Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
14
In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
41
In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
20
Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
24
There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
10
Urechis unicinctus is a species of marine spoon worm that is widely referred to as the ‘penis fish’.
2