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The goliath birdeater is the heaviest spider on Earth, with a leg span the size of a dinner plate

By BeckhamLangford

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The saltwater crocodile is the largest living reptile and can outweigh a small car

By BeckhamLangford

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10 of the largest dinosaurs that ever walked the Earth

By BeckhamLangford

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The axolotl can regrow its legs, its spinal cord and even parts of its brain

By BeckhamLangford

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The wandering albatross spreads the longest wings of any living bird, stretching up to eleven feet

By BeckhamLangford

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A tardigrade can survive being frozen, boiled and blasted with radiation in the vacuum of space

By BeckhamLangford

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Greenland sharks can live more than 400 years, making them the longest-lived vertebrates on Earth

By BeckhamLangford

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The immortal jellyfish can rewind its own body to a younger stage and start life over

By BeckhamLangford

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The box jellyfish carries enough venom to stop a human heart in minutes and sees through 24 eyes

By BeckhamLangford

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An Ice Age spadefoot toad sat unnoticed in the La Brea Tar Pits collection for decades

By BeckhamLangford

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A secretary bird kills venomous snakes by stomping with five times its own body weight

By BeckhamLangford

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The archerfish downs insects by spitting a precise jet of water from below the surface

By BeckhamLangford

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A Komodo dragon’s bite delivers venom that keeps its prey’s blood from clotting

By BeckhamLangford

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A platypus hunts with electric sensors in its bill, and the males carry venom in their heels

By BeckhamLangford

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A lyrebird can flawlessly mimic chainsaws, camera shutters and a dozen other birds

By BeckhamLangford

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An electric eel can slam prey with 860 volts, enough to knock a grown adult off their feet

By BeckhamLangford

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The naked mole rat lives about 30 years and almost never gets cancer

By BeckhamLangford

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A sailfish can tear through the ocean at nearly 68 miles an hour, the fastest fish alive

By Cassian Holt

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The mimic octopus can impersonate a sea snake, a lionfish and a flatfish at will

By BeckhamLangford

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The wood frog freezes almost solid every winter, then thaws back to life in spring

By BeckhamLangford

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