A fascinating journey that sounds the stuff of an animated movie or a children’s book is about to come to a rather different sort of end.

On December 26th, a man by the name of Kevin Celli-Bird discovered an understandably exhausted pigeon resting in the backyard of his home in Melbourne, Australia.

The bird was from America.

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It's kind of hard to believe at first glance, but yes, they're actually pigeons.

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Shrew are many things. Sometimes venomous, sometimes able to walk on water, sometimes snake-killers, but always adoreable.

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Also know as the cigar shark for that one time a sailor mistook it for a cigar and only realized their mistake after trying to light it up—kidding of course— Isistius brasiliensis is shark of the family Dalatiidae. The genus name, Isistius, is based on Isis. No, not the terrorist group, but after Isis, the Egyptian goddess of light.

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