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A bird’s proteinaceous plumage comes from the same source as our hair

Peek over the parapet of a bridge just as daylight bleeds into dusk, gazing down through the clear layers of a shallow river or chalk stream, and you may glimpse the shadowy, serpentine form of an eel

Moles are strange. they have evolved to become so highly specialised and attuned to a particular way of life that they are, for the most part, out of sight. Underground, they live in a fossorial world

Which species are the scariest, most venomous or biggest eight-legged freaks in the world?

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