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The Importance Of Bees Cannot Be Overemphasised. And So, It Is Really Alarming To Hear That 500 Million Bees Dropped Dead In Brazil Within 3 Months. And This Is All Thanks To Pesticides With Neonicotinoids and Fipronil–Products That Are Banned In Europe. Global Food Security Definitely Hangs In The Balance With News Like This.

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It Is Common Knowledge That Bats Use Echolocation, The Application Of Sound And Echoes, To Locate Their Prey In The Dark. But How Do Bats Find Preys That Remain Silent And Motionless To Avoid Being Detected? The Bats, According To A New Study, Use Leaves As A Sound Reflective Mirror To Locate These Motionless Preys.

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Embryonic Communication, Like In Amphibians And Reptiles, Isn’t New, But It’s Fascinating To Know That Well Developed Unhatched Chicks Can Sense Danger While Still In The Egg, And Communicate The Danger Signal With Each Other By Vibrating Their Shells. But How These Embryos Produce And Understand The Signal Still Puzzles Researchers.

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A New Species Of Shark Has Been Discovered In The Gulf Of Mexico. The 5.5 Inch Species, Known As The Pocket Shark, Is Said To Secrete Bioluminescent Fluid That It Uses To Attract Prey. This Is Only The Second Shark Species Ever Captured/Recorded In The World. The First Was Found In 1979 In the Pacific Ocean Off Peru.

In A Rare Occurrence, At About 1,476 Feet In The Atlantic Off The Coast Of South Carolina, A Small Dogfish Shark Was Swallowed Whole By A Wreckfish During A Feeding Frenzy On An 8-Foot Swordfish By At least 11 Sharks. The Swallowed Shark Was Ambushed By A Bony Wreckfish Hiding Behind The Remotely Operated Vehicle.

The Giant Squid, On Which The Legendary Kraken Is Base Upon, Has Been Filmed Alive For The First Time In USA Water, In The Gulf Of Mexico. The First Picture Of The Giant Squid Was Taken By Japanese Scientists In 2004. While The First-Ever Videos Of Giant Squid In Their Deep Sea Home Was Captured In 2012, In Japan.

For The First Time, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Scientists Used Acoustic Recorders To Capture The Song Of The Rarest Whale On The Planet, The North Pacific Right Whale. The Scientists Were Able To Confirm, In 2017, In The Bering Sea, That The Song Came From A Male. There Are Presently About 30 Of Them Left Thanks To Whalers.

Shipworms Clams Are Known To Consume Wood. But This Newly Discovered, In The Philippine, Shipworms Clam, Known As Lithoredo Abatanica, Is Said To Consume Rock, Specifically, Limestone. Scientists Are Still Baffled As To The Benefit(s) Of Rock To The Animal. Few Animals Like Birds Eat Rocks To Help With Digestion.

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Another Zombie Animal. But This Time, This Zombie-Like Hognose Snake, Discovered In North Carolina, Tries To Scare The Threat Away By Behaving Like A Cobra Snake. But If The Threat Still Persist, It Will Pretend To Be Dead By Lying On Its Back With Its Mouth Open And Tongue Sticking Out. Talk About Playing Possum. Sorry, I Mean Snake.

An 8-Year-Old Green Anaconda, With No Male Contact, But Via A Very Rare Process Of Nonsexual Birth Or Parthenogenesis, Gave Birth To Two Anaconda Snakes. This Happened At The Boston Aquarium. This’s The Second Known Case Of Parthenogenesis In Green Anaconda, But Has Been Documented In Vertebrates Like Lizards, Sharks, And Birds.