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“Notoriously cannibalistic.” Animals are eating their own kind in this enormous US estuary

Researchers used 37 years of data to study predation on blue crabs in Chesapeake Bay. They discovered the animals are eating ...
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9 brutal insect photos that show how these ruthless predators sting, swarm and devour their prey

Daisy is a journalist and writer with 20 years of experience working on titles including the Telegraph, Time Out London, ...
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It’s almost the size of the US, spans 11 countries and is home to a creature that looks like a sabre-toothed sausage

The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, spanning 9.2 million square kilometres (3.6 million square miles) – an ...
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It may look like a bridge, but this crossing isn’t made of brick or concrete – but it lasts for hundreds of years

These bridges featured in BBC series The Green Planet in 2022. Speaking to BBC Wildlife, producer Elisabeth Oakham said, "Concrete and wooden bridges don't last very long, so the local Khasi people ...
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"It plunges head-first into the ground, like front crawl, and swims through the sand"

To avoid predators and the relentless sun, the sandfish opts for subterranean travel, plunging head-first into the ground and navigating the safer and cooler subsurface. But, unlike a mole or prairie ...