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Extraordinary Animal Senses and How They Work

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Animals That Use Camouflage to Hide in Plain Sight
Animals That Use Camouflage to Hide in Plain Sight
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Common cuttlefish
Some animals hide by matching their background. Others pass themselves off as a dead leaf, a twig or a lump of coral, break up their outline with bold patterns, switch color on the spot, change...
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Butterflies and Moths With Striking Wings
Butterflies and Moths With Striking Wings
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Monarch butterfly
Look at the wings first. A glasswing’s clear panels let the background show through, an owl butterfly wears an eyespot on the underside, and a luna moth trails long green tails. Open-wing views...
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Animals That Make Weird Noises and How They Do It
Animals That Make Weird Noises and How They Do It
by list_wrangler  • 
In common: Western diamondback rattlesnake
A bird sounds like a pump, a fish hums through the night, and a shrimp snaps so fast it creates a bubble. Bowed feathers, vibrating tail segments, and the voices of some surprisingly loud animals...
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Weird-Looking Animals and Why They Look That Way
Weird-Looking Animals and Why They Look That Way
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Platypus
A nose ringed with 22 fleshy fingers, tusks that grow up through the face, a beak shaped like a wooden clog. Every animal here looks strange for a reason, and once you know the job a feature does...
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Animal Mothers With Extraordinary Devotion
Animal Mothers With Extraordinary Devotion
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: African bush elephant
From an octopus that guards her eggs for four and a half years to a spider whose young eat her, these are mothers whose care for their offspring goes far beyond the ordinary. Each entry describes...
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Weird Extinct Animals and the Fossils That Explain Their Shapes
Weird Extinct Animals and the Fossils That Explain Their Shapes
by list_wrangler  • 
On a similar theme
Fossils preserve things as strange as a five-eyed swimmer, a spiral of sharklike teeth, and a whale with hind feet. These animals span the early seas and the age of mammals. Look for the clue in...
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Remarkable Ways Animals Communicate
Remarkable Ways Animals Communicate
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: African bush elephant
Animals pass information to one another through dances, flashes, whistles and rumbles, and a handful of those signals have been tested closely enough that researchers can say what they carry. Each...
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The Largest Animals That Ever Lived
The Largest Animals That Ever Lived
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: African bush elephant
The biggest animals of all time, living and extinct, group by group: the largest whale, marine reptile, dinosaur, shark, bony fish, land mammal, ape, crocodile, snake, flier, bird, squid...
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Animals With Weird Noses and What They Do With Them
Animals With Weird Noses and What They Do With Them
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: African bush elephant
A mole feels its way with a star-shaped nose, a bat steers sound through a horseshoe-shaped leaf, and a turtle breathes through a snout that works like a snorkel. These animals put their noses and...
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Weird Australian Animals and the Features That Make Them Unusual
Weird Australian Animals and the Features That Make Them Unusual
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Platypus
The platypus and echidna are only the beginning. Australia also has a frog that holds water underground, a fish that walks on the seafloor, and a bird that builds a display around blue objects...
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Forgotten ’90s Toys You Can Recognize From One Odd Detail
Forgotten ’90s Toys You Can Recognize From One Odd Detail
by curious_compiler  • 
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A tiny dollhouse in a compact, a cassette recorder that could change your voice, and a plastic ring that counted your jumps could all turn up in the same toy aisle. Look for the detail that made...
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Animals That Can Regrow Lost Body Parts
Animals That Can Regrow Lost Body Parts
by curious_compiler  • 
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An axolotl can rebuild a limb. A green anole can replace its tail, but the new one is built differently. And a loose arm can become a whole sea star in some species. Compare what these animals can...
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Weird Animals of the Rainforest and How They Get By
Weird Animals of the Rainforest and How They Get By
by curious_compiler  • 
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A bat turns a leaf into a tent, a frog drops out of its egg before a predator can eat it, and an ant steers back to its tree after falling from a branch. These animals show how life in tropical...
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Seabirds Worth Knowing, From Albatrosses to Puffins
Seabirds Worth Knowing, From Albatrosses to Puffins
by curious_compiler  • 
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These birds make a living at sea in very different ways. Some dive with folded wings, some glide for miles without flapping, and one looks as if it can walk on the water. Each entry gives you...
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Bioluminescent Animals That Glow in the Dark
Bioluminescent Animals That Glow in the Dark
by curious_compiler  • 
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Real animals, and the plankton that lights up beaches, that make their own light through a chemical reaction in their bodies. The test for a place here is true bioluminescence: creatures that only...
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