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Top 10 Weirdest Sea Creatures

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They're weird in good ways, and they're weird in bad ways. But most importantly, they're just WEIRD. Really weird. And frankly, we felt like we were being totally selfish not sharing them with you. So put on your snorkel, goggles, and flippers, and hit the water with us to check out the absolute weirdest (but coolest!) sea creatures. But we're warning you—if our choices' names alone are any indication, it definitely won't be pretty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>10: Blobfish</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In case you ever wondered where the creator of Ziggy came up with the artistic concept, wonder no more. This fish (if "fish" we can really call it) is the weirdest looking sea creature we've ever seen. What's worse is that this animal is just as lazy as it looks and sounds...it barely expends any energy even eating, making sure it gobbles up whatever just happens to be floating by at the moment. So maybe a little less Ziggy ... a little more Al Bundy. Either way, it makes us seriously think about our carb intake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>9: Axolotl</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Axolotls are like the cute anime pet you never had but always wanted, because you saw it on a deck of Pokémon cards. Tack onto that the ability to completely regenerate any dangling limb, and you've got yourself a real live Tamigachi! Another cool thing about axolotls is that they stay in their larval state even into adulthood, when they start becoming sexually mature—talk about babies having babies! Maury Povitch would have a field day with these weird sea creatures. Which of course, only makes them weirder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>8: Frilled Shark</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Its oxymoronic-sounding name alone conjures up visions of a shark from a Disney movie—a fluffy, fun little animal that wags its fin like Pluto wags its tail. Well, perhaps that assessment isn't too far off. The frilled shark is not your typical shark, judging by looks alone. It closely resembles an eel—so much so that it's mistaken for an eel quite often, and the only real distinguishing features are its signature six gill slits (that's like a "Hell's Angel" tattoo for sea creatures).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One more weird thing about this sea creature: they came back from the dead. Well, sorta… these animals were long thought to be extinct (they had the fossils to prove it!). It wasn't until 2007 that someone witnessed a real live frilled shark wash up on the shore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>7: Anglerfish</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We'll say it, and we'll say it without fear: anglerfishes are ugly. There, we said it. They are disgusting bottom-dwellers, and if that isn't the lowest of the low, they also have a spine that doubles as bait for prey. They have big pointy teeth, and we're pretty sure you don't want to know what their mating habits are. All in all, "weird" only scratches the already scaly surface.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>6: Loch Ness Monster</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While the Scottish Highlands have a history of having things appear out of the mist (is Brigadoon humor still in, or is 60+ years too much time?), it is the The Loch Ness Monster, or "Nessie" as we've come to know her, that has become the most popular Scottish Highlands' mist-dweller. The story goes that in August of 1933, the Courier published an article stating that a man had witnessed what appeared to be a dragon ... or at least, the closest thing he had ever seen to a dragon. Years passed, and evidence proving Nessie's existence (including photographs, video and even sonar) mounted. Because of this evidence, The Loch Ness Monster has been neither confirmed nor denied—though the scientists in the room may beg to differ.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>5: Dana Octopus Squid</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This weird sea creature mesmerizes its prey by flashing it—but not in the what's-under-that-trench-coat kind of way. In an actual, literal light-gets-in-your-eyes kind of way. By emitting flashes of light used to blind their prey, the Dana Octopus Squid successfully disorients, then captures them. Which begs the question: whatever happened to stimulating conversation?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>4: Leafy Sea Dragon</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Leafy Sea Dragon is one of the few sea creatures with its own built-in camouflage. The tiny fins that are used to propel our leafy friend forward are impossible to see, giving the illusion that you are merely watching some seaweed lazily float by (like an underwater plastic bag à la American Beauty). So the next time you see a chunk of seaweed ... notice the beauty of it, yes. But also notice that you may just be witnessing one of the weirdest sea creatures in the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>3: Longhorn Cowfish</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Although the Longhorn Cowfish tends to look like a hovercraft when it's moving along, it's not quite as fun as the Bumper Car-esque exterior it tends to exude. In fact, what it does exude is a poisonous toxin from the mucous secretions of their skin, rendering their flesh a deadly delicacy (should you be so inclined to eat one, since it has "cow" in the name and fast food these days will take anything they can get). The good news is, they tend to make a very distinct grunting noise when they've been captured—so just be sure to listen carefully to your next double cheeseburger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>2: Viperfish</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Even without the visual aid, we're pretty sure we can explain what a viperfish looks like: imagine a baseball bat with the head of Predator. Then add some scales and the gnarliest teeth you've ever seen (they are so large, they don't even fit in its mouth—they curve backward up toward its eyes). Finally, it has a radio antenna on top of its Predator head—you know, so it doesn't miss the game. Well, that's not entirely true: the "radio antenna" actually works as a fishing lure for its prey. By flashing the light at the tip on and off, it attracts passers-by that may (or may not, in most cases) want to be eaten. Sort of like a taxi cab! Although you're probably safer in a viper ... fish, that is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>1: Vampire Squid</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Helping it stay true to its name, the Vampire Squid comes complete with its own cape, made from arms connected by black webbing. The webbing help propel it through the water and almost fly like—you guessed it—a bat. But by far, the coolest/weirdest thing about this sea creature is its ability to hypnotize its prey using what's knowns as "photophores" on its arms. So basically it's a living, breathing dance club.</span><br />
