The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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The colossal squid has the largest eyes in the world.
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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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Using a remote-controlled camera, biologists caught dolphins getting high by sucking on puffer fish. They were even caught passing the puffer fish around.
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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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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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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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