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Fiction Animal News — Fiction
After a week of round-the-clock work, a small pufferfish has completed a perfectly symmetrical sand circle the width of a double bed and has refused all requests for an interview.
Fact-based Weird Facts
A baby flamingo hatches fluffy and pale grey, and it only turns that famous pink because of what it eats, a colour its parents can lose again while feeding it.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
A herd of ibex was seen standing on a near-vertical stone dam high in the mountains on Thursday, licking the wall, and a spokesgoat has asked everyone to calm down.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
For roughly forty seconds on Tuesday afternoon, the mob's lookout post was occupied by a meerkat whose eyes were closed, and the mob would like to know why.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
The cap was round, clean and undeniably blue, and after four minutes of silent inspection the bowerbird carried it back out of the garden and dropped it by the shed.
Fact-based Nature Did It First
A gecko can hang from a glass ceiling on perfectly dry feet, and once scientists looked at the whole foot rather than just its tiny hairs, they built a pad that grips like one.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
One roomy whelk shell turned up at low tide, and by the afternoon eleven hermit crabs had lined up by size and moved house in under a minute.
Fact-based Weird Facts
Three thousand microscopic animals were bolted to the outside of a spacecraft, the lids were opened, and most of them came back perfectly fine.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
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
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.