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Massive sperm whale appears yards from shore, Port Beach, Australia

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Huge sixgill sharks thrashing a submarine

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Monster saltwater croc towering over a bull shark, Ivanhoe Crossing in Kununurra

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A strawberry conch taking a look at who picked him up

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The world's last Stone Age tribe lives on North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean, and they are known for defending their island against all visitors. Because they have been living in isolation for 60,000 years, there is genetically a direct line between them and their pre-Neolithic ancestors.

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A lion's tongue is rougher than coarse sandpaper. Its lingual spines or papillae (pics 2,3) make the tongue so rough that if a lion licked the back of your hand only a few times, you would be left without any skin.

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This really big chicken taking a stroll on a beach

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Orcas letting the seals know the water's fine, Commencement Bay, Tacoma

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This classroom celebrating Halloween in the '80s

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Divers encountering a juvenile dugong while exploring the Great Barrier Reef

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Divers encountering an oarfish

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A donkey in Georgia grabs a coyote by the neck and promptly stomps it to death. The farmer later reported the coyote was flat like a rug when the donkey was done.

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Newborn sandgrouse chicks are covered with thick, highly-camouflaged down that matches their surroundings and leave the nest soon after hatching. Since they are precocial, the parents do not provide them with any food, however, the chicks learn, with parental guidance, what is and is not edible.

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A sea slug has a remarkable ability to cut off its body from its head and re-generate a new body, but it can only do this twice, according to Japanese researchers. The process is called autotomy, and the sea slug will undergo this process when its body is injured or becomes diseased.

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Viperfish can live as deep as a mile down in the dark ocean depths

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Orca and bottlenose dolphin off the coast of San Diego

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Bat-eared foxes sleep mostly during the day in their burrows and emerge at dusk to feed mainly on termites and other insects. As you can guess, they have an incredible sense of hearing - just look at those ears!

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After a thorough investigation by Maine wildlife biologists, it was concluded this bald eagle was stabbed in the heart by a loon as the bald eagle swooped down to grab one of the loon's chicks. While previously rumored, this full investigation was the first to prove that loons can kill bald eagles.

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If a lake with alligators freezes during the winter, alligators will stick their heads or sometimes just their noses above the water line and wait for the lake to thaw. They become quite lethargic during such times, but will quickly rebound once temperatures moderate.

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A snapping turtle climbing a vertical wall to lay her eggs, Brooklyn, NY

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A diver comes across an alligator in the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Florida resting at a depth of 60 feet

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Alligators move on land using two different modes of locomotion, the sprawl and the high walk. The sprawl involves moving forward with its belly rubbing the ground, however, the high walk is an up on all four limbs motion with the belly well above the ground and a diagonal slow trot style.

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A guy scratches the dirt with a stick and a sidewinder pops out and slithers away

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The maned wolf is a large omnivorous canine native to South America. It is quite shy and flees when alarmed, and it poses little to no threat to humans. The monks at the Santuario do Caraca monastery in Brazil have a very special relationship with the maned wolves which live in that area.

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Bluntnose sixgill sharks bumping into a submarine

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The mantidfly appears to be an odd combination of a praying mantis and a wasp, both of which are mortal enemies to each other. The mantidfly has the head and raptorial legs of a mantis but the thorax, wings and abdomen of a wasp.

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Black otter rex rabbits, the breed stock of which was developed in France in 1919, are jet black on their upper sides and pale buff on their bellies. Their reputed velvety, super softness derives from the downy hairs of the undercoat growing just as long as the guard hairs of the top coat.

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Bull sharks know how badass saltwater crocs are and they wisely give them a wide berth, Ivanhoe Crossing, Kununurra

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A terrapin with spiky edges

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Sperm whale coming within yards of shore, Port Beach, Australia

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🔥 The red-shanked douc (Pygathrix nemaeus) is native to Indochina. It is considered to be among the most colorful of primates.

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Allopreening is the mutual preening between two or more birds, the main purpose of which is to reduce instinctive aggression when birds are in close contact. During breeding, allopreening helps to strengthen the pair bond, and among families with young (splendid fairywrens) it creates stronger ties.

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A giant clam near Pulau Tioman Island, Pahang, Malaysia (pic taken just hours ago by a friend)

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Cartoon featuring China from 1901

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An American woodcock and her two chicks are searching for food together using a remarkably bouncy walk, which resembles a dance, that helps them stir up worms. The younglings are mimicking their mother's actions as they motion forward and feel for the movements of worms in the soil with their feet.

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Bioluminescence is typically used by animals to warn or evade predators, lure or detect prey, or communicate among members of the same species. This Dana octopus-squid, which has the largest known bioluminescent organs of any animal, is likely flashing its photophores to ward off the observer.

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An osprey espies a flounder in shallow water and grabs it off the bottom

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A Pacific giant triton swallowing up a crown-of-thorns sea star

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Black-footed ferrets are among the most endangered and rarest mammals native to North America. In fact, the species was declared extinct in 1979, however, in 1981 a residual wild population was discovered in Wyoming. This ferret, born in 2020, was the first ever U.S. endangered animal to be cloned.

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One of Oklahoma's landmarks came into being, literally by accident. A cement truck rolled over on its side on Winganon Road years ago, and because the mixer was full of concrete and too heavy to move, it has since been turned into a faux NASA space capsule by artists.

