26Mangalitsa Pig: Wooly Swine
The Mangalitsa pig possesses wool resembling that of a sheep.
27. Almost all shells open on the right-hand side, with the exception of a few snail species whose shells open on the left. If you find a shell that opens on the left (as long as it's from a normally right-hand species), you have a rare shell, sometimes highly sought by collectors.
28. None of the native bee species in Australia are true honey bees. Social species of native bees do produce honey, but not much, as they are relatively primitive bee species. The bees that do produce honey store it in small resinous pots, resembling bunches of grapes.
29. A drunk man in Thailand beat the last living specimen of Schomburgk's deer to death, resulting in the extinction of this deer species.
30. After 15 years of searching, a man found a species of Australian Nocturnal Ground Parrot believed to have been extinct for 100 years. His search began when he found a feather of this bird on a truck and traced it back to the farm of an old Indigenous gentleman.
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31Death Camas: Lethal Pollination
The Death Camas plant is so toxic that it has only one known pollinator. A specialist mining bee visits the plant, tolerating its toxins, while others are fatally poisoned. The toxic bulb in one species, Toxicoscordion venenosum var. venenosum, is highly poisonous.
32. Praying Mantises have never been an endangered species, and it has always been legal to kill them in the United States. The contrary claim has been an urban legend circulating since the 1950s.
33. There are male-only species of clams that reproduce by having their sperm fertilize the eggs of other clam species, thereby excluding most of the egg's DNA.
34. Stalking predators, whether mammals or birds, tend to have yellow or light-colored irises, whereas predators that run after their prey and prey species themselves tend to have dark eyes.
35. Charles Darwin predicted the Madagascan hawkmoth, a species of hawkmoth with a proboscis nearly 30 centimeters long, in 1862 after observing a sample of an orchid specimen with an extremely long nectar tube. Scientists finally discovered this species in 1903.
