In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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Bats sleep 18-20 hours per day.
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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 Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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Sharks have been on the planet longer than trees.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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Vampire bats adopt orphans, and are one of the few mammals known to risk their own lives to share food with less fortunate roost-mates.
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