Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
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Ants tend to survive in a microwave because they find the coolest spot and wait!
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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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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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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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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There's a rare breed of pig that looks like a sheep.
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