Dire wolves actually existed, living up to 10,000 years ago before going extinct.
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Jellyfish as a species are actually older than dinosaurs and sharks.
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Female kangaroos have three vaginas.
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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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Sandy, an African Penguin, has been in 'love' with her keeper at the Nuremburg zoo since 1996.
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The CIA once spent $20 million on a cat equipped with gear to spy on the Soviets, but it was hit by a taxi.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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The most expensive cow in the world was sold in 2009 for $1.2 million.
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