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Pacific geoduck: The large, phallic clam that can live longer than 165 years
The Pacific geoduck is a clam that lives along the shore from Alaska to Mexico, can reach 9 pounds in weight and can outlive humans.
Meet 'small diver': One of the tiniest penguins ever discovered
A tiny extinct penguin from New Zealand is key to understanding penguin wing evolution, researchers say.
Heavy rains expose one of the oldest dinosaur skeletons ever discovered, researchers claim
Researchers say they've recovered one of the world's oldest known dinosaurs after heavy rains exposed a Herrerasaurid skeleton in southern Brazil.
'My jaw just dropped': 500 million-year-old larva fossil found with brain preserved
The newly discovered Youti yuanshi larva fossil is so well-preserved that it provides a road map for arthropod evolution during the Cambrian period.
'If you can bench press a car, you are good to go': Inside the incredible bite-force of crocodiles
In this extract from "Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans," Bill Schutt looks at the creatures with the strongest bite forces in the world.
Dogs can smell their humans' stress, and it makes them sad
Dogs can smell when people are stressed, and it seems to make them feel downhearted.
Sun bear: The little carnivores that look so similar to humans they've been mistaken for people wearing costumes
Sun bears often stand upright like humans, and mothers even walk around cradling their babies in their arms.
Otherworldly video captures rare jellyfish with a hitchhiker in its bell
Amazing new footage shows a rare Deepstaria jellyfish with a resident isopod in its bell off the coast of Chile.
