The male seahorse carries babies and 'gives birth' to them instead of the female.
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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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Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
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Squirrels will sometimes adopt orphaned baby squirrels that they’re related to.
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Dire wolves actually existed, living up to 10,000 years ago before going extinct.
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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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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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