A koi fish, named "Hanako", was owned by several individuals over many years and lived to be 226 years old, dying in 1977.
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The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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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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Only 3% of bird species have penises.
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