The difference between antlers and horns is that antlers are shed each year and are made of bone while horns are kept for life and are made of living tissue and bone with a sheath that is very similar to human finger nails.
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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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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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Sandy, an African Penguin, has been in 'love' with her keeper at the Nuremburg zoo since 1996.
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An alligator can go through 2,000 to 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.
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Urechis unicinctus is a species of marine spoon worm that is widely referred to as the ‘penis fish’.
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A koi fish, named "Hanako", was owned by several individuals over many years and lived to be 226 years old, dying in 1977.
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