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8 animals that navigate with Earth’s magnetic field when maps cannot help

By BeckhamLangford

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8 animals that weaponize electricity to hunt or defend themselves

By BeckhamLangford

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8 animals that can freeze solid and wake up alive

By BeckhamLangford

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8 living fossils that have barely changed since the age of the dinosaurs

By BeckhamLangford

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9 venomous animals that can turn up in American backyards

By BeckhamLangford

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10 national parks where the wildlife can actually kill you, from Kruger’s lions to Komodo’s dragons

By Alexander Clark

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11 of the most venomous animals on Earth, from the box jellyfish to the inland taipan

By Alexander Clark

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The longest animal ever measured is a beach worm that can stretch past 50 metres

By BeckhamLangford

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A honey fungus in Oregon covers four square miles as one connected organism

By BeckhamLangford

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Europe’s vipers evolved their venom to kill prey, not to fend off attackers

By BeckhamLangford

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Researchers pinned down how a brown recluse spider’s venom destroys human cells

By BeckhamLangford

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A snail scooped from nearly six kilometres down is the deepest limpet ever recorded

By BeckhamLangford

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Wild chimpanzees have pelted the same trees with rocks for over a decade, and no one knows why

By BeckhamLangford

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DNA from century-old museum jars revealed seven new frog species hiding in Madagascar

By BeckhamLangford

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Two humpback whales crossed between Australia and Brazil, a record 15,000-kilometre swim

By BeckhamLangford

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An animal smaller than a grain of sand survives vacuum, radiation and near-absolute zero

By BeckhamLangford

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A single bird flies from the Arctic to Antarctica and back every year

By BeckhamLangford

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Surgeons saved a zoo monkey’s foot from amputation, and months later she gave birth

By BeckhamLangford

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Snake embryos coil inside the egg because of a structure nobody had noticed

By BeckhamLangford

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Bonnethead sharks get rounder snouts as they age, not pointier

By BeckhamLangford

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