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The saiga antelope's huge nose contains a complex turbinate bone system that warms and filters air.
The axolotl's genome is 10 times larger than the human genome — yet much of it is non-coding.
The Etruscan shrew is the world's smallest mammal by weight — at 1.8 grams, its heart beats 1,200 times per minute.
Pigs can learn to play video games — using joysticks to move cursors with their snouts.
The sun bear has the longest tongue relative to body size of any bear — for extracting honey and insects.
The wombat's pouch opens toward the rear — preventing dirt from entering while the mother digs.
The slow loris licks a gland on its arm and then bites — the mixed saliva and venom is toxic.
The dragonfly's compound eyes cover 80% of its head — giving nearly 360° vision.
The painted turtle can survive being frozen solid in winter — its brain and heart stop completely.
The frigatebird can stay aloft for weeks — sleeping on the wing for seconds at a time using half its brain.
The goblin shark has a protrusible jaw — it can extend its jaw forward nearly the length of its own head.
The electric eel can detect the heartbeat of hidden prey through electric field sensing.
The thorny dragon drinks by standing in water and absorbing it through skin capillaries — it 'drinks' with its feet.
The olm (cave salamander) can live 100 years, go 10 years without food, and finds mates using electroreception.
The horned lizard can increase its blood pressure until blood vessels in its eyes burst — squirting blood at predators.
The glass lizard looks like a snake but has eyelids and external ear openings — it's a legless lizard.
The proboscis monkey's enormous nose amplifies its alarm calls — larger noses attract more mates.
The greater honeyguide bird leads humans to beehives — and has been doing so for thousands of years.
African lungfish can survive up to 4 years in a dried mud cocoon — metabolizing their own muscle tissue.
The great grey owl can detect prey under 30 cm of snow — using asymmetric ears for precise triangulation.
The mudskipper can breathe through its skin when wet — allowing extended time out of water.
The vampire bat has heat sensors in its nose — it can detect the warmest blood vessels to bite.
The saiga antelope's bulbous nose warms cold air in winter and filters dust in summer.
The Greenland shark grows only 1 cm per year — living to over 400 years.
The glass frog has transparent skin — its organs and beating heart are visible from outside.
The platypus has no stomach — food passes directly from esophagus to intestine.
The geoduck clam has a neck (siphon) up to a meter long — and can live for over 150 years.
The pufferfish inflates by swallowing water, not air — its spines are modified scales.
Wolf spiders are one of the few spiders with exceptional eyesight — they hunt by sight rather than web.
Naked mole rats can survive 18 minutes without oxygen — by switching to anaerobic fructose metabolism.
The platypus uses its bill to detect electrical signals — it swims with eyes, ears, and nostrils closed.
The green basilisk lizard runs on water using hydrophobic hairs and rapid leg movement.
A jellyfish has no brain, heart, or blood — and its body is 95% water.
The blue whale's heartbeat can be detected from miles away using underwater acoustic sensors.
The octopus has a distributed nervous system — 2/3 of its neurons are in its arms, which act semi-independently.
Capuchin monkeys in Brazil have been using stone tools for at least 700 years — documented by archaeology.
The glass frog's translucent skin makes its beating heart and digestive system visible from outside.
Cicada emergence cycles (13 or 17 years) are prime numbers — possibly because prime cycles avoid predator population peaks.
The sea cucumber ejects its respiratory organs through its anus when threatened — then regenerates them.
The horned lizard shoots blood from its eyes as a defense — squirting it up to 5 feet.
The albatross can sleep while flying — keeping one hemisphere of its brain active for navigation.
The Linear B script of Mycenaean Greece was deciphered in 1952 — by Michael Ventris, an amateur.
The Voynich manuscript, written in an unknown script, has never been deciphered — over 600 years after it was made.
Chinese writing has been in continuous use for over 3,000 years — the longest of any writing system.
Octopuses have photoreceptors in their skin — they may perceive color through their skin despite being colorblind through their eyes.
The bloodhound's nose has 300 million olfactory receptors — compared to about 6 million in humans.
Some pit vipers have two distinct sensory systems for seeing — one for light (eyes) and one for heat (pit organs).
The human ear can detect a difference of 3 nanoseconds in the arrival time of sounds between ears — enabling directional hearing.
Some birds have a light-sensitive protein in their eyes that literally allows them to see Earth's magnetic field.
The Byzantine Empire continued the Roman tradition for 1,000 years after Rome's fall — until the Ottomans took Constantinople in 1453.