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Dung Beetle
Dung beetles (also sometimes known as scarabs) are not afraid to get their hands dirty. Their entire lives revolve around…
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Spider Wasp
The spider wasp is a family of spider-hunting parasitoid insects, so-named because the young larvae live on and exploit spiders…
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Carpenter Ant
The carpenter ant is a genus of wood burrowing social insects that form large, highly stratified, and cooperative colonies. A…
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Huntsman Spider
The largest spider by leg span in the world. Huntsman spiders belong to the Sparassidae family and get their common…
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Crab Spider
Crab Spiders can mimic ants or bird droppings “They look like tiny crabs.” Crab spiders are mostly found in the…
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Camel Cricket
Camel crickets are also called spider crickets, sand treaders, camelback crickets and cave crickets. They take their name from their…
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Krill
They smaller than a paper clip, yet they hold the entire ocean food web together, and right now something is…
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Immortal Jellyfish
One species of jellyfish has cracked the code on aging, cycling back to its juvenile form whenever it faces death…
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Colossal Squid
Lurking beneath Antarctic waters at crushing depths, the largest invertebrate on Earth has barely been glimpsed alive, yet the clues…
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Vampire Squid
The vampire squid is a small cephalopod and is found in tropical as well as temperate oceans. They usually exist…
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Monarch Butterfly
Few insects pull off a feat as remarkable as the monarch butterfly, fueling a journey of thousands of miles on…
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Camel Spider
Camel spiders can move as fast as 10 miles per hour! Camel spiders can be found in areas with dry…
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Wolf Spider
The wolf spider is a family of carnivorous spiders that have adapted to most of the world’s major ecosystems. Among their…
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Barnacle
What is a barnacle? The barnacle is one of the oldest surviving creatures on earth and lives in oceans around…
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Moth
With over 160,000 species ranging from mouthless wonders that survive just one week to giants spanning nearly a foot across,…
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Wasp
Most people picture an aggressive, stinging pest, but the vast majority of the 100,000-plus wasp species on Earth live quiet,…
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Sea Squirt
This potato-shaped marine animal travels by hitchhiking on ship hulls, fuses with its neighbors to form a single living body,…
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Bumblebee
Bumblebees have powered ecosystems for tens of millions of years, yet something is quietly erasing them from landscapes across the…
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Crab
Ever wonder why crabs wave pincers around? They are using them to communicate, and will even use their pincers to…
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Lobster
They taste with their feet, chew with their stomach, and carry the biological potential to outlive your great-grandchildren. The creature…
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Coral
“There are more than 6000 species of coral in the world’s oceans.” Corals look much like plants but are actually…
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Stick Insect
It can vanish in plain sight, reproduce without a mate, and sacrifice a limb to escape a predator's grip. The…
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Mayfly
An insect so ancient its fossils predate the dinosaurs, yet so fleeting it may die before sunset. Understanding how the…
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Squid
With three hearts, jet-propelled bodies, and the ability to flash colors on demand, these ocean predators break almost every rule…
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King Crab
With legs spanning the height of a full-grown human and claws engineered for crushing versus tearing, this ocean giant operates…
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Hermit Crab
These social crustaceans live in colonies of over 100, carry homes they must constantly steal from each other, and harbor…
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Octopus
With the highest brain-to-body-mass ratios of all invertebrates — higher even than those of some vertebrates — the octopus is…
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Termite
Silent and relentless, these small insects cause billions in property damage without ever being seen or heard. Understanding how they…
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Ladybug
Most people picture the same red shell and black dots, but the beetle hiding behind that familiar image comes in…
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Millipede
Ancient beyond imagination and built unlike any insect you know, this many-legged arthropod hides some genuinely strange secrets beneath its…
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Prawn
The Southern hemisphere is home to prawns, a crustaceous animal that is in some ways like shrimp. This slightly different…
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Beetle
One in four animal species on Earth belongs to a single insect order, and scientists still cannot fully explain how…
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Butterfly
From carnivorous species that hunt living insects to adults that physically cannot eat, butterflies hide some genuinely bizarre secrets beneath…
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Caterpillar
Before a caterpillar earns its wings, it embarks on one of nature's most bizarre transformations, dissolving much of its own…
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Centipede
Despite their name, no centipede has ever had exactly 100 legs, and that is just the beginning of what makes…
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Glowworm
Despite the name, glowworms are neither worms nor a single species, and the eerie light they produce serves purposes far…
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Cockroach
They survived asteroid impacts, ice ages, and mass extinctions that wiped out countless other species, yet one of their strangest…
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Stag Beetle
The oldest known fossil of the stag beetle dates back to the Middle Jurassic Period, approximately 150 to 160 million…
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Dragonfly
Ancient, armored, and clocking speeds that rival a sprinting human, these aerial hunters have ruled the skies for over 300…
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Sea Slug
One of the most important facts to remember about sea slugs is that there are over 2,000 species. They are…
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Puss Moth
The puss moth is a large moth with a soft, striped, and fluffy coat that makes it look like a…
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Ant
A single colony of one ant species stretches thousands of miles, another species exists on just two city blocks in…
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Snail
Slow-moving but always fascinating, the snail is one of the most ecologically diverse animals on the planet. Belonging to the…
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Earwig
“No in-ear problems with the Earwig!” Earwigs are nocturnal insects that can be identified by the large pair of pincers…
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Sea Urchin
They have survived for 450 million years without a brain, they see light without any eyes, and some populations can…
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Cuttlefish
Not quite a fish and not quite like anything else on Earth, this ancient cephalopod hunts with jet-propelled speed, bleeds…
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Black Widow Spider
Feared as one of nature's deadliest assassins, these small, solitary spiders tell a far stranger story than their reputation suggests,…
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Giant African Land Snail
One gravid snail smuggled into a new country can trigger a population explosion that costs millions to contain, spreads parasitic…
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Hercules Beetle
“The Hercules Beetle is the world’s longest beetle!” The Hercules beetle is one of the world’s largest insects, and it…
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Purple Emperor Butterfly
The Purple Emperor is a large butterfly whose males have areas of iridescent purple on their wings. The larger females…