The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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When the "Elephant Whisperer" Lawrence Anthony died, a whole herd of elephants arrived at his house to mourn him.
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Lobsters have blue blood.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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