The ant, in comparison to its size, is one of the strongest animals in the world. A single ant can carry 50 times its own body weight and even work together in a group to move larger objects!
Female mosquitoes locate hosts
Female mosquitoes locate hosts by detecting emitted carbon dioxide,
lactic acid, octenol and body heat. In fact, a mosquito can sense
exhaled carbon dioxide from up to 75 feet away.
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Mating season of guinea fowls takes place at the end of the rainy season.
Jellyfish Lake in the Philippines contains more than 13 million jellyfish.
Dinosaurs lived on all the continents, including Antarctica.
The largest dinosaur eggs were as large as basketballs. The bigger the
egg, the thicker the shell. So if the eggs had been larger, dinosaur
babies probably would not have been able to get out.
Honey bees have 170 odorant receptors, compared with only 62 in fruit flies and 79 in mosquitoes.
Ninety-eight percent of adoptions that take place in Japan are of male
adults, so family businesses can stay within those families.
There are 16,000 species. Most are solitary insects; only about 5 percent are social bees, the most common being the honeybee.
Like Wolverine, the liver is the only organ that can completely
regenerate. As little as 25% of the original liver mass can regenerate
back to its full size.
Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 160 million years, from the Triassic
period around 230 million years ago, through the Jurassic period and
until the end of the Cretaceous period around 65 million years ago.