Sandy, an African Penguin, has been in 'love' with her keeper at the Nuremburg zoo since 1996.
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
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Sharks have been on the planet longer than trees.
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Blue whale arteries are large enough for humans to swim through and their hearts are the size of cars.
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Travis was a chimpanzee who socialized with humans since birth. He could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch TV using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner's horses, water plants, and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.
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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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