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.