The vampire fish impales their prey with their long, sharp fangs. Their fangs can grow as long as six inches.

The great white shark is an example of an apex predator; which means, as an adult, it has no natural predators in its ecosystem.

Studying the earwax of a blue whale can tell scientists the story of its life. The technique, described in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, can be used as a tool to understand the whale’s hormonal and chemical biography. It can also be a window into how pollutants, long discontinued, can still pervade the environment today.

Bison may look slow and not very agile, but they can run at 35 miles per hour and jump as high as 6 feet off the ground.