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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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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Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose named Buttons; a four-year-old goose who leads the pup around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go.
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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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When a drone bee mates with a queen, its ejaculation is so powerful that it can even be heard by the human ear.
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The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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