15% of snails survive digestion by birds and are found alive in their droppings, potentially leading to the spread of snail populations.
1
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
Urechis unicinctus is a species of marine spoon worm that is widely referred to as the ‘penis fish’.
2
The two oldest cats on record lived to 38 and 34 years old, both were owned by the same owner and lived off a diet of bacon, eggs, broccoli and coffee.
12
The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
8
The largest earthworm on record was found in South Africa and measured 22 feet.
151
Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
6