The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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Dolphins have names for one another.
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Lobsters have blue blood.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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Using a remote-controlled camera, biologists caught dolphins getting high by sucking on puffer fish. They were even caught passing the puffer fish around.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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