King penguin
Deeper than most birds dive—but still at the mercy of nets and warming seas.
Fishing
The last large-scale hunt, running out of stock.
- 3
- in nature
- 9:53
- average
- 30 min
- in total
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- across the network
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Oarfish
An 8-metre fish that sheds its tail like a lizard—but never grows it back.
Sardine run
A cold-water reproductive sprint—not a drift, not a fluke, but a tightly timed genetic imperative along South Africa’s east coast.
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