Queen ants have one of the longest life-spans of any known insect - typically up to 30 years. Western harvester ant queens can live up to 40 years!
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A scorpion can hold its breath for up to 6 days.
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Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
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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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