A tortoise named Adwaita lived to 255 years old. To put it into perspective, he was born before the United States of America existed and his death was announced on CNN (1750-2006).
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The world’s largest frog, the Goliath frog, can grow over 13 inches in length and can jump up to 10 feet in a single bound.
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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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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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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 elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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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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