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4 matchups tagged champion-of-the-week.

A wild platypus swimming in a creek in Tasmania

A Galapagos marine iguana resting on volcanic rock on Espanola Island

A northern stargazer fish specimen with its eyes and upturned mouth on the top of its blunt head

A live frilled shark swimming in the deep sea, showing its long eel-like body

Close-up of a southern cassowary's grey scaly feet showing the long dagger-like inner-toe claws

Weekend Special - Champion of the Week

Champion of the Week: A Milk-Sweating Duck-Mole That Glows, a Salt-Sneezing Sea Lizard, a Fish With Its Face on the Roof, a 300-Toothed Dino Eel, and a Bird That Kicks Like a Velociraptor

Five weekday winners, one crown, zero chill. The champions of the week face off to decide who is the coolest, weirdest, and grossest of them all.

4 weeks ago · 7 min

The metallic blue-green emerald cockroach wasp (Ampulex compressa), also called the jewel wasp

A small blue-and-silver Glaucus atlanticus (blue dragon sea slug) with outstretched finger-like cerata on wet sand

1896 scientific illustration of the pelican eel (Eurypharynx pelecanoides), a dark deep-sea eel with an enormous loose-hinged mouth and a long whip-like tail

A long-eared jerboa (Euchoreutes naso), a tiny sandy-colored rodent with enormous ears

Weekend Special - Champion of the Week

Champion of the Week: A Corpse Stork That Poops on Its Own Legs, a Fish That Is Mostly Mouth, a Wasp That Does Roach Brain Surgery, a Slug That Robs a Man o' War, and a Gerbil Wearing Satellite Dishes

Five weekday winners walk into the arena. Only one walks out wearing the crown. The other four can walk it off.

5 weeks ago · 6 min

A barreleye fish specimen collected during a NOAA Gulf of Alaska seamounts expedition, showing its rounded head and upward eyes

A Texas horned lizard on sandy ground, showing its flattened spiny body and crown of cranial horns

A wetapunga giant weta specimen from the Auckland Museum entomology collection, showing its heavy body and long spiny legs

A pink fairy armadillo showing its small pale-pink dorsal shell and large front digging claws

A live Osedax japonicus bone-eating worm on display at Enoshima Aquarium in Japan

Weekend Special - Champion of the Week

Champion of the Week: A Glass-Headed Fish, a Blood-Squirting Lizard, a Sparrow-Sized Bug, a Blushing Sand Swimmer, and the Mouthless Worm That Ate Them All

Five weekday winners walk into the ring. One of them does not have a mouth, and somehow that is the one you should be afraid of.

6 weeks ago · 6 min

Scanning electron micrograph of an active Milnesium tardigradum showing its plump body, eight stubby legs, and clawed feet.

A hairless, wrinkled pink naked mole-rat with prominent front teeth

A tongue-eating louse sitting inside the open mouth of a striped seabream where the tongue used to be

A Pacific hagfish poking out of a hole on the seafloor at 150 meters depth

A bombardier beetle of the genus Brachinus with an orange thorax and dark blue wing covers.

Weekend Special - Champion of the Week

Champion of the Week: Five Weekday Winners, One Crown

A space-proof bug, a deathless sausage, a tongue thief, a highway-slimer, and a butt-cannon beetle walk into a Saturday. Only one is Critter of the Week.

7 weeks ago · 6 min

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