The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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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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Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
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Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
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The seahorse is the only fish to have a neck.
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Domestic pigs average a top speed of about 11 miles per hour.
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