Sharks have been on the planet longer than trees.
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Queen ants have one of the longest life-spans of any known insect - typically up to 30 years. Western harvester ant queens can live up to 40 years!
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Macaques monkeys in Japan learned to steal purses and wallets, take out the coins, and use them to buy drinks and snacks from vending machines.
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Cats recognise the voice of their owner, but never evolved to care.
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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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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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There's a competition in Sweden called Kaninhoppning, or rabbit show jumping.
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