Deep Sea Animals With Terrifying Adaptations
Crushing pressure, freezing cold, and total darkness have pushed deep-sea animals toward some of the strangest survival adaptations on Earth. Here are some of the most extreme.
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Deep Sea Animals With Terrifying Adaptations
Crushing pressure, freezing cold, and total darkness have pushed deep-sea animals toward some of the strangest survival adaptations on Earth. Here are some of the most extreme.
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The Science Behind Animal Camouflage
From color-changing skin cells to light-bending crystals, camouflage in the animal kingdom relies on some genuinely different biological mechanisms depending on the species. Here's how it actually works.
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Animals Found Only in One Place on Earth
The aye-aye exists only in Madagascar, and the vaquita exists only in one stretch of Mexican coastline. Here's why some animals evolve to live nowhere else on the planet, and why that makes them so vulnerable.
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Animals That Glow in the Dark Naturally
From fireflies lighting up summer evenings to anglerfish hunting a thousand metres underwater, these animals produce their own light using nothing but chemistry. Here's how, and why.
Animals That Can Regrow Their Body Parts
Starfish can regrow an entire body from a single severed arm, and axolotls can rebuild whole limbs without scarring. Here's a look at nature's most capable regenerators, and how each one pulls it off.
Animals That Look Fake But Are Completely Real
From a sea slug that looks like a Pokémon to a bird that looks like a shoe, these animals seem too strange to be real, but every one of them is a genuine, documented species.
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The Animal That Can Survive Being Frozen Solid
The wood frog spends up to seven months a year completely frozen, with its heart stopped and most of its body turned to ice. Here's how it thaws out again every spring.
The Snail With an Iron Shell That Survives Volcanoes
The scaly-foot snail builds its shell out of actual iron and lives beside boiling volcanic vents nearly 2,000 metres underwater. Here's how it survives conditions that would kill almost anything else.
What Animal Has the Strongest Bite Force?
Saltwater crocodiles hold the record for the strongest bite force ever directly measured in a living animal. Here's how scientists measured it, and how it stacks up against lions, hippos, and great whites.