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The Sydney Funnel Web Spider is one of the world’s deadliest spider known to man it lives only in Australia though.

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A what??! I have to admit that I had no idea what an echinoderm was before I discovered a weird and wonderful news item in one of the daily rags the other day! But this echinoderm is unlike any of its friends or relations! Read on …

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By 2030, 20 percent of all living species will become extinct, and if current rates of haunting and pollution continue, half of all species on earth will be extinct within a 100 years. Here’s a few species have become extinct since 2000.

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The Russians had witnessed one of nature’s rarest and most mysterious phenomena: ball lightning. Detailed reports date many centuries. Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henry II of France, is said to have been burned by a ball of lightning that chased her around her bedroom on her wedding night in 1557. One year earlier, eight people in England were reported to have been killed by a “fiery, sulfurous globe” that rolled through a door.

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The Scottish Wild Cat is the only wild animal that has, so far, resisted any attempts by man to tame it. It is now an endangered species, with an estimated population of just 400 living in the wild.

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Is the loneliest animal on the planet at last to become a father at a grand old age? People around the world are keeping their fingers crossed. Again.

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A sneak peek into some of the rarest elements on Earth. Some elements only have less than 50g of it on this planet at one given time!

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Some sheep are polled, which means they have no horns, many breeds of sheep have one set of horns, often on the males. There is one breed of sheep known to have multiple sets of horns, often exhibiting four horns on males (and sometimes as many as six horns), and smaller horns on females. That breed is the Jacob Sheep.

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Very strange, almost extinct animals. Some very weird looking, some very cute.

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What are the differences between these two rare white gators?