In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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Dolphins can rapidly heal from extreme injuries, such as shark bites, and regenerate their original body shape.
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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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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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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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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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