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Animals
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How a tiny crustacean creates cavitation bubbles that collapse releasing temperatures close to the Sun's and a deafening sound.
Nature
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In ocean depths, this marine animal synthesizes a silica skeleton that outperforms human engineering and hosts an unusual lifelong symbiosis.
Biology
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It is the only known organism in the entire animal kingdom capable of functionally replacing a complete organ of its host.
Nature
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How Malacosteus niger broke the rules of the deep ocean by developing night vision that its prey cannot see
Nature
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The fascinating secret behind nature's most iconic color
Biology
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It injects a handful of cells into its host's joint, chemically castrates it, and reprograms its behavior to turn it into a surrogate mother.
Animals
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The tiny marine creature whose claw creates cavitation bubbles that collapse at over 4,700 °C and exceed 210 decibels.
Animals
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Equipped with a bioelectric radar of 100,000 receptors, venomous spurs, and biofluorescent fur, this mammal defies the laws of biology.
Nature
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The only known organism capable of biologically and functionally replacing an entire organ in a vertebrate animal.
Nature
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Surprising anatomy of these small marine crustaceans
Animals
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How the tiny Sapphirina copepod uses nanoscopic crystals to switch between a brilliant glow and complete transparency.
Nature
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A simultaneous dual vision that defies optical physics to outsmart predators