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FACTS OF MAMMALS

                         THE MOST ADVANCED & INTELLIGENT SPECIES.

1.      Giraffes have the longest tongue allowing it to consume even thorny leaves.

2.      It is said that animal with social behaviour like lions have more intelligence.

3.      Whales produce loudest sounds in animal kingdom, if a human being hears that at a close range he may lose his ear drums.

4.      Koalas are the only mammals which do not drink water the moisture that they take from the leaves is enough which comes from it's diet.

5.      Koala is the only mammal which spends its entire time eating eucalyptus leaves

6.      Mammals do not have pubic bone & clavicals & interclavical are not fused.

7.      Kangaroos are the fastest growing mammals from an inch (new born) to adult 6 feet.

 

8.      Asian female elephants have no tusks.

9.      A group of elephants eat 10-15 tons of grass a day; human beings would take 60-70 years to eat that much of food.

10.  Animals produce 1, 00,000 tons of dung every year & 75,000 tons of dung is used by dung beetle for laying eggs.

11.  Chimps can remember things better than horses.

12.  Cheetahs got that largest heart despite of their size.

13.  Some carnivores like tigers &  canines eat grass to improve digestion by adding some fibre through grass.

14.  Cheetah is the only big cat which can’t retract its claws.

15.   Most of the carnivores consist of razor carnassial through which they crake the bones & cut flesh.

 

                                                                      Figure 1 skull of a saber toothed tiger(xenosmilus)

16.  White tiger gene is obtained from the genes of royal Bengal tiger.

17.  Black panther aren't new species of cats, just a variation.

18.  Did you ever wonder, why humans have appendix, it is the remnant of cellulose digestive system of our ancestors.

19.  Cheetahs have the largest nostrils when compared to any big cat.

20.  There are over 1.7-1.8 million species of animals of that 5000 species are mammals.

21.  Mammals are highly evolved social animals.

22.  The largest mammal in the world is blue whale growing 100 feet.

 

23.   The smallest mammal in the world is bumblebee bat no less than an inch.

 

24.  For every 1 person in this world there are 1 million ant’s sounds very huge.

25.  The smallest mammal in regarding the mass is pygmy shrew.

26.  A male lion can consume 40-50 pounds of meat in one sitting.

27.  Male lion rest 21 hours a day while female go for hunting.

28.  Lion is the king of the forest & it is forbidden, but a bear can kill it.

29.   The skin of polar bear is black, but the fur is white.

                                                                                               

                                       

30.   A Tapir eats 200-400 pounds of leaves & fruits a day including poisonous leaves, at the night it eats clay or mud to dissociate poison molecules, making it the anti-poison.

31.  Monkeys eat charcoal to dissociate poison molecules.

32.  The dark lines on the face of cheetah allowing them to hunt even under the hot sun, hence they act as reflectors.

33.  Bat is the