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The
long-necked dinosaurs are called sauropods. Their necks allowed them to
eat leaves in the treetops that other dinosaurs couldn't reach. |
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Dodos lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian
Ocean until they all died out in about 1680. |
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The
potter wasp makes tiny vases from wet clay. She lays an egg in each one and
pops in a live caterpillar, sealing the vase so that the caterpillar cannot escape.
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Baby
reptiles have a special tooth to cut their way out of the egg. It drops off
once it's done its job. |
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Dragonflies
are the fastest flying insects. |
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There
are over 23,000 species of bony fish! |
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When
a beetle wants to fly it opens it armour casing and stretches out its wings. |
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Fish
breathe by taking oxygen from the water. They take the water in through their
mouths, pass it over their gills which extract the oxygen. Then the water is pushed
out of the gill slits. |
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Rabbits
have 60 babies a year. |
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The
heart is a muscle that pumps blood around the body every minute of the day.
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The
cockchafer beetle always fans out its feelers
before it flies. They tell it which way the wind is blowing. |
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Rhinos
horns are made of stuck-together hair. |
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Not
all bees like to live in hives. Many kinds of
bee live alone in burrows. |
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A
glacier is a slow river of ice. It creeps down
the valley taking large rocks with it. It melts as it reaches the warmer, lower
lands. |
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Dolphins
have up to 200 sharp pointed teeth for holding on to slippery fish.
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The
African pancake tortoise is endangered because
so many are caught and sold as pets. |
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Eagle
owls are the largest owls in the world. |
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The
biggest fish in the world is a whale shark. It is not dangerous as it lives
on plankton. |
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The
Hercules Emperor moth is the world's widest creepy-crawly.
From wing to wing it's the size of a dinner plate. |
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