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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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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In 1955, the citizens of São Paulo were so upset with their government that they elected a rhinoceros named Cacareco (meaning rubbish) to the city council in protest, with over 100,000 votes.
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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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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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Penguins have a gland above their eye that turns saltwater into freshwater.
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