A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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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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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
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The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark.
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The octopus does not have a blind spot.
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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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