Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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Dolphins can rapidly heal from extreme injuries, such as shark bites, and regenerate their original body shape.
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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 ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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A scorpion can hold its breath for up to 6 days.
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