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Fact-based Weird Facts
Under ordinary light a platypus is plain brown, but under an ultraviolet lamp its fur glows blue-green, and scientists still disagree about whether the glow does anything at all.
Fact-based Word Journeys
A popular story says kangaroo means I don't understand, but the word was a real name for a big grey kangaroo, written down beside a river in 1770.
Fact-based Odd Places
On a small island off Western Australia sits a lake so pink it looks painted, and a glass of its water stays pink too, thanks to some very salty tiny residents.
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 Weird Facts
Under a microscope a koala's fingertip carries the same loops and whorls a human one does, close enough that specialists have struggled to tell the two apart.