The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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Jellyfish as a species are actually older than dinosaurs and sharks.
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Squirrels will sometimes adopt orphaned baby squirrels that they’re related to.
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By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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A puppy is born blind, deaf, and toothless.
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