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Tardigrades Spent Ten Days in Open Space and Lived
Three thousand microscopic animals were bolted to the outside of a spacecraft, the lids were opened, and most of them came back perfectly fine.
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Beavers Apologise for Unannounced Overnight Roadworks
The stream was three metres wide on Monday evening; by Tuesday morning it was a pond, the footpath was underwater, and nobody had been consulted.
Fact-based Weird Facts
Sloths Are Secretly Excellent Swimmers
Slow on the ground, sloths float thanks to gas from digesting leaves, keep their noses up like a snorkel and swim about three times faster than they walk.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Pond Frogs Postpone Evening Chorus Citing Sore Throats
The frogs of Millbrook Pond have called off tonight's chorus, and one small tree frog has flatly refused to go along with it.
Fact-based Weird Facts
Koalas Have Fingerprints Almost Identical to Ours
Under a microscope a koala's fingertip carries the same loops and whorls a human one does, close enough that specialists have struggled to tell the two apart.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Ants Complete Bridge Three Days Ahead of Schedule
The crossing was built out of the workforce itself, opened to traffic before it was finished, and will be dismantled by walking away.
Fact-based Weird Facts
The Shrimp Whose Punch Boils the Water
The mantis shrimp swings its club so fast that the water in front of it boils into bubbles, and their collapse adds extra damage and tiny flashes of light.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Sheep Issue Statement on Being Counted
The flock has confirmed it is aware of the practice, considers the figures broadly accurate, and would like the jumping to stop.
Fact-based Cosmic Questions
Where Does a Lap Go When You Stand Up?
A cat can find one instantly, it holds a plate perfectly well, and the moment you get out of the chair it is simply not anywhere.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Fox Returns Single Shoe, Offers No Explanation
The boot was taken from the doorstep in June. It came back to the same doorstep in September, cleaned and facing the house.