Jellyfish as a species are actually older than dinosaurs and sharks.
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A scorpion can hold its breath for up to 6 days.
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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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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 Koko, the gorilla famous for knowing sign language, was asked where gorillas go after death, she responded by signing “Comfortable hole, bye.”
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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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