There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
9
Meysi is one of the world's smallest dogs, measuring in at just 7cm tall, 12cm long, and weighing a meagre 250 grams (only slightly heavier than a hamster!)
11
The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
18
In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
41
Sandy, an African Penguin, has been in 'love' with her keeper at the Nuremburg zoo since 1996.
34
Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
243
The difference between antlers and horns is that antlers are shed each year and are made of bone while horns are kept for life and are made of living tissue and bone with a sheath that is very similar to human finger nails.
10
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).
12