The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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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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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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