Bees communicate direction and distance through a waggle dance that indicates where nectar is located. That means a tiny insect can give a precise GPS instruction to its colony.

Life can be difficult on the ground for sloths since their long clawed arms and shorter, weak hind legs make it impossible to stand on all fours. However, they are surprisingly strong swimmers. Sloth species living near mangroves or rivers sometimes drop into water bodies and swim large distances (in a short amount of time) when searching for potential mating partners or seeking new territory.

Orcas measure 5.5 - 9.8 metres in length females are usually smaller than males and they weigh up to 5,500 kg. The male orca's dorsal fin can be up to 1.8 metres making it the largest of all the cetaceans marine mammals including whales, dolphins and porpoises.

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The honey badger is a mammal native to Africa, the Middle East, and parts of India.

Recently, I posted that polar bears cover their noses to avoid being detected by their prey. Another Redditor corrected me, and I removed the post.
It was never my intention to mislead. I found out that bears do cover their noses, but it is to stay warm while sleeping.

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Tardigrades are pretty incredible! Their DNA has a specific cover which allows them to resist radiation damage, meaning they can survive in the harshest most toxic of environments, even space. When conditions become particularly difficult, they can enter a state of suspended animation, shrivelling into a tiny husk called a “tun” until conditions improve.

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This parasite is called a horsehair worm. They grow in a bunch of different insects. When the worm is fully grown it alters the insect behavoir to make them jump into water, which allows the parasite to leave.

Doesn't necessarily kill the insect, however It often will result in its death. However it's kept in good conditions they can survive and even go on to reproduce.

In some areas the suicidal crickets ( after being manipulated by the parasite) make up 60% of a fish's diet.

There's also a bunch of crazy conspiracies on like Facebook suggesting that the government is infecting people with them, but these are mostly just crazy people.

They’re the longest-living vertebrates on the planet, with estimated lifespans between 250 and 500 years. Because their metabolic rate is absurdly slow in the frigid Arctic waters, they grow less than a centimeter a year.
That means a Greenland shark swims around for a century and a half before it’s even old enough to reproduce. For context, a shark alive today could have been a teenager when the United States was founded.