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Never truly gone
The Plant That Comes Back
A resurrection plant can shrivel into a dry brown ball for years, then turn green again just hours after rain touches it.
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Fits in a hand wonders
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Mighty little lifter
The Tiny Strongman
A rhinoceros beetle can carry about 100 times its own body weight on its back.
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Sound seeing
Bat's Echo Song
A bat sings tiny songs too high-pitched for human ears, then listens to the echoes to find its way through the dark.
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Music made of wings
The Cricket's Nighttime Song
A cricket doesn't sing with its mouth at all; it makes its chirping song by rubbing a pair of special wings together.
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Feelings you can see
Chameleon's Changing Colors
A chameleon can flash a whole new color in seconds, not mainly to hide, but to show how it's feeling.
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A pouch of his own
The Seahorse Dad's Surprise
A daddy seahorse carries the eggs in a pouch on his belly and gives birth to the babies himself.
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A body built to heal
The Starfish's Second Chance
If a starfish loses an arm to a hungry predator, it can often grow a brand new one back.
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A hungry plant
The Snapping Trap of the Venus Flytrap
A Venus flytrap can snap its leaves shut around a wandering insect in less than a second, one of the fastest movements in the plant kingdom.
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Ancient sky acrobat
Four Wings, No Rules
A dragonfly can fly straight up, straight down, and even backward, because each of its four wings moves on its own.
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Thousands of miles home
The Butterfly's Long Journey
Monarch butterflies fly up to 3,000 miles to a place none of them have ever been before, following a path their great-great-grandparents once flew.
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Wrapped in wonder
The Butterfly's Quiet Change
A crawling caterpillar can wrap itself in a quiet little case and later emerge as an entirely new creature: a butterfly.
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Snuggled in stinging arms
The Clownfish's Cozy Hideout
A clownfish can swim safely among a sea anemone's stinging tentacles, which would sting almost any other fish that touched them.