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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The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
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Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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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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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 group of pugs is called a grumble.
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Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
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