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A tiger with a snow-strewn face

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Two kangaroos fighting, one tries to strangle the other

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Rare white platypus filmed in the wild (credit: Louise Streeting)

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Mysterious golden orb found and collected off the coast of Alaska at a depth of 3,300m (nearly 2 miles) - scientists are still debating what it is

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The spiny hill terrapin, native to southeast Asia, is largely a forest dwelling turtle, inhabiting hill areas above 900m above sea level. It is well camouflaged amongst the leaf litter, but it will make occasional forays to streams and puddles. The species is listed as endangered.

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A leopard being shadowed by a panther

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Blue carpenter bees, native to southern Asia, make honey like European honeybees, but it’s much thicker and denser than the honey we’re used to, like cookie dough or peanut butter consistency. The female bees mix this honey with pollen to create ‘bee bread’ upon which they lay their eggs.

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Gray foxes are considered the most skilled tree climbing canids. They have hooked claws, like cats, which they use to escape predators, find arboreal food sources, construct tree dens and engage in playful activities.

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The Al Naslaa rock formation in Saudi Arabia has puzzled scientists for many years, and there is still no explanation how this boulder appears to have a precision cut through the middle.

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A donkey gets the upper hand in dealing with a pesky hyena that intruded onto a farm

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To satisfy the thirst of newly hatched chicks, male sandgrouse collect and bring water back to the nest by carrying it soaked in their feathers. The chicks then milk their father's belly feathers to rehydrate. A male Burchell's sandgrouse is seen here collecting water from a puddle for his young.

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Methane bubbles trapped in two meters of thick ice in Lake Baikal, Russia, the world's deepest and largest freshwater lake.

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Huge alligator hisses at paddleboarder after getting pushed away

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The Russian Blue (Русская голубая кошка) is a cat breed with colors that vary from a light shimmering silver to a darker, bluish slate gray. These cats, also called Archangel Blues, typically have bright green eyes and plush short coats. Some Russian Blues have lived up to 25 years old.

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Caracal kittens are born with their eyes closed and their ears curled up. It takes three full weeks for their characteristic ears to unfurl.

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When confronted by a curious tiger shark, re-directing it is the best option, and let's just hope that works.

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The large frogmouth, native to southeast Asia, has variegated leaf-like plumage which provides excellent camouflage in its forest habitats. It lays a single egg on a downy cushion that would fall were it not for the incubating parent crouching lengthwise along the thin branch it typically nests on.

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Honey badger versus porcupine, unsure of porcupine's condition

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The tail feathers of the male Malayan crested argus are considered to be the longest and widest of any bird. The tail covert can measure up to 1.73 m (5.7 ft), giving the bird a total length of up to 2.4 m (7.8 ft). The crested argus is a peafowl-like species of bird in the pheasant family.

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An orca, swimming by a stingray in the Sea of Cortez, just slaps it for no apparent reason other than to show how badass he is

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Antelope jackrabbits are known for their exceptionally long ears. Native to parts of Arizona and Mexico, they occupy plant communities that contain a mixture of shrubs and grasses.

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Blanket octopus unfurling her webbing and drawing it back in

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The black-maned Ethiopian lion, known locally in Amharic as ጥቁር አንበሳ (t’ik’uri anibesa) or 'black lion', is most often found in the Harenna Forest highlands of the Bale Mountains National Park. These lions, numbering around 50, have been determined to be genetically distinct from other wild lions.

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Blue-ringed octopi are small in size: no larger than 2.5in long, with arms that are about 4in long. Most of the time they’re yellow or sand-colored, but bright blue rings appear on their body when they’re about to strike. They’ll strike only if they feel threatened, and bites can be fatal.

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High-fin lizard fish, a denizen of the deep around 3 miles down

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A crow grabs and carries away a gosling from a pond which got separated from its parents.

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After vanishing in the wild for more than two decades, Spix's macaws have recently been re-introduced back into their native Brazil after an ambitious and successful breeding program. They are also called little blue macaws, and their weight averages around 300 grams (11 oz).

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A cow appears to just be cooling off in a ditch but there is more to the story

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Every year the Nuevo Vallarta Sea Turtle Preserve in Nayarit, Mexico releases thousands of sea turtles into the Pacific Ocean with the help of volunteers who bring them to the beach just after they hatch in protected areas. These are newborn green sea turtles, currently listed as endangered.

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The Chrysilla volupe is a species of spider native to India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan. The male has purple and golden iridescent scales on its legs, and its body has red, orange and iridescent blue coloration. Here is a male Chrysilla volupe on a leaf in India.

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Dhole feeding on a chital carcass

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Baboons have been evaluated in numerous studies and shown to have the approximate intelligence levels of a 3-year-old child. According to research, baboons can play with objects, learn words and even seem to mourn the deaths of their friends. In this pic, a baboon investigates yellow butterflies.

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A male frog finds an ideal opportunity as a female frog is busy swallowing a keelback snake.

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A relative of the North American wild turkey, the ocellated turkey resides mainly on the Yucatan Peninsula as well as in parts of Belize and Guatemala. The ocelli on the tail, for which the ocellated turkey is named, have been likened to the patterning typically found on peafowl.

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Cockchafers, colloquially called doodlebugs, are beetles native to Europe which were nearly eradicated because of unregulated pest control use but they have been increasing in number again recently. Male doodlebugs have 7 leaves on their antennae and females have 6. There are 3 different species.

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