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Steve is a powerhouse on both WebUrbanist and WebEcoist, writing off-the-wall content designed to entertain and inspire the inner world traveler and thrill-seeker buried within all of us.

Leaf Beyond Belief: 11 Tree-mendous Examples Of Topiary Art

These 11 tree-mendous topiaries may look “bush league” but you'd better be-leaf creating them takes mad botanical skills rooted in a love for landscape art.

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Fin Day For A Stroll: Seven Amazing Walking Fish

A fish out of water? In my environment? It's more likely than you think, as these 7 amazing walking fish gladly step forward to show.

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Berry Nice! 12 Amazing, Odd & Unusual Fruits

Fruits are available in many more varieties than ever before, some of them decidedly odd. Are you up for strange fruit? Here are a dozen, ripe for the picking.

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Stoned Souls: Bizarre Human-Shaped Rocks Sculpted By Nature

Pareidolia - seeing human features where they don't actually exist - raises its head when we observe bizarre human-shaped rocks like the examples depicted here.

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Armed To The Teeth: Africa's Terrifying Goliath Tigerfish

Armed to the gills with 32 razor-sharp teeth, the Goliath Tigerfish may be the most fearsome fish you'll ever see - just hope it doesn't see you first!

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Hot For A Cause: Activist Art Using Massed Candles

Art For Earth's candle-powered installations delineate powerful political or environmental messages across the globe in gently wavering, softly glowing light.

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Fan-Tastic! 10 Cool Colorful Wind Turbine Designs

These 10 cool colorful wind turbines artfully illustrate how adding a little color to wind farms could attract "fans", repel bugs, and save bats & birds.

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Wave Goodbye: 10 Of The World's Worst Toxic Floods

The recent red deluge of alkaline sludge in Hungary is only the latest in a long series of toxic floods that have destroyed land, lives and livelihoods.

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Life Sucks: 10 Amazing Animal Vampires

Was Dracula onto something? Like the no-account count, these 10 bloodsucking animal vampires take their nourishment from a different vein... maybe one of yours!

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Brush Your Beak: 10 Amazing Birds With Teeth

Do birds have teeth? No... and yes! When one stretches the definitions of what makes a bird or a tooth, birds with teeth aren't absolutely impossible anymore.

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Honking Their Horn: 10 Amazing Real Unicorns

Where are the REAL unicorns - you know, the one-horned variety? These 10 amazing real unicorns show that staying single can be something special.

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Hard Woods: 10 Amazing Petrified Forests

Petrified forests: these beautifully colored remnants of long-vanished landscapes are important links to the world as it was many millions of years ago.

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Deadwood: 30 Scary, Creepy & Bizarre Trees

Trees can be beautiful and majestic, but these 30 scary trees show nature's other, darker side.. and you'd better hope their bark is worse than their bite!

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Lost & Cast Away: Ten Amazing Uninhabited Islands

Scattered like verdant pearls from sea to shining sea, these ten amazing uninhabited islands offer a glimpse of primeval Eden far from the madding crowd.

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Outtasight! The 10 Most Amazing Eyeless Animals

Seeing is believing? Not so fast - these 10 amazing animals don't waste precious resources growing eyes. Why bother when vision is unnecessary; even impossible.

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Animal Metallicism: 10 Amazing Golden Creatures

Got the gold bug? These rare and beautiful creatures share a common bond: a warm, golden glow that gives them the look of exquisite, living treasures.

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Coprolites: A Few Words On Prehistoric Turds

Coprolites are fossilized poop. Though time-worn and (thankfully) odorless, coprolites can still tell us much about the creatures who excreted them so long ago.

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Fuel's Gold: 10 More Unusual Alternative Energy Sources

Mankind's continuing quest for energy has sparked alternative options that may seem odd and impractical today, but could someday become quite commonplace.

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That Sinking Feeling: The Top 10 Drained Lakes

This look at 10 drained lakes of the past and present shows what happens when Mother Nature - or the errant hand of Man - decides to pull the plug.

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Hail And Hailstones: A Cold Hard Rain's Gonna Fall

Bob Dylan wasn't referencing hail when he wrote "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" but truth be told, hail is as hard as rain can get.

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