A newborn Chinese water deer is so small, it can (almost) be held in the palm of a hand.
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Cats recognise the voice of their owner, but never evolved to care.
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The two oldest cats on record lived to 38 and 34 years old, both were owned by the same owner and lived off a diet of bacon, eggs, broccoli and coffee.
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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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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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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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