Random Animal Facts

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    Carbonemys
    Carbonemys
    About 60 million years ago, there was a species of turtle that was so large and had such powerful jaws that it could have devoured a crocodile.
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    Mouth-Peeing Turtles
    Mouth-Peeing Turtles
    There's a species of soft-shelled turtle in China that 'pees' in puddles through its mouth.
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    Sir Nils Olav
    Sir Nils Olav
    Norway has a king penguin as Colonel-in-Chief of their royal guard.
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    There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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    The colossal squid has the largest eyes in the world.
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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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    A giraffe's kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.
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    A newborn Chinese water deer is so small, it can (almost) be held in the palm of a hand.
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