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Electric eels can coordinate their shocks in groups.
Recently discovered in the Amazon, groups of electric eels will work together to hunt, surrounding prey and delivering synchronized electrical discharges. This coordinated hunting behavior, previously unknown in electric eels, can produce enough electricity to power several houses momentarily.
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The purple frog spends most of its life underground and appears only to mate.
This unusual amphibian lives underground for up to 50 weeks per year, emerging only during monsoon season to...
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Elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants than to shrews.
Despite their small size and shrew-like appearance, genetic studies have shown that these African mammals are more closely...
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Some moths drink the blood of sleeping animals.
Calyptra moths have evolved specialized mouthparts that can pierce animal skin and drink blood. They typically feed on...