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World's Deadliest: Predator Superpowers

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  • A brown grizzly bear roaring. They can smell a rotting carcass from nearly two miles away.
  • A peregrine falcon spreads its wings while sitting on the glove of a falconer. The peregrine falcon an reach speeds over 320 km/h (200 mph) in a rapid stoop, making it one of the fastest creatures on the planet.
  • A Jumping spider has its fangs in a fly. The jumping spider has 8 eyes and 8 legs to work with. It has 360 degrees of vision and also great distance vision.
  • A platypus on the surface of a creek. The platypus has the tail of a beaver, webbed feet and a bill like a duck. The bill is a super-sensory organ laden with thousands of cells responsive to the electric fields generated by all living things. So to hunt, the platypus closes its eyes, its ears and its nose, and lets its bill do the work. Called 'electro-location' it is thought the waving back-and-forth motion we see here helps the platypus to locate where exactly electric pulses are coming from.
  • A Hammerhead Shark (Sphyrna lewini). They have eyes at the very edge of their head that allow them to see nearly everything around them.

  • Angry Bear

    Photograph by iStockphoto.com/ Justin Horrocks

    A brown grizzly bear roaring. They can smell a rotting carcass from nearly two miles away.

  • Massive Wings

    Photograph by iStockphoto.com/ Anton Ferreira

    A peregrine falcon spreads its wings while sitting on the glove of a falconer. The peregrine falcon an reach speeds over 320 km/h (200 mph) in a rapid stoop, making it one of the fastest creatures on the planet.

  • Killer Spider

    Photograph by iStockphoto.com/ Cathy Keifer

    A Jumping spider has its fangs in a fly. The jumping spider has 8 eyes and 8 legs to work with. It has 360 degrees of vision and also great distance vision.

  • Super Sesnor

    Photograph by iStockphoto.com/ Johan Larson

    A platypus on the surface of a creek. The platypus has the tail of a beaver, webbed feet and a bill like a duck. The bill is a super-sensory organ laden with thousands of cells responsive to the electric fields generated by all living things. So to hunt, the platypus closes its eyes, its ears and its nose, and lets its bill do the work. Called 'electro-location' it is thought the waving back-and-forth motion we see here helps the platypus to locate where exactly electric pulses are coming from.

  • Underwater Predator

    Photograph by iStockphoto.com/ Ian Scott

    A Hammerhead Shark (Sphyrna lewini). They have eyes at the very edge of their head that allow them to see nearly everything around them.
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