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101The thinnest active layer in a flexible transistor can span just three atoms.
102A superb fairy-wren begins vocal lessons while its chicks are still inside their eggs.
103A bottlenose dolphin can identify a familiar individual without seeing or hearing them.
104A stack of sun-warmed bricks can become a therapeutic hideout for an endangered frog.
105Icefishes circulate oxygen without the red protein every other known vertebrate uses.
106A female moth can include a plant's ultrasonic distress sounds in the choice of where to lay eggs.
107Student teams built one robot for bark and another for coral, testing conservation work above and below water.
108Some sea slugs keep stolen chloroplasts working inside their tissues, then digest them when food runs short.
109When red crabs cover Christmas Island's roads, barriers and bridges turn traffic engineering into wildlife assistance.
110More than a million sealed seed samples wait inside an Arctic mountain as backup copies for the genebanks that own them.
The Weird Please editorial desk collects true stories about curious inventions, peculiar history, strange science, and the gloriously unexpected.
