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Crayfish battles - Fool your enemy

featured Crayfish battles - Fool your enemy

Two Aussie guys battle it out; Credit: Anthony O'Toole The slender crayfish (Cherax dispar) is an Australian freshwater crustacean which loves to nip off your finger if you'll let it....

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The brown bear uses tools for a scrub down

The brown bear uses tools for a scrub down

Brown bear via Shutterstock In Alaska, the bears and the humans have to learn fast. While primates and other animals have been shown using tools, just like humans, bears have...

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Stinging Cells in Eyeless Hydra React to Light

Stinging Cells in Eyeless Hydra React to Light

Beautiful photomicrography, illustrating Hydra magnipapillata's tentacle bulbs. Neurons, including cnidocytes, are stained red and nuclei are stained blue. Musculature is shown in green; Credit: BMC Biology The Cnidarian, Hydra is...

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No Leopard like a Snow Leopard

No Leopard like a Snow Leopard

Panther uncia, the snow leopard as it is normally viewed; far on yonder ridge; Credit: Shutterstock No matter how often they go out in the mountains, people never quite get...

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Bottlenose dolphins whistle hello

Bottlenose dolphins whistle hello

Two bottlenose dolphins via Shutterstock If you whistle at the cat or dog (or humans) when you return home, then you are giving a unique signature whistle as an introduction....

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King Penguins Bravely Head South

King Penguins Bravely Head South

King penguin diving at Crozet Island; Credit: © Jean-Baptiste Pons The foraging of penguins further towards the South Pole has been continuing for thirty years. As ecologists struggle to predict...

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Fossil from prehistoric penguin as tall as humans

Fossil from prehistoric penguin as tall as humans

Kairuku penguins come ashore, passing a stranded Waipatia dolphin; Artwork by Chris Gaskin, owner and copyright owner: Geology Museum, University of Otago Scientists have unveiled details about a fossil of...

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Fungal infection kills rare rattlesnakes

Fungal infection kills rare rattlesnakes

Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake (Sistrurus catenatus catenatus); Credit: Shutterstock A rare fungal infection is providing an additional threat to endangered rattlesnakes. A small number of eastern Massasauga rattlesnakes that are in...

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Discovery of New Legless Amphibians

Discovery of New Legless Amphibians

About to hatch into miniature-adult caecilian Amphibia - the eggs that don't become tadpoles; Credit: © S. D. Biju The caecilians are amazing. In freshwater or in a tropical forest,...

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