The Animal Kingdom

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Why Garden Snails Prick Each Other For Love

They stab one another with tiny calcareous daggers and call it romance, which is either evolutionary genius or the worst date in Gloucestershire history.Read More

This Slug Stole Plant Powers And I Am Living For It

There is a real-life sea slug that nicks chloroplasts from algae and survives on sunlight for months-nature's ultimate freeloading flex.Read More

That pistol shrimp that makes tiny explosions

There is a wee shrimp that snaps its claw so fast it makes a bubble that pops like a mini gunshot and stuns fish.Read More

That Barnacle That Makes Crabs Babysit Its Babies

Meet the parasitic barnacle that sneaks into a crab, turns him into a sterilized nanny and gets him to love every minute of it.Read More
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