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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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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Squirrels will sometimes adopt orphaned baby squirrels that they’re related to.
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Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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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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The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
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