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Felicette prepares for liftoff.

The First Cat in Space Deserves a Memorial

And if all goes well, she's finally going to get one.

Cara Giaimo November 27, 2017

Spinach leaves topped with bonito flakes.

Bonito Flakes

Some fish can dance.

Puffins on Heimaey.

Heimaey, Iceland

World's Largest Puffin Colony

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

Uniformly chopped dog bones from Krasnosamarskoe.

Found: Archaeological Evidence of Bronze Age Lupine Initiation Rituals

Dog sacrifice, lawless war-bands, and coming of age on the Russian steppes.

Vittoria Traverso November 21, 2017

Scrub jays, among other birds, like to rub themselves with ants.

Birds Rub Ants on Themselves, and No One Knows Exactly Why

It's called "anting," and it is weird.

Eric Grundhauser November 21, 2017

Ostrich feeding.

Picacho, Arizona

Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

Kingsland Wildflowers.

Brooklyn, New York

Kingsland Wildflowers

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

Alan Tennyson holds more than 20 fossilized kakapo beaks. Just 154 of the birds are alive today.

The Pit of Death That Holds the History of New Zealand's Flightless Birds

A natural trap that became a grave for thousands of avians.

Natasha Frost November 17, 2017

Tombili.

Istanbul, Turkey

Tombili

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

Puffins at Látrabjarg.

Látrabjarg

Puffin enthusiasts flock to Europe's largest seabird cliff, which over one million birds call home.

A ferocious tiny dancer.

Male Mangrove Crabs Have a Taunting Victory Dance

These moves put the "man" in "mangrove crab."

Natasha Frost November 13, 2017

An overgrown sunken road/green way in Symondsbury, Dorset.

North Chideock, England

Holloways of Dorset

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

Fake ortolan, shown in a traditional presentation, sculpted by Janice Poon for the TV show "Hannibal."

Ortolan Bunting

A cruel cooking method turns this tiny songbird into a rare delicacy.

An artist's rendering of <em>Siamogale melilutra</em>, a giant prehistoric otter with a surprisingly powerful bite.

Meet the Rottweiler-Sized Prehistoric Otter With Teeth That Could Crunch Bone

Can an apex predator be cuddly?

Natasha Frost November 9, 2017

Camels.

Madinat Zayed, United Arab Emirates

Million Street

Every December, this stretch of dusty desert road transforms into a catwalk for a camel beauty pageant.

The new peacock hutch.

New York, New York

Cathedral Peacock Hutch

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

A Puerto Rican parrot in El Yunque Forest's Iguaca Aviary, during greener times.

Among Puerto Rico's Displaced Residents, an Entire Flock of Endangered Parrots

Still, the island's animal conservationists have no intention of giving up.

Cara Giaimo November 8, 2017

The beaver dam as viewed from a helicopter.

Improvement District No. 24, Alberta

World's Largest Beaver Dam

The half-mile long structure is so impressive, it even shows up on satellite images.