What are some fascinating or surprising facts about animals, plants, or other aspects of the natural world?
- Fleas can jump 350 times its body length.
- Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards.
- Crocodiles cannot stick their tongue out.
- Starfish do not have a brain.
- Slugs have 4 noses.
- Only female mosquitoes bite.
- Polar bear skin is black!
- The only mammal capable of flight is the bat
- A polar bear's hair is not white – it's colourless. ...
- A giraffe has seven bones in its neck, which is the same as a human has, but they are much larger.
- The pattern of wrinkles on a gorilla's nose is unique to each one and is known as a 'nose print'. ...
- There are no male or female earthworms
- Plants can count. Carnivorous plants like sundews and pitcher plants are fascinating as they are, and the way they trap and consume insects has fuelled science fiction stories about killer plants. ...
- Plants can hunt. ...
- Plants can fight. ...
- Plants can smell. ...
- Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree
- The smell of freshly-cut grass is actually a plant distress call
- There are over 200,000 identified plant species and the list is growing all the time
- 90 percent of the foods humans eat come from just 30 plants