A caterpillar grows roughly 27,000 times its size when it first emerges as an egg.

Scientists with high-speed cameras have discovered that rain drops are not tear shaped but rather look like hamburger buns.

The first fossilized specimen of Australopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the paleontologists' favorite song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," by the Beatles.

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