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“Giant pandas have a "pseudo-thumb," an enlarged wrist bone that works like an extra thumb to help them grip bamboo stalks.”

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Reference: Smithsonian's National Zoo

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Exploding ant fact

There is an ant in Brazil that has a gland which causes the ant to explode like a bomb, spraying a sticky toxic
goo on everybody nearby. Now that's some hard core biology!

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