Venus flytraps are calculating and efficient killers. "The fly, by fighting for its life, tells the plant to start killing it, and how vigorously to do so."
Japan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft returned physical samples from an asteroid called Ryugu and recent analysis shows that they contain "tiny grains of rock made from stars that died before the Sun ever existed".
When this species of water beetle gets eaten by a frog, rather than accepting its fate to be digested, it crawls through the frog's bowels and emerges through its butt. "The quickest run from mouth to anus was just six minutes."
Thalassotherapy: salt water therapy. I love the ocean and I always feel so much better when I am around it.
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