Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.
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Ants tend to survive in a microwave because they find the coolest spot and wait!
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Dire wolves actually existed, living up to 10,000 years ago before going extinct.
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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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