This spring on the East Coast, after 17 years in reclusion, cicadas are making their way back into the spotlight.

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A bull shark to be exact.

The “cocktail garden” is our new favorite type of garden.

Peep the book The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World’s Great Drinks here

Meet the Peacock Spider. Native to southeastern Australia and damn attractive to the females on that ‘bird of paradise’ level.

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Science.

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Brazilian Birds radio transports you right into the rainforest. Keep it on all day for full effect.

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Here to stay, more frequent, lasting longer.

A dolphin posse spanning 35 square miles was spotted hanging out near San Diego last Thursday.

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One bite from the lone star tick could make you allergic to red meat.

The South American flower that is known to locals as “Hooker Lips.”

A nice print by Jeff Canham

The Squid Hunter by David Grann

Just one of those outstanding, beautiful nature videos that we keep seeing everywhere.

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Monty Python’s “The Universe Song” used cleverly in a promo of BBC Two’s Wonders of Life.

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Peaceful, isn’t it? A “motion control time lapse of the enchanted California coastal Redwoods.”

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All about Ralph Steadman’s drawings of extinct birds this morning.

A Spider web weaving timelapse

Primate and tiger cub photographed during the National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution Expedition to the Dutch East Indies, 1937.

Whoops.

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