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Recycle Wine Corks into Adorable Creatures with 'Corkers'

A set of push-pins in various animal parts like antlers, ears and limbs lets you recycle wine corks into cute creatures, and provides entertainment at the table.

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Spine Tingling: Meet Pikaia, Our Earliest Ancestor!

The earliest ancestor of all vertebrates (including us) appears to have been Pikaia Gracilens, a tiny, worm-like creature just 2 inches long.

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Fire Away: 7 Amazing Animal Dragons

2012 is the Year of the Dragon according to the Chinese zodiac and the dragon is the only one of the 12 animals to be wholly mythical... or is it?

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Honey I'm Home! Urban Beehives For Sweet City Living

Catch a buzz? These 7 bee-friendly urban beehives are ideal for anyone who wants to invite a little urban wildlife into their nature-challenged neighborhood.

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Crawl Spaces: 10 Amazing Ant Farms Fit For A Queen

These 10 amazing ant farms combine the best features of aquariums, art, furniture and pets in a low-maintenance, eco-friendly, educational medium.

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Title Recall: 10 Creatures with Doubly Descriptive Names

An abundance of animals bear the burden of doubly descriptive names. An identity crisis in the making? The animals aren't saying so it's up to us to decide.

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Encore! 10 Extinct Lifeforms Worth Resurrecting

These 10 extinct species are certainly gone but they're not forgotten, and they may not even be gone for good if biological technology continues to advance.

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Flame On! 10 Amazing Orange Animals

These 10 amazing orange animals seek neither tricks nor treats. Instead, their intense autumnal hues may serve as warning signs; a wish merely to be left alone.

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Hot Licks: The World's 10 Most Amazing Anteaters

Anteaters are Nature's “termite terminators”, and these bizarre creatures have perfected the art of ant-eating to such a fine degree they can eat little else.

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Lilliputian Landscapes: Paper Sculptures in Mini Bottles

A Tokyo artist uses his architectural model making skills to create these gorgeous miniature sculptures in tiny glass bottles.

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Call To The Wild: 7 Amazing Animal Whisperers

The 7 amazing animal whisperers profiled here practice a kinder, gentler form of inter-species communication with thousands of years of history to back it up.

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Windows On The Past: 7 Amazing Creatures Preserved In Amber

Amber (fossil tree sap) can contain prehistoric insects, crustaceans, frogs and lizards, preserved in exquisite detail and all many millions of years old.

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Plastic Fantastic: Cracking Art Group Colors Our World

Cracking Art Group's ethically responsible approach to ambient art involves creating outsized animal assemblages expressed in colorful recycled plastic.

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Blushing Hides: 10 Amazing Pink Animals

These 10 amazing animals are in the pink and they're not afraid to show it. Pink pigmentation isn't common in the animal kingdom but it IS uncommonly beautiful.

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Ethereal Colors Turn Animals of Science Into Modern Art

An artist injects the bodies of small animals with dyes to create tiny works of art that art part science and entirely fascinating.

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