These are our favorite animal stories of 2022

From spiders that catapult their way to safety to sea sponges that sneeze themselves clean, here are the creature features that most impressed us in 2022.

Fishing fox

Pics or it didn’t happen. In the first recorded instance of a fox fishing, a team from Spain filmed a red fox (Vulpes vulpes) catching 10 carp over a couple hours (SN: 11/5/22, p. 4). This makes foxes only the second type of canid — wolves can do it too — that are known to fish for a feast.

In March 2016, a male red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in Spain was spotted grabbing carp during spring spawning season.  Skydiving

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