Top 10 Widely Believed Animal Facts That Are Completely Wrong

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1. Brontosaurus was a Huge Long-Necked Dinosaur

Source/Further reading:

http://earthsky.org/earth/why-do-bees-die-after-they-sting-you
http://science.howstuffworks.com/zoology/bee2.htm
http://www.pestworldforkids.org/bees.html/
http://library.thinkquest.org/04apr/01305/cloningEnglish/history/
http://www.roslin.ed.ac.uk/public-interest/dolly-the-sheep/technical-aspects-of-cloning/
http://ufwildlife.ifas.ufl.edu/venomous_snake_faqs.shtml
http://apps.who.int/bloodproducts/snakeantivenoms/database/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/qi/7995002/QI-Quite-Interesting-facts-about-deadly-poisons.html
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/08/21/poisonous-snakes-cant-resist-toxic-toad-tucker-or-can-they/
http://www.frog-shots.com/Who_says_RIBBIT_.html%20&%20http://www.beachwatchers.wsu.edu/island/essays/TreeFrogs.htm
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/owt/blowt-earwig.htm
http://www.entsoc.org/PDF/Pubs/Periodicals/AE/AE-2007/Winter/Buzz.pdf
http://www.pawsforwildlife.co.uk/common_earwig.php
http://rid-it.co.uk/types-of-pests/pest-control-rodents-rats-and-mice/%20http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20716625
http://wildlifegardenproject.com/wildlife/mammals/48-black-rat
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/12/american-buffalo-are-not-actually-buffalo/
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=buffalo
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/mar/22/germany.climatechange
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/5070830/Fish-oils-reduce-greenhouse-emissions-from-flatulent-cows.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/10/05/3029973.htm
http://www.entsoc.org/PDF/Pubs/Periodicals/AE/AE-2001/fall/busswords.pdf
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2006/02/23/1567313.htm
http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/dinos/dino_trivia.php
http://www.npr.org/2012/12/09/166665795/forget-extinct-the-brontosaurus-never-even-existed