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In the wild, Andrew feeds on fish, sponges, small crustaceans, nematode worms and protozoans.
Benny's diet is very specialized, consisting mainly of the interior of Ramy nuts, nectar from the Traveller's Palm tree, some fungi and insect grubs. He is also known to raid coconut plantations, and has been seen eating lychees and mangoes, which are also plantation crops.
Category: arctic
235 identical species thrive in the waters around the North and South Poles, despite the distance 11,000 kilometers between them.
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Category: solenodon
The Hispaniolan solenodon was thought to be extinct due to habitat loss, but this video proves otherwise.
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Category: ants
Subterranean...blind...predatory...smokin' hot AILF! These are all adjectives that you could use to describe a newly discovered ant from the Amazon rainforest.
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Category: insect
Brits of all shapes and sizes have been spitting out mouth fulls of tea and shepherd's pie at the announcement that a strange unidentified insect seems to be running rampant across England, including London.
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Category: crustacean
Y-larvae revert from fairly complex organisms into parasitic slug monsters.
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Category: amphibian
A study of rare African frogs has revealed a form of self-defense hitherto unbeknownst to the scientific world: claws of pure bone that burst through the frogs' skin. And it gets worse. When the frogs are threatened they need to first "actively break" their own bones in order to create these claws.
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Category: new discoveries
The Arizona State University's Institute for Species Exploration has released their much anticipated picks for the top ten best new species discovered in the last year.
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Category: frog
Deep in the heart of the jungles of Borneo a new frog has been found that is rocking the very foundations of frog biology the world over. Why? Because, for God's sake, it has no lungs. Instead, it gets all the oxygen it needs by absorbing it through its skin.
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 3:13 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: new discoveries
Check out this footage from a recent international expedition called the Collaborative East Antarctic Marine Census.
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Category: snail
Any snail enthusiast knows that their favorite creatures' shells follow certain stead-fast rules: They are cone shaped, right handed, and spiral on a single axis logarithmically. Well, let me just tell you what a shock it was to the snail community when scientists recently discovered the Opisthostoma vermiculum in Malaysia. The snail version of James Dean, the Opisthostoma vermiculum's shell breaks all the rules and answers to no one. Do you think you're the boss of it? You're not.
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