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This week’s animal spotlight is about the Polar Bear. The world’s largest land carnivore that is also a super capable swimmer and has a liver with enough vitamin A to kill you!

If you want to learn more about it the link is below :)

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Tardigrades survive being dried out thanks to proteins found in no other animals on Earth
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No this isn’t a typo. This frog is called the mountain chicken. No this isn’t a typo. It is also called the giant ditch frog (Leptodactylus fallax)

They are now unfortunately critically endangered as they lost 80% of their population between 1995 and 2004

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The Long-nosed potoroo (Potorous tridactylus) looks like a cross between a kangaroo, gerbil and shrew making them super cute

They are a species of marsupial and are largely nocturnal coming out at night to dig up and eat things like fungus and roots

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Now cute is not a usual word that is used to describe cockroaches but I think it applies here

The giant burrowing cockroach is the heaviest cockroach species in the world growing to an amazing 30-35grams and 8cm long

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The Mudpuppy is found in the waterways of North America and uses its feather-like gills to help breathe

They are one of the few species of salamanders that don’t undergo metamorphosis very often if at all as they need their gills to sustain their aquatic life

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The Javelin Sand boa (Eryx jaculus) is found in Eastern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East

The way they got their name is a little sad. The ancient Greeks used to throw them at enemy ships to distract and confuse the enemies, as well as the poor snake

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The electric eel is the most shocking out of all the animals that are able to shock

They are able to produce a max shock of 600 volts and 1 ampere

They are also not eels but a member of the knifefish family

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The black and white tegu is a large species of lizard originally from Argentina

They are the largest of the tegu species growing up to a max of 140cm

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The kiwi is one of 4 species of small flightless birds with the tallest only growing to a height of 45cm

However! Despite this, they are related to emus and ostriches

They lay the largest eggs in comparison to their body size being one-third the total length

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The Christmas tree worm (pirobranchus giganteus) burrows into coral to make a home for itself

It then uses its long bristles to filter feed

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@bawtch Wow! Thank you for pointing that out!

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The pumpkin patch tarantula is a beautiful species of dwarf tarantula found in Colombia

They are highly sort after as pets

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The Blue Dragon (Glaucus atlanticus) is a species of sea slug that swims upside on the surface of the ocean looking for its food, the Portuguese man o’ war

They take the venom-filled nematocysts while they eat the man o’war and use them in their own tentacles as a defence

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The kinkajou spends nearly their whole lives up in the trees and they are very well adapted to that life

They have a fully prehensile tail that they use kind of like a fifth arm and their ankles are able to turn 180 degrees making clubbing up and down trees easy

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The Cecropia silkmoth (Hyalophora cecropia) is the largest native moth to North America with females having a span of over 16cm

Their larvae have a sweet tooth because they are mainly found on maple trees

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@josephe_anne That’s so cool! Great pic!

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The red-tailed boa also called the common boa (Boa constrictor) is the most widespread boa species

They grow anywhere from 0.9m up to 4m and although they usually weigh around 20 kg they can get up to 40kg

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The turtle frog is a species of frog that skips the tadpole stage from Australia

They live in arid sandy areas so they form into frogs within the egg capsule

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Plectostoma Obliquedentatum is a species of land snail from Borneo Malaysia

They as well as other members of the genus Plectostoma have spectacular shells

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@HolaScrib 😂😂😂 fortunately … or unfortunately depending on how you look at it, that end actually is it’s face

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The barrel eye fish (Macropinna Microstoma) is a deep sea fish with a clear transparent head

The circles on the front of its that look like eyes are actually its nose and its eyes are the big green circles in the middle of its head

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