Weird Facts
Starfish Have No Blood ? They Run on Seawater
Forget plasma and red blood cells ? the starfish ditched blood entirely millions of years ago and decided seawater was perfectly fine, thank you very much.
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Ants Have Been Farming for 60 Million Years
Long before humans picked up a plow, leafcutter ants were already cultivating underground fungal gardens ? making them the world's original farmers by roughly 59,988,000 years.
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Scientists Found a Clam That Was Alive During the Renaissance
Researchers pulled a 507-year-old ocean clam from the North Atlantic near Iceland ? then accidentally killed it trying to figure out how old it was.
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Some Turtles Survive Winter by Breathing Through Their Butts
Painted turtles spend months frozen under ice without using their lungs at all ? they absorb just enough oxygen through a region near their tail to stay alive until spring.
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Rats Laugh When You Tickle Them, But You Cant Hear It
Scientists discovered that rats emit high-pitched giggles when tickled ? sounds too squeaky for human ears to catch, but very real and surprisingly contagious among the rats themselves.
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Koala Fingerprints Are So Human-Like They Can Fool Crime Labs
Koalas evolved fingerprints almost identical to human ones completely independently ? and yes, scientists are mildly concerned about crime scene contamination.
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Pistol Shrimp Create Tiny Stars With Their Claws
When a pistol shrimp snaps its claw shut, it briefly generates a flash of plasma hotter than the surface of the sun ? and the whole dazzling show lasts less than a millisecond.
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Wombats Poop in Cubes and Science Has Thoughts About It
The wombat is the only known animal on Earth that produces perfectly cube-shaped droppings ? and scientists spent years puzzling over exactly how their bodies pull it off.
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Wombats Are the Only Animals That Poop Perfect Cubes
The common wombat ? Australia's chunky, barrel-shaped marsupial ? is the sole creature on Earth that produces cube-shaped droppings, and scientists only recently figured out the delightfully weird reason why.
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The Mantis Shrimp Sees 16 Colors and Still Gets It Wrong
The mantis shrimp has 16 types of color receptors ? over five times more than humans ? yet scientists found it's actually worse at distinguishing similar colors than we are.