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A fungus in Oregon is a single organism sprawling across 3.5 square miles

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

A lyrebird can perfectly mimic chainsaws, car alarms and other birds

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Animals

The wandering albatross glides for hours on 11-foot wings without flapping

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A sailfish can swim faster than a cheetah can run

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An octopus has three hearts and blood that runs blue

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Animals

A cheetah can out-accelerate almost any supercar off the line

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A colossal squid’s eyeball is bigger than a basketball

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The olm can survive a century in total darkness deep inside caves

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9 of the deadliest animals to humans by yearly death toll

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Animals

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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