The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
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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 Platypus used to be considered a myth like Bigfoot and the Yeti.
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The octopus does not have a blind spot.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks' of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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