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Spiders hoist big prey with silk 'pulleys' — and now scientists know howIngenious web construction allows tangle web spiders to lift animals too heavy for the spiders' tiny muscles to support.
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Whodunit solved when 'sword' is found embedded in thresher sharkIt's a mystery why a swordfish stabbed a thresher shark to death, but it's possible they were competing for food.
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Alien-like photo shows eel dangling out of heron's stomach in midairThe eel probably thought "not today" as it burrowed out of the heron's stomach.
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Snakes disembowel toads and feast on the living animal's organs one by oneFor the first time, scientists have observed snakes disemboweling toads to dine on their organs.
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Fossilized 'ocean lizard' found inside corpse of ancient sea monsterAn ichthyosaur devoured a thalattosaur about 240 million years ago.
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Weird 'broomstick' necked Triassic reptile named after mythical Greek sea monsterThese strange, long-necked Triassic beasts were able to coexist because they chowed down on different prey.
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High-speed video shows every second of a praying mantis's lethal strikeResearchers captured slow motion video of praying mantis strikes, revealing what makes these insects such effective predators.
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5 reasons hyenas like Harley Quinn's 'Bruce' are amazingHarley Quinn has a hyena friend in the movie "Birds of Prey," but even without supervillain sidekicks, hyenas are super-awesome.
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Remains of a Massive Jurassic 'Sea Monster' Found in a Polish CornfieldPaleontologists in Poland unearthed the jaws and teeth of a pliosaur, an ancient marine reptile with a bite more powerful than that of T. rex.
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