We use our cameras mostly to take pet photos and selfies now, but cameras (and adjacent technology used to capture a snapshots of something in time) have given us so much more than social media likes. Redditor u/juzz85 wanted to know more about some of the most outlandish discoveries humanity has ever made with the help of some extra equipment, and the Ask Reddit community has some good 'ness.

What's known to exist only because it was caught on camera?
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Roughly 2,000 comments later, we've picked through them to collect our favorite strange finds. Let's learn.

All we had to do to find these ancient ruins is invent the friggin' airplane

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Weird fish prove that it truly is better down where it's wetter

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A distinct lightning phenomenon was unknown for almost all of human history

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You think you've seen a big tree, but you probably have not had the chance

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We didn't really understand how horses run until we got a better look

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Animals are just good at hiding sometimes — they're not always extinct just because we don't see them

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Ancient Egyptians were really good at hiding chambers, it turns out

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Ocean waves can get so much bigger than you can imagine

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