Plus, a 'hybrid' songbird is discovered
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| | Forget the Mona Lisa. Leonardo da Vinci’s biggest contributions came from his precise notebook, from advances in human anatomy (above) and architecture to the possibilities of human flight.
“There are few modern inventions that weren’t inspired by Leonardo, including the parachute, the mirror-grinding machine, a pair of scissors, portable bridges, the mitre lock (still used on canals), and the spring drive (mostly used in toys),” Nat Geo History reports. “Some say he even designed the first robot.”
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| | Da Vinci on flight: He produced over 35,000 words and 500 sketches on flying machines. Above, a design for one type of primitive plane, known as an ornithopter. Read more.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY OLIVER MECKES AND NICOLE OTTOWA | | | |
| | The (sea) lion sleeps tonight: On the Galápagos Islands, this image, posted to our Instagram page, is a common sight. Galápagos sea lions (Zalophus wollebaeki) often snooze on docks and waterside benches. A recent Nat Geo story examines how sea lion moms raise their pups. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY KIANA HAYERI | | A year later: As the Taliban approached her northern Afghan city last August, Hafiza Omari was sleepless, pacing her courtyard at night, worried about her sons, who were fighting each other in the nation’s civil war. This photo of the 71-year-old Omari then was featured among the best images of 2021; now photographer Kiana Hayeri has returned to see how she had adjusted a year after the Taliban took power and the United States left Afghanistan. See her report.
Related: Other images from our 2021 Year in Pictures
A 2,000-mile ride through a wildly changing Afghanistan
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 | | PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOEL SARTORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO ARK | | | This plus that: The songbird’s cheerful “chick burr” call sounded like the elusive scarlet tanager (at right). But it looked like a rose-breasted grosbeak (left). An ornithologist collected a small blood sample from the bird and discovered—voila!—it was both tanager AND grosbeak. The discovery raises the question of how many other “hybrid” birds are out there, Nat Geo reports. The images above are by Nat Geo photographer and Explorer Joel Sartore. | | | |
| This newsletter was curated and edited by David Beard, Jen Tse, Heather Kim, Anne Kim-Dannibale, and Allie Yang. Have you run into a “hybrid” bird on your travels, like the birders in today’s story above? Let us know at david.beard@natgeo.com. And if you missed yesterday’s newsletter, here it is. Thanks for reading! | |
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