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The chocolate wattled bat has the (pug-like) face of an angel
With a luxurious coat of fur that resembles the colour of fresh hot chocolate, the chocolate wattled bat is one cute critter.
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How to survive a shark encounter
Start your shark encounter management plan here.
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Intertidal spiders are playing on hard mode
Turns out Australia is the global hub of beach spiders.
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The burrowing spotted pardalote is among Australia’s smallest
A colourful and compact species with usual nesting behaviour, the spotted pardalote is one of Australia’s smallest birds, measuring just 8-10 cm long.
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Springtails are kinda cute?
Springtails look like busy little cartoon aliens and I’m here for it. Look at those miniature ones interacting with each other. What is going on over there?
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The blue-crested lizard is colour-changing marvel
This ridiculously good-looking lizard is showing off its best colours for the ladies. Those flamboyant colours might also convince a predator to move right along, which makes them this little dragon’s greatest asset (if you couldn’t already tell).
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The bird-dropping spider is the best
A spider that mimics bird droppings really shouldn’t be adorable, but here we are. This thing is as cute as a button.
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The Australian ghost bat is the sweetest (almost) vampire
With a face like that, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the ghost bat wouldn’t hurt a fly, but inside that cute little head are some formidable chompers – the kind that could easily gnaw a hole in the neck of a dove, a lizard or even another bat.