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“When a whale dies and sinks to the ocean floor, its body becomes a "whale fall" that can feed entire deep-sea ecosystems for decades.”

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Reference: NOAA Ocean Exploration

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Exploding ant fact

There is an ant in Brazil that has a gland which causes the ant to explode like a bomb, spraying a sticky toxic
goo on everybody nearby. Now that's some hard core biology!

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