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Animals
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A tiny deep-sea shark uses deceptive bioluminescence and vacuum lips to gouge circular bites out of ocean giants.
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.
Biology
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The bile pigment biliverdin dyes their muscles, bones, and tongue, turning a lethal waste product into an unusual cellular shield.
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.
Animals
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It has 22 hypersensitive tentacles with which it identifies and devours prey in less than two-tenths of a second.
Animals
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Far from delivering blind shocks, this fish emits calibrated pulses that force victims to reveal their hiding spots and takes control of their neurons.
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 unusual behavior of birds of prey that carry burning twigs to ignite new fire fronts and flush out prey.
Nature
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The incredible sleep resistance of the tallest mammal
Nature
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Surprising athletic abilities of flightless birds
Nature
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These echinoderms can regenerate entire limbs and even split in two
Nature
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With sonic pulses reaching 236 decibels underwater, sperm whales use the spermaceti organ as an acoustic cannon capable of stunning prey and vibrating living tissue.