The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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