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9 of the deadliest animals to humans by yearly death toll

By BeckhamLangford

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A fish once known only from fossils turned up alive in a fisherman’s net

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

Drugmakers still drain the blue blood of horseshoe crabs to keep vaccines safe

By BeckhamLangford

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Scientists cataloging an unexplored African plateau logged 60 new moths and eight new dragonflies

By BeckhamLangford

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A male platypus hides venomous spurs strong enough to drop a dog

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

A slippery eel-shaped fish can smother a shark in choking slime within seconds

By BeckhamLangford

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A diving falcon becomes the fastest animal alive, topping 240 miles an hour

By BeckhamLangford

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A vampire bat will share a meal of blood to keep a starving neighbor alive

By BeckhamLangford

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A fearless badger shrugs off cobra venom and swarms of stinging bees alike

By BeckhamLangford

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The colossal squid has eyes the size of dinner plates to spot danger in the deep

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

A salamander that never grows up can regrow its legs, heart, and parts of its brain

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

A wrinkled underground rodent almost never gets cancer and shrugs off acid

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

A frog freezes solid every winter, heart stopped, then thaws back to life in spring

By BeckhamLangford

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A beetle sprays boiling chemicals from its rear to blast away attackers

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

Tardigrades survived the raw vacuum of open space and came back to life once they were rehydrated

By Alexander Clark

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A Greenland shark alive in the Arctic today may have been born before the United States existed

By Alexander Clark

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The vampire squid survives in oxygen so thin almost nothing else can

By Alexander Clark

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The Sydney funnel-web spider has fangs that can punch through a fingernail

By Alexander Clark

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13 eerie deep-sea creatures caught on camera

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

Two humpback whales stunned scientists by crossing 14,000 kilometers between Australia and Brazil

By BeckhamLangford

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