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Early explorers thought that a giraffe was a cross between a camel and a leopard and called it cameleopard

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Polar bears have black skin underneath their white fur

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In just over 100 years the passenger pigeon went from being the most common bring in the world to being extinct

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The killi fish lives in temporary ponds in venezuela . when the ponds dry up, the killi fish embroys can survive in the md with no water or oxygen for more than 60 days no other creature can hold its breath for so long

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The blue whale has the slowest heartbeat of any animal it only beats four to eight times a minute

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The cosmopolitan sail fish can swim faster than a cheetah can run it can swim at least 109 kms per hour while a cheetah can only manage 100 kms per hour

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some scientists believe that hidden or silent genes can return after millions of years a throw back happens if a silent genes gets turned back on making dolphins with legs

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A giant bird like an emu that used to live in Australian between 15 million and 25,000 years ago stood 3 meters tall and weighed 500 kg s

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Nutallas Poorwillis an American bird that hibernates in the winter hiding in a crack in a rock during this time, it uses only a thirteen of the energy it uses in the summer and its heartbeat becomes so faint that it cannot be felt

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The Arctic Ternflies a round trip of 35,000 km s a year breeding in the arctic in the northern summer and feeding in the Antarctica during the southern summer

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A galapogas tortoise called harriet lived at a zoo in bribane austraila until she died in 2006 making her over 170 years old

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The sooty terncan stay airbonre for 10 years it eats drinks and sleeps while flying and only lands to breed and rear its young

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Moths butterflies beetles and mites ear the various algae that grow on a sloth

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The gigantic dinosaur sauroposeid could stretch its neck up to 17 meters

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An Albatrosscan glide without fapping its wings for six days given the right wind conditions

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when they are young flat fish look like ordinary fish with an eye on each side as they grow one eye moves around so that both eyes are on the same side the fish becomes wider and flatter and begins to live lying flat at the bottom of the sea

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whales cannot move their eyeballs to change the direction in which it is looking a whale has to move its entire body

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The finger prints of cola bears are almost indistinguishable from those of humans

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The tailor bird makes a nest from leaves that is stitches together it punches holes in the leaves with its sharp bill and then uses long grass to stitch them together