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Animals
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A cutting-edge study revealed that this amphibian stores up to ninety percent of its red blood cells in a mirror sac to become invisible while sleeping.
Animals
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Discover how this unusual inhabitant of polar seas defied the laws of animal biology by surviving without red blood cells thanks to a giant heart and natural antifreeze.
Nature
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Extraordinary adaptations for desert survival
Animals
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In the ocean depths, males attach to females until their circulatory systems fuse and they lose their own vital organs.
Health and wellness
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How a colony of microorganisms in your mouth turns vegetables into nitric oxide, the essential vasodilator for your arteries.
Health and wellness
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How low temperatures activate an ancestral molecular mechanism capable of repairing synapses and halting cognitive decline.
Nature
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Surprising anatomy of these small marine crustaceans
Nature
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In frigid polar waters, a marine species has evolved to survive without hemoglobin, using antifreeze proteins and a revolutionary metabolism.
Nature
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In depths where sunlight never reaches, a strange marine creature has developed one of the animal kingdom's most astonishing survival and reproduction strategies.