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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 3h

This animal poops cubes. The common wombat is the only animal that does – about 100 a day. Its own gut is the sculptor: two of four strips along it contract harder, and the poop turns cubic in the last 20 percent. www.earth.com/earthpedia-ar...

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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This frog hides its blood. Asleep, a glass frog turns transparent: Duke researchers found it pulls about 89 percent of its red blood cells from circulation and packs them into its liver. www.earth.com/animals/glass...

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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This big cat does not roar. The snow leopard, the ghost of the mountains, can leap up to 50 feet (15 m) in a single bound and calls with a "chuff." Only about 4,500 to 7,500 remain – few humans ever see one. www.earth.com/animals/snow-...

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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

They thought it was sewn together. The first platypus specimens sent to Europe were considered fakes – and it took 85 years to prove this mammal lays eggs. Its bill senses prey by electricity. www.earth.com/animals/uniqu...

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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The axolotl never grows up: it keeps its feathery gills and stays aquatic for life. It regrows lost limbs without a scar and its cells read a chemical map that says what to build. Wild ones survive only in Mexico City's canals, and after captive-bred releases, a comeback is starting.

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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Its eyes are security cameras. The panther chameleon scans with each eye on its own. CT scans found the secret: a nerve coiled like a telephone cord. No other known vertebrate is wired this way. www.earth.com/animals/scien...

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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The corpse flower (titan arum) blooms for a day or two every few years, heats itself up as it opens, and gives off the stench of rotting flesh to lure carrion flies and beetles. Nearly 20,000 people lined up in Sydney to smell one. About 162 remain in the wild. www.earth.com/plants/corpse...

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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every fall, hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies fly up to 2,500 miles (4,000 km) south to the forests of central Mexico – and not one has made the trip before. A sun compass, a magnetic compass under clouds, and winter cold that flips it for spring. www.earth.com/animals/monar...

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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This fish knows its own face. The cleaner wrasse, a small coral reef fish that eats parasites off other fish, passed the mirror test: given a parasite-like mark and a mirror, six of nine tried to scrape the mark off within two hours. In photos, it recognizes its own face – not its body.

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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The peacock mantis shrimp punches with the force of a .22 caliber bullet – 50 times faster than a blink. Each strike makes a bubble that collapses in a shockwave, and a 2025 study in Science found its club filters the shockwaves out so it survives its own punches. www.earth.com/news/how-man...

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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Bees are making less honey, and five decades of data reveals why www.earth.com/news/bees-ar... #SavetheBees #Honeybees #PollinatorDecline #HoneyProduction #EarthDotCom

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