The Dodo has been extinct since the mid to late 1700s

The cheetah is the world's fastest land mammal.

In level flight, the Spine-tailed Swift is the fastest bird, clocked at 106 mph

Fact. I have an electric RC plane that goes slightly faster.

Fact. I have no idea how it does it.

Sharks are immune to cancer.

Incredible! There could be something in the shark's metabolism that could aid medicine in the fight against cancer.I personally think all the answers are to be found in nature anyway,and not always with man's 'inguinity' .

I am pretty sure that all the creatures which managed to survive a couple of hundred million years on earth have a metabolism like the sharks do.

A distinct possibility :yep:

Cattle can produce up to 180 litres of saliva in one day.

Don't let that word get out, ffs. We'll have pharma on one hand, slaughtering sharks to prevent the cure from getting out, and eco-people on the other, making a fortune on save-the-sharks-big-pharma-is-bad campaigns... meaning that Congress will immediately enact the "Shark Protection Act" and make it a felony to even look at a shark with both eyes at once, and then the companies will offshore the jobs to India, and the shark technical support hotline will be unintelligible, and then shark pharma stock will drop, and the economy'll implode, and then the sharks will rise up and overthrow us and then the moon will crash into the sun and the sharks will all leave and we'll be left here to die in the fireball.

Damn sharks.

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99% of the crocodile offspring are eaten in the fist year of life by large fish, monitor lizards, herons and ... adult crocodiles.

Good thing!

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.

Earthworms have 14 feet? That's awkward.

A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born.