Dire wolves actually existed, living up to 10,000 years ago before going extinct.
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Tigers can see 6 times better at night than humans.
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There's a lizard known as the 'Jesus Lizard' that can run across water.
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Using a remote-controlled camera, biologists caught dolphins getting high by sucking on puffer fish. They were even caught passing the puffer fish around.
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Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
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If a vampire bat goes 2 days without drinking blood, they can die. However, well fed female bats will puke up blood and share it with other bats that they like in exchange for grooming.
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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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