The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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Ants have tiny magnetic compasses in their antennae which help them navigate.
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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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The world’s largest frog, the Goliath frog, can grow over 13 inches in length and can jump up to 10 feet in a single bound.
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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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