The classic book Everyone Poops is a perfect example of truth in advertising. The cover even shows "everyone:" a rosy-cheeked child, a horse's butt, a bird, and...an apple with a bite taken out of it? What? Do apples poop after being bitten? The bigger question, perhaps, is this: do plants poop?
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Dogs are called "man's best friend," a title they earned from thousands of years of accompanying us in our daily waking lives. But as it turns out, all those good boys and girls might be wagging their tails and throwing up on the rug in dreamland as well. Here's what dogs (probably) dream about.
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Dogs have been our faithful companions for thousands of years, but there are still so many mysteries associated with the furry love machines. What are they thinking about? Do they love us as much as we love them? Perhaps most pressingly, what happens if they eat a grape?
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If you give typewriters to an infinite army of monkeys and let them bang away, they'll eventually type the complete works of Shakespeare. But soft! What stench through yonder nostrils break? 'Tis their poop, and those sons of simians might just throw it at you. Why would primates pelt you with poop?
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Attractions like Old Faithful only exist, though, because Yellowstone sits on top of an active supervolcano, a ticking geological time bomb.
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For many humans, chocolate is pretty much heaven in your mouth. However for dogs, death by chocolate isn't just a morbid dessert name. As any responsible dog owner will tell you, chocolate can be a one-way ticket to Casket Town for canines, and the trip to the afterlife is a rough one.
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Despite getting a bum rap from humanity for their Biblical association with evil and trickery, snakes play a vital role in the circle of life. They are known predators of a voluminous amount of species, and to many others they are a delicious, nutritious source of limbless, slithering protein.
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Snake Island is home to one of the deadliest snake species in the world and oh yeah, there are literally thousands of these golden lancehead snakes on Snake Island. Also Snake Island is a mere 110 acres, so the density of golden lanceheads on Snake Island is pretty darned high.
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We humans have done a lot on the Earth, although not every other species would agree we've done all good things.
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A billion dollars is a lot of money. It's hard to imagine how people become billionaires, but even stranger is that some billionaires lose it all.
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There's no real-life zombie threat to humans in the way pop culture imagines zombies, but some things come close, particularly for other animals.
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There are plenty of reasons to avoid the great outdoors. Some brave people have gone anyway, and have found some pretty awful things outside.
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Who can turn down a nature documentary featuring cute penguins, deer, or even the saga of a tight-knit wolf pack?
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Cats are cute and cuddly and fluffy but sometimes when you're petting them, they turn into biting machines. Why? What's wrong with the petting? You like petting! Here's why cats sometimes bite you when you're petting them.
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The Pisonia tree has super-sticky fruit that is super-delicious to many seabirds in the Pacific and Indian oceans. The tree also has super-sticky branches, so sticky that it can trap and kill birds who come for the seeds. Why does this happen? Scientists can't really say.
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All animals — regardless of shape or size — are awesome. But some animals are a little more impressive than others.
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Humans like to complain a lot, but life is pretty sweet for most, at least compared to animals. Here are animals that live insanely, ridiculously hard lives.
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From legendary sequoias to mysterious yews, let's take a journey around the world to find the oldest trees and learn how they've stuck around so long.
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Some of the biggest dogs in the world can rival human height when they stand on their back legs -- here are the largest dogs in the world.
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Some animals just don't want to be bothered by humans. Here are animals almost no one has ever seen.
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"Giant alligator" is an attention grabber. How big is the biggest gator?
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Media attention and accidents have convinced many circus patrons that circuses are cruel, and these circus animals might just agree.
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These terrifyingly huge prehistoric animals are smaller today, but back then they would have eaten you for breakfast.
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These pseudo-historical animals could give a few real animals, like boring bunnies or chickens, a real run for their not-fake money.
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These are the most incredible wilderness survival stories ever.
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These bizarre things actually happened at zoos. Animals can get real weird if you lock 'em up. Humans can get real weird around those animals, too.
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These bizarre things really happened at the Grand Canyon. Most people won't suggest that the GC is a sentient death monster, but ... we aren't most people.
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