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    Bloodshot:
    why the horned lizard squirts blood from
    its eyes in self-defense

    If you’ve ever been so angry you saw red, stand back, because the phrase “blood in your eye” gets taken to a whole new level by the horned lizard.  They defend themselves from certain predators by shooting jets of blood from their eyes.

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    Stiff Competition:
    why one small marsupial is the only mammal to mate itself to death

    If you think the competition is stiff in your dating pool, try being an antechinus (anti-KINE-us), a genus of tiny marsupial that literally mates itself to death.

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