There’s a bonobo named Kanzi who has learned to build a campfire and cook his own food.
8
Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
16
Cats sleep for 70% of their lives.
8
Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
2
Dire wolves actually existed, living up to 10,000 years ago before going extinct.
10
Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
271
Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
19