Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.
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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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Parrotfish make themselves a kind of mucus 'sleeping bag' which masks their smell from predators and keeps parasites away.
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Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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A puppy is born blind, deaf, and toothless.
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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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