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Chemical Warfare and Blood Squirting: 8 Animals With the Wackiest Survival Tactics

Evolution has produced some truly incredible feats. Read more about the animals who survive in the wildest (and sometimes grossest) of ways.

By Katie Liu
Dec 14, 2023 4:00 PM
Coast Horned Lizard
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From the tiniest microbes that populated Earth billions of years ago to the various new species scientists are still discovering, today’s organisms have survived by braving nature’s trials and tribulations.

Skirting death requires evolutionary creativity. Here are eight animals who employ unique and strange strategies to survive in the wild.


Read more: 5 Unique Ways Animals Avoid Getting Eaten


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