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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Cat families usually play best in even numbers. Cats and kittens should be acquired in pairs whenever possible!
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There's a young hippo and a 130+ year old tortoise in a Kenyan wildlife preserve who are best friends and they even sleep and play together.
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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 difference between antlers and horns is that antlers are shed each year and are made of bone while horns are kept for life and are made of living tissue and bone with a sheath that is very similar to human finger nails.
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Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
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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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