In 2005, a girl in Ethiopia was kidnapped and later saved by three wild lions. The lions chased off her kidnappers and stayed with her until the police found her. The link to her story is shown here:
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna8305836

Snakes and lizards flick their tongues in the air to capture scent particles. In other words, they smell with their tongues.

During its lifetime, an oyster changes its sex from male to female and back several times.

The spider Calponia harrisonfordi was named for the star of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Star Wars,” as a thanks to Harrison Ford who narrated a documentary for the London Museum of Natural History in 1994. The spider itself was discovered in 1993 and is very tiny, around 5 millimeters in length, and lives in California.