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A Komodo dragon walking across a dry Indonesian landscape repeatedly does something that looks almost snake-like. Its long yellow tongue shoots from its mouth, splits into two narrow tips, then …
A fruit tree does not have to spread into a broad, rounded canopy. With careful pruning and training, you can persuade its branches to grow in an almost two-dimensional pattern …
A bull moose walks through a northern forest carrying something extraordinary above its head: a huge structure made of bone that its body built in only a matter of months. …
A vulture drops from a wide circle in the sky and lands beside the remains of a dead animal. To us, the meal may look like something to avoid. As …
The reason why birds fly in a V formation is much stranger than simply staying together. Every bird creates an invisible trail of swirling air behind its wings. A bird …
A simple drip irrigation system can turn daily hand-watering into a mostly automatic routine without requiring professional plumbing. Instead of spraying an entire bed, drip irrigation moves water slowly through …
Bright orange, yellow, and red nasturtium flowers may look purely ornamental, but these fast-growing annuals can play a useful role in vegetable-garden pest management. Used correctly, nasturtium trap crop pest …
An electric eel does not carry a miniature battery inside its body. Instead, electric eel voltage is produced by thousands of specialized biological cells working together with extraordinary precision. Each …
You do not need rich garden soil, a permanent raised bed, or even a traditional backyard plot to grow vegetables successfully. Straw bale gardening turns an ordinary bale of straw …
At first glance, a narwhal seems to be carrying a horn straight out of mythology. But that long spiral structure is neither a horn nor an antler. It is an …