Tending to a bonsai tree is a time consuming and painstaking process at the best of time.

But imagine combining that arduous and complex task with building scale models of windmills, lighthouses and even the Michelin Man.

Well imagine no more because one Japanese artist has done just that with these bizarre but fascinating miniature sculptures molded around bonsai trees.

They look like monsters from another planet. But far from inhabiting some alien world light-years from ours, these frightening looking creatures exist at the bottom of Earth’s deepest oceans. Astonishing new pictures of Polychaetes, or scale worms, show how they have evolved to survive the intense pressures more than 1,000 meters below the water’s surface, where the sun’s rays never penetrate.And it is hoped discoveries from this region could help shed light on the possibility of life existing on other planets
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