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Sea spiders (Pycnogonida) shared unsual body plan that their bodies are almost just legs, even their guts were branched and associated within each of them. They are not spiders nor even arachnids, instead they most likely arose from a very basal chelicerate lineage.
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Tadpole shrimps (Notostraca, not shrimps) are branchiopod crustaceans that considered to be 'living fossils', and some extant species even have extensive fossil records. Adapted to temporal aquatic ecosystem, their resting eggs can survive long-lasting dry periods.
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Apochima juglansiaria are Geometer moths (Geometridae) that bore repeatedly folded wings. They only active during springtime, and their bird-dropping-like caterpillars will pupate long before summer, spending the remain seasons underground until spring comes again.
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Motyxia are millipedes that endemic to the moutain ranges of California, as well as one of the few millipedes that could glow. The bluish-green light of their exoskeleton are warning signals to nocturnal predators, as they contain secretions of toxic cyanide.
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Solenopsis invicta are South American ants posses stinger that can cause a burning sensation, hence the name fire ants. Beside venom, they also can form floating rafts to overcome flooding event. Everything works well until some of them had been move to worldwide...
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Chiasognathus grantii (Darwin's beetle) is the giant amongst South American stag beetles. Both sexes engage in fight, and the long-legged males may have extremely long, hooked mandibles that could lock on the rival's wing cases and throwing them off their territory.
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