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This Beetle Shoots Boiling Liquid From Its Backside
The bombardier beetle fires a near-boiling chemical spray from its abdomen at up to 500 pulses per second ? and scientists needed X-ray synchrotron imaging just to see how it works.
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Wombats Are the Only Animals That Poop Cubes
Wombats are the only creatures on Earth that produce perfectly cube-shaped droppings ? and the scientific explanation involves some surprisingly creative digestive plumbing.
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The Only Animal That Poops in Perfect Cubes
Wombats are the world's only known cube-pooping creatures, and scientists finally cracked the mystery - it involves some remarkably stretchy intestines.
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Sharks Are Older Than Trees
Sharks have been patrolling Earth's oceans for 450 million years ? which means they were swimming around long before the first tree ever grew a single leaf.
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Wombats Are the Only Animals That Poop in Cubes
Wombats produce perfectly cube-shaped droppings ? and scientists spent years figuring out how, because nature apparently needed a geometry lesson.
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Wombats Produce Cube-Shaped Poop
Yes, actual cubes. Their intestines act like a slow, patient origami press.
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Octopuses Have Three Hearts and Blue Blood
Two pump blood through the gills. One pumps it around the body, then takes a nap when the octopus swims.