A tortoise named Adwaita lived to 255 years old. To put it into perspective, he was born before the United States of America existed and his death was announced on CNN (1750-2006).
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15% of snails survive digestion by birds and are found alive in their droppings, potentially leading to the spread of snail populations.
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Using a remote-controlled camera, biologists caught dolphins getting high by sucking on puffer fish. They were even caught passing the puffer fish around.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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Dolphins have names for one another.
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