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10 Interesting Facts About Animals

<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are about one million different species of animals, birds, insects and fishes in the world. The majority of them can still be found in the world while many of them are endangered or nearing extinction. Here we have collected 10 interesting facts about animals, some which you are familiar with though you may be surprised about a few things and others that may have never heard about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>1) Panamanian Golden Frog:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">An amazing species of frog named Panamanian Golden Frog does not possess ears, but rather they listen with the help of their lungs.  Yes, those lungs multi-task for them in the most amazing way. These frogs are not the only species with the same functionality but there are many fish that also hear in the same manner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Did you know that a group of fish is called a school, while a group of owls is called a parliament.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A single cow releases vast amount of methane gas on a daily basis. The gas passed by a cow can fill about 400 litre bottles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Black Widow, one of the most poisonous spiders’, can spin a web whose silk is the strongest of all other types of silks in the world. Another interesting fact about them is if a bird eats black widow, it is very much lights out for the bird.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A woodpecker can peck on wood 20 times per second. Their average total pecks are 8,000 to 12,000 a day. A woodpecker was represented successfully by an artist Ben Hardway as fictional Woody Woodpecker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sharks, one of the largest species of fishes, don’t have bones in their bodies. Their skeleton is made of cartilage (A flexible bone like man have in their ears and nose). An amazing thing about a Shark’s skeleton is that it can easy be crushed under their own weight while on dry land.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A species of snails named as Garden Snail have about 14,175 teeth that are located on its tongue. Another cool and interesting fact about snails is that they can sleep up to 3 years without any break.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Centipedes existed on earth about 400 million years ago.  Although centipede means 100 feet, many people have witnessed quite larger centipedes, some of them with over 300 legs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A Hyrax is a small rabbit liked animal with a weight of about 2 to 5 kg but amazingly this animal is known as the cousin of elephant.  Yes guys, its true, this animal is the nearest relative of an elephant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A Dodo, one of the national symbols of Mauritius, is no more in the world as it went extinct in 1681. Although we can see the imaginary shape of Dodo’s in documentaries and featured films, their original shape is still unknown as it existed before the cameras and there are no complete skeletons found yet.</span><br />
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There are about one million different species of animals, birds, insects and fishes in the world. The majority of them can still be found in...

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The Elusive Leopard</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A leopard takes camouflage to a whole new level. Can you spot it? Hint: It's near the base of the tree. This photo was taken in the wildlife of Kruger National Park, Transvaal, South Africa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>American Pika</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The American pika is a small furry mammal that's distantly related to the rabbit. Now that you have that information, can you find it hiding here in the Cascade Mountain range in Washington?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The cheetah hides among sand and long grass, concealed from its unsuspecting prey. This photo was taken in the Kalahari Desert, South Africa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Somewhere in this photo is a giraffe. We're still not sure where. Can you spot it? Now that's what we call brilliant camouflage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The stick insect is called that because its body is long and brown, with "branches" resembling sticks. It takes advantage of leafy surroundings to blend in as part of a tree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Common Snipe is a type of bird found around wetlands. It's hiding here among vegetation in a Minnesota stream. Can you find it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The best camouflage is hiding in plain sight. Though easy to spot if you know what to look for, the common baron caterpillar blends well with the leaf on which it rests.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not one but multiple toads hide well among old and discolored leafs. Honestly, we're still not sure which are leaves and which are toads ....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The snow leopard has us beat. It's hiding somewhere in this photograph taken in the snow-covered mountains of Asia. Do you see it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The uroplatus gecko is a dark brown color and has ridges along its body similar to the body of a tree. The angle of this shot makes it easy to spot for us, but this gecko can definitely elude predators.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The nighthawk's a little difficult to find. It takes advantage of its similar spotted surroundings to blend in well among rocks in eastern Washington.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This baby may not be fully formed, but it has camouflage down cold. This wandering tattler chick hides among rocks in Wrangell-Saint Ellias National Park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now this one's a little tricky. Once you do see the blue-crowned parrot, you'll wonder how you didn't before. This parrot is hiding in a tropical rainforest in Chan Chach, Belize, South America.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Great Horned Owl uses both its plumage and the depth of its surroundings to effectively hide from predators. This was taken in a temperate forest in Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A willow ptarmigan blends in well with the winter landscape. This photo was taken near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mosquitoes make number one on the list of deadliest animal in world. This small blood-sucking insect kills 2 million to 3 million people each year worldwide. They are a family of small, midge-like flies: the Culicidae. Although a few species are harmless or even useful to humanity, most are a nuisance because they consume blood from living vertebrates, including humans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Living snakes are found on almost every continent. Many species of snakes are dangerous to humans. Most venomous bites occur in Africa, Asia, and North America. These cold-blooded reptiles are also cold-blooded killers, and it always seems the further you get away from home, the deadlier they get.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Caused up to 5,000 deaths per year, Scorpions are predatory arthropod animals of the order Scorpiones within the class Arachnida. Found widely distributed over all continents, except Antarctica, in a variety of terrestrial habitats except the high latitude tundra, these eight-legged arthropods can pack a powerful punch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Killing up to 2,000 of people a year, it takes is a good look at one of these prehistoric beasts to realize just how deadly they can be. Crocodiles can be found in the southern U.S., the Tropics, Africa, Asia, and Australia, and love the taste of human flesh just as much as that of any other unsuspecting animal it sees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The elephant, the largest land mammal, lives in Africa and some parts of Asia. These lovable, circus-friendly icons can be found in Africa and South Asia, and in a lot of cases, can be found in urban areas where people use their services for tourism, trade and transportation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also known as “black death” the Cape buffalo, found in Africa, being one of the most dangerous animals on land. Killing more then 500 per year, one of Africa’s most dangerous beasts. It is extremely aggressive and unpredictable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A full-grown male lion is about 6 inches taller than a tiger and weighs anywhere from 330 to 550 lbs (150-250 kgs), averaging 400. Kings of the jungle and one of nature’s most brilliant predators, lions are fast, cunning and extremely powerful, they have a sixth sense for hunting and they aren’t very discriminating when it comes to a red-meat dinner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After the elephant and rhinoceros, the hippopotamus is the third largest type of land mammal and the heaviest extant artiodactyl. They are usually found in Africa and are responsible for more human fatalities on the continent than any other large animal. Male and female hippos tend to have different reasons for attacking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The shark’s most incredible, virtually X-Men ability is called electroreception. They have organs in their heads called Ampullae of Lorenzini. Every time any animal moves, it generates a very slight electrical field, and sharks can actually sense this electricity. Thus a person treading water looks like lightning to a shark.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Affectionately known as the “sea wasp”, The Jellyfish killing more then 100 per year provides a good example of why these graceful, free-floating marine creatures can also be some of the world’s deadliest living organisms. They are mostly found around the Australian coastline, and are most commonly seen in the summer months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"Ah! Mosquitoes, I hate it!". Perhaps that is the words often uttered by your mouth every time you got annoyed by some mosquitoes during your peaceful sleep which wake you back up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>1. Mosquitoes are the deadliest animals on Earth.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That's right, more deaths are associated with mosquitoes than any other animal on the planet. Mosquitoes may carry any number of deadly diseases, including malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, and encephalitis. Mosquitoes also carry heartworm, which can be lethal to your dog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mosquitoes mean nothing personal when they take your blood. Female mosquitoes need protein for their eggs, and must take a blood meal in order to reproduce. Since males don't bear the burden of producing young, they'll avoid you completely and head for the flowers instead. And when not trying to produce eggs, females are happy to stick to nectar, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not all mosquito species feed on people. Some mosquitoes specialize on other animals, and are no bother to us at all. Culiseta melanura, for example, bites birds almost exclusively, and rarely bites humans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That might sound fast, but in the insect world, mosquitoes are actually rather slow. If a race were held between all the flying insects, nearly every other contestant would beat the pokey mosquito. Butterflies, locusts, and honey bees would all finish well ahead of the skeeter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This would explain that irritating buzzing sound you hear just before a mosquito lands on you and bites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Scientists once thought that only male mosquitoes could hear the wing beats of their potential mates, but recent research on Aedes aegypti mosquitoes proved females listen for lovers, too. When the male and female meet, their buzzing synchronizes to the same speed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Most mosquitoes emerge from their watery breeding ground and stay pretty close to home. But some, like the salt marsh mosquitoes, will fly lengthy distances to find a suitable place to live, with all the nectar and blood they could want to drink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just a few inches of water is all it takes for a female to deposit her eggs. Tiny mosquito larva develop quickly in bird baths, roof gutters, and old tires dumped in vacant lots. If you want to keep mosquitoes under control around your home, you need to be vigilant about dumping any standing water every few days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Few probably make it that long, given our tendency to slap them silly when they land on us. But in the right circumstances, an adult mosquito has quite a long life expectancy, as bugs go.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">10. Mosquitoes can detect carbon dioxide from 75 feet away.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Carbon dioxide, which humans and other animals produce, is the key signal to mosquitoes that a potential blood meal is near. They've developed a keen sensitivity to CO2 in the air. Once a female senses CO2 in the vicinity, she flies back and forth through the CO2 plume until she locates her victims.</span></div>
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