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Watch a cuttlefish transform into a leaf and a coral to hunt its prey

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Watch a cuttlefish transform into a leaf and a coral to hunt its prey

In new video footage, cuttlefish show off their dazzling camouflage techniques, such as creating stripes that move over their bodies or mimicking non-threatening objects

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A coyote stands in the middle of a section of dirt road. Paved road, a blue house, a rubbish bin, and stop signs are out of focus in the background.

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Wolves are scaring smaller predators into deadly conflict with humans

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trilobite

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Trilobite fossil shows it was attacked by a human-sized sea scorpion

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Long-necked fossil Tanystropheus

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Bizarre fossil with an incredibly long neck was a marine hunter

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killifish

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Predators may make prey get smart and grow more brain cells

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African clawed frog

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Cannibalistic African clawed frog eats tadpoles of its relatives

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rabbits

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Rabbits flee when they smell dead relatives in predators' droppings

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Grizzly bear family

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Call off the grizzly bear trophy hunt, it's immoral and unscientific

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When a daddy longlegs is attacked by a flatworm things get messy

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When a daddy longlegs is attacked by a flatworm things get messy

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Ferocious pack-hunting pseudoscorpions believe in sharing fairly

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Ferocious pack-hunting pseudoscorpions believe in sharing fairly

One species of pseudoscorpion has learned to work together to bring down prey larger than themselves – and when they make a kill they make sure the food is shared equitably

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Giant sea spiders sit and wait for prey to knock themselves out

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Ants build a medieval ‘torture rack’ to catch grasshoppers

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Neanderthals ambushed cave bears as they awoke from hibernation

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Beetles escape alive after almost 2 hours in a toad’s stomach

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