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Unusual Hobbies to Try With What You Already Have
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Use this unusual hobbies list when you want a first project you can finish before buying a kit. Sketch a sound map, try a one-page zine, or see how many clouds you can recognize from the same...
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Birds With Spectacular Courtship Displays
Birds With Spectacular Courtship Displays
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A manakin makes music with its wings. A bowerbird arranges stones so they look different from a visitor’s point of view. A pair of grebes rises breast to breast with weeds in their bills. Watch...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Toys From the ’90s That Transform
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Toys From the ’90s That Transform
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These original Playmates toys could turn a pet turtle into a ninja, a reporter into a feline mutant, or a giant turtle head into a miniature sewer. Start with the best-known Mutations, then work...
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Herding Breeds and the Work They Were Bred to Do
Herding Breeds and the Work They Were Bred to Do
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Every herding breed was shaped by a particular job: gathering ewes off a Welsh hillside, nipping the heels of cattle on an Australian run, or standing as a living fence around an unfenced French...
Animals
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Funny Road Signs and Place Name Signs
Funny Road Signs and Place Name Signs
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Real signs, standing where they were put: town limits, station platforms and wildlife warnings that make drivers pull over for a photo. Every one is a permanent sign photographed in place, with no...
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Weird Extinct Animals and the Fossils That Explain Their Shapes
Weird Extinct Animals and the Fossils That Explain Their Shapes
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Fossils preserve things as strange as a five-eyed swimmer, a spiral of sharklike teeth, and a whale with hind feet. These animals span the early seas and the age of mammals. Look for the clue in...
Animals
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Real Hybrid Animals, From Mules to Ligers
Real Hybrid Animals, From Mules to Ligers
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A hybrid is what you get when two different species breed, sometimes because people arranged it and sometimes because nature did. Every animal here is a documented hybrid: each entry names the...
Animals
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Rare Dog Breeds From Around the World
Rare Dog Breeds From Around the World
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Uncommon breeds with a written standard and a stable breeding population, most of them kept for a real job: hunting puffins on Norwegian cliffs, guarding camps in the Sahel, driving cattle in...
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Weird Australian Animals and the Features That Make Them Unusual
Weird Australian Animals and the Features That Make Them Unusual
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The platypus and echidna are only the beginning. Australia also has a frog that holds water underground, a fish that walks on the seafloor, and a bird that builds a display around blue objects...
Animals
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Terrier Breeds and Their Very Different Personalities
Terrier Breeds and Their Very Different Personalities
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Terriers share a job description, not a personality. Every breed here was made to go after vermin or quarry, which is why most of them dig, chase and answer back, yet a Bedlington and a...
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Animals That Mimic Other Animals
Animals That Mimic Other Animals
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Some animals survive by pretending to be a different animal. A harmless fly dresses as a stinging wasp, a snake copies the warning colors of a venomous one, a hawk flies with vultures so its prey...
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Individual Animals That Made Scientific History
Individual Animals That Made Scientific History
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Clever Hans tapped his hoof, Betty bent a piece of wire, and a bar-tailed godwit called E7 kept flying across the Pacific. Each case changed what scientists could say about animals, sometimes by...
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Ancient Dog Breeds With Long Documented Histories
Ancient Dog Breeds With Long Documented Histories
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Plenty of breeds claim to have trotted beside pharaohs. Far fewer can show it. This list keeps to breeds whose old lineage is backed by evidence: genome studies that place them outside the big...
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Heritage Farm Breeds at Risk of Disappearing
Heritage Farm Breeds at Risk of Disappearing
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Old farm breeds carry centuries of local know-how: cows linked to a particular cheese, pigs nicknamed for the orchards and cottages where they were kept, sheep that lived wild on an island. Once a...
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