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"It’s all very well squeezing the living breath out of your victims before swallowing them whole, but how do you avoid asphyxiating yourself in the process?"
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/reptiles/boa-constrictors-eating?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Scientists uncover 'lost world’ beneath North Sea – once home to beavers, deer and even bears
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/southern-doggerland-lost-world?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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"Then there's those long, fang-tipped jaws..." 6 most cunning, devious spiders that manipulate, seduce and stalk their way to a successful kill
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/most-cunning-spiders?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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It’s 100 times the size of Yellowstone, almost entirely covered by ice and is home to the ‘Iceberg Graveyard’
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/greenland-national-park-photos?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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It’s bigger than Hawaiʻi, over 350km long and home to the ‘unicorn of the sea’
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/scoresbysund-fjord-system?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The Colorado River vanished for 5 million years. Scientists may have just figured out where it went
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/colorado-river-disappearance?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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When 1,500m of fencing was removed from the Trans-Mongolian Railway, a long-lost animal reclaimed its native lands
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/asiatic-wild-ass-recolonisation?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The world’s largest reptile is a deadly apex predator that’s 5 metres long and weighs half a tonne
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/reptiles/saltwater-crocodile-photos?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The world’s longest venomous snake and a creature that smells like popcorn – meet 9 animals living in the wettest place on Earth
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/meghalaya-wildlife?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Two spiders were sent to the International Space Station. Scientists were surprised to see what happened next
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/jumping-spiders-space?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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“Viewers have been absolutely hooked.” Over 100,000 tune in to watch rare New Zealand parrot raising her chicks
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/kakapo-cam-new-zealand?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Satellite images reveal more than 1,000 unmapped coral reefs in Australia
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/unmapped-coral-reefs-australia?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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“Imagine a rainbow-coloured kitten, shrink it down to the size of your fingertip and add a few more legs.” It’s time to rethink these tiny and cute killers
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/jumping-spiders?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Two spiders were sent to the International Space Station. Scientists were surprised to see what happened next
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/jumping-spiders-space?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Camera traps film predators descending on cave filled with 40,000 bats. What happens next is staggering
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/bat-predation-python-cave-uganda?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Angry octopus caught punching big fish in South Pacific Ocean
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/octopus-punches-grouper-south-pacific?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Has anyone survived rabies?
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/has-anyone-survived-rabies?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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These bees aren’t vegetarian – they’re flesh-eaters and can smell food from half a mile away
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/vulture-bees-secrets-of-the-bees?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Yellowstone received a whopping 4,762,988 visits in 2025. But it wasn't the most-visited US national park
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/us-national-park-recreation-visits-2025?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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"Then there's those long, fang-tipped jaws..." 6 most cunning, devious spiders that manipulate, seduce and stalk their way to a successful kill
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/most-cunning-spiders?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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It can be seen from space, is the size of Morocco and home to animals found nowhere else on Earth
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/red-sea?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Colossal prehistoric creatures once “ruled the oceans”. Now see them close-up at the Natural History Museum’s new London exhibition
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/prehistoric-life/jurassic-oceans-nhm-exhibition?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Bumblebee queens can survive underwater for an entire week. How they do it is incredible
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/bumblebee-queens-survive-underwater?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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5.5 million bees found beneath New York State cemetery. It's one of the largest populations ever recorded
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/bees-new-york-state-cemetery?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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It flows over 4,000 miles, crosses 11 countries – and a deadly apex predator lurks within it
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/river-nile-crocodile?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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5.5 million bees found beneath New York State cemetery. It's one of the largest populations ever recorded
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/bees-new-york-state-cemetery?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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"It had big eyes, a large head, chubby cheeks, and short, stumpy legs." The 6 dinosaurs that would make the very best pets - if humans had been around
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/dinosaurs/bestdinosaur-pets?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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This diver was exploring the Great Barrier Reef, when he noticed something strange…
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/surgeonfish-colour-change?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Fungi may survive extreme conditions of Mars and space, say scientists
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/fungi-mars?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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“Imagine a rainbow-coloured kitten, shrink it down to the size of your fingertip and add a few more legs.” It’s time to rethink these tiny and cute killers
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/jumping-spiders?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Bumblebee queens can survive underwater for an entire week. How they do it is incredible
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/bumblebee-queens-survive-underwater?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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“Rearing up, each reveals its two-pronged penis.” Meet the creature that fences with an unusual body part
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/tv/persian-carpet-flatworm-mating?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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These bees aren’t vegetarian – they’re flesh-eaters and can smell food from half a mile away
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/vulture-bees-secrets-of-the-bees?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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“They felt they’d been deceived.” Was Yellowstone’s celebrated wolf reintroduction all it’s cracked up to be?
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/yellowstone-wolf-reintroduction?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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"Totally unexpected.” Scientists just discovered yet another extraordinary thing about the platypus
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/platypus-melanosomes?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Millions of years old and still here... What exactly is a living fossil?
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/whats-a-living-fossil?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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