Octopi have eyelids and know how to wink. |
Spiders eat their own webs and recycle them for later use. |
Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump. |
A teaspoon of honey is the lifework of 12 bees! |
A dog's smelling power is 20 times greater than humans. |
There are giant hornets in Japan whose venom can melt human flesh. |
Ilha de Queimada Grande, an island in Brazil is quarantined because it's overflowing with deadly snakes! This island off the coast of Sao Paulo, Brazil, which is nicknamed "Snake Island" is home to the Golden Lancehead Viper. |
Niagara Falls completely froze in 1848 and again in 1936. |
The largest living organism is a fungus (Armillaria ostoyae). It covers 2,200 acres (890 hectares) and is responsible for the trees dying in the Malheur National Forest in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon. It is estimated to be at least 2,400 years old, possibly older. |
Female lions do 90% of the hunting. |