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Snake

Brazil: 17-month old boy strikes back at venomous snake – killing it with one bite

The incident happened in the town of Mostardas in Rio Grande do Sul state, on 1 November.

Chinese authorities seize 2,674 pangolin carcasses in biggest trafficking case in 5 years

pangolin illegal wildlife trade

Customs officials in China's Guangdong find huge pangolin haul on fishing boat.

One of Britain's oldest trees changing sex

FORTINGALL YEW

Max Coleman of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, found berries on a branch of the Fortingall yew.

world's smallest snail

Acmella nana: World's tiniest land snails discovered in Borneo measuring just 0.7mm in diameter

Acmella nana breaks record for smallest land snail as 48 new species discovered by researchers.

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cricket burger

Bug burgers, anyone? Why we're opening the UK's first insect restaurant

Are insects the future of sustainable eating?

Alagoas curassow chick

Rare Alagoas curassow bird hatches in Brazilian zoo raising hopes against extinction

The birth breathes new life into hopes to keep the rare species from being wiped from Earth.

false catfish sofa shark

Meet the ghost sharks and deep-sea demons that will haunt your dreams

"Perhaps the eeriest thing is the fact that we don't know much about [deep sea fish]"

door to hell burning crater Turkmenistan

Halloween 2015: The Door To Hell in Turkmenistan that has been burning for 44 years [Video]

"It takes your breath away. You immediately think of your sins and feel like praying."

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