The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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The Platypus used to be considered a myth like Bigfoot and the Yeti.
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15% of snails survive digestion by birds and are found alive in their droppings, potentially leading to the spread of snail populations.
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Dolphins sometimes have fun by blowing bubbles and creating rings of air underwater, which they then swim through.
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When cats are happy, they may squeeze their eyes shut.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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A domestic cat can sprint at about 31 miles per hour.
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