| A snail can stay asleep for 3 years. |
| There are around 20 million microscopic creatures on just one square inch of human skin. |
| The shiny coating on various candies is called 'shellac' - a resin secreted by the female lac bug, on trees in the forests of India and Thailand. |
| Platypuses are the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth. These mammals are poisonous. |
| Figs have digested wasps in them. |
| Dolphins torture Porpoises to death for pure fun. |
| Yale University students have discovered a fungi, Pestalotiopsis microspora, in Amazon which survives on a steady diet of polyurethane (Plastic) alone and that too in an anaerobic (oxygen-free) environment that is close to the condition at the bottom of a landfill! |
| Dolphins entertain themselves by creating underwater bubble rings. |
| When a caterpillar cocoons, it completely melts its body and the fluid is used to make the butterfly! |
| A mosquito's saliva acts as an anesthetic so one usually doesn't notice when a person is bitten. |