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Its epidermis features a network of capillary microchannels that pump moisture from sand to its mouth without moving a single muscle.
Animals
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Able to shut down its metabolism and breathe air, this living fossil can wait for rain for more than five years in an underground cocoon.
Animals
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Its internal combustion chamber mixes explosive reactants and ejects them in ultrasonic bursts without burning its own abdomen.
Nature
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On the remote Darwin and Wolf islands, this small bird pecks at huge sea boobies to feed on their blood without facing resistance.
Nature
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A sophisticated cryoprotective shield of glucose and urea allows it to survive the Alaskan winter turned into a real block of ice.
Animals
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The unusual bone that wraps around its head like a seatbelt and defies the laws of head trauma
Nature
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How a tiny insect mixes chemical reactants in an internal armored chamber to repel predators with boiling explosions.
Animals
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How this small bird defies biological fatigue by eating, mating, and sleeping in midair.
Nature
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Able to identify and devour prey in less than a quarter of a second, this mammal has the densest sense of touch in the animal kingdom.
Nature
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A simultaneous dual vision that defies optical physics to outsmart predators
Nature
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Discover how the peculiar structure of their feathers allows these birds to hunt in absolute silence, defying the laws of conventional aerodynamics.
Nature
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Discover how this tiny blind mammal maps its world and devours prey in milliseconds using its incredible supersensory nose.