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The bootlace worm, a ribbon of black slime found tangled on North Sea beaches, can stretch to more than 55 metres (longer than a blue whale), making it arguably the longest animal on Earth, and its skin secretes a neurotoxin that killed cockroaches and crabs after laboratory injection
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (1186+ words) A 55-metre specimen stranded on a Scottish beach in 1864 made the bootlace worm a contender for the longest animal on Earth. In 2018, Swedish researchers found its mucus contains a peptide neurotoxin that paralyses crabs and kills cockroaches, while leaving mammalian…...
Meet Pando: The ancient???Trembling Giant??? that may be the largest living thing on Earth
1+ week, 3+ day ago (653+ words) Deep in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest, what appears to be an ordinary aspen grove is actually a single enormous organism. Known as Pando, the sprawling colony of quaking aspens is connected by one underground root system and is widely regarded…...
Shell-crushing predators may have sparked early Cenozoic boom in marine snail evolution
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Extinct tiger head bought for £50 sells for £60k after being mistaken for 'fox"
3+ week, 1+ day ago (1302+ words) Andew Stowe holds a rare Thylacine tiger that sold at auction after being found at a car boot sale(Image: © SWNS) The 'one of a kind' discovery of the rare Thylacine mounted head, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger, has…...
‘Fox head’ bought for £50 at market uncovered as priceless ‘holy grail’ antique
3+ week, 4+ day ago (457+ words) The ‘extremely rare’ Tasmanian tiger head was first bought for £50 at an antiques market A taxidermy “fox head” bought for £50 at an antiques market has sold for £50,000 after it was revealed to be a rare Tasmanian tiger. The thylacine head,…...