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.
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Sharks have been on the planet longer than trees.
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The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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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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