Animals that start with V

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The vampire squid collects drifting organic debris in dim, oxygen-poor ocean water.

The vaquita is the smallest porpoise and the rarest marine mammal, found only in the shallow, murky upper Gulf of California.

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Velociraptor mongoliensis was a small feathered predatory dinosaur of Cretaceous Asia.

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The vicuña is the smallest wild camelid and the ancestor of the alpaca, living on the high grassland of the central Andes.

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The Virginia opossum is a cat-sized marsupial that ranges from Costa Rica to southern Canada, further north than any other marsupial.

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Vultures are scavenging birds from several evolutionary lineages.