Science and reality
The Asian giant hornet is like a modern winged T. rex, decapitating honey bees dozens at a time.
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This is the saga of bowerbird hanky-panky, a romance packed with more lies, illusions, and thievery than a soap opera—with none of the insufferable soft focus.
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Solenodons are one of just a handful of mammals with venom glands that deliver a powerful toxin.
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The stargazer spends its entire life looking like it just walked in on something...unseemly.
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The beautiful bearded vulture feeds almost exclusively on skeletal fragments.
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Figs play host to a battle between two remarkable insects: a pollinator wasp and its enemy, a parasitic wasp with a metal-reinforced drill for a bum.
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May I introduce the charming, fantastically camouflaged pygmy seahorse.
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Welcome to Harlequin Beetle Airlines, where the skies aren’t so much friendly as they are sexually awkward.
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True to its name, the mimic octopus impersonates a variety of other animals on the fly, morphing from an octopus to a banded sole to a lionfish to a sea snake.
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Whatever your epicurean exploits were yesterday, you ain’t got nothin’ on the gluttony going on in the animal kingdom.
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