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Nature\’s Little Flamethrower

  • January 23, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

The bombardier beetle blasts predators with a boiling mixture of chemicals and enzymes from two chambers in its abdomen. It can spray that burning stuff as far as four feet away!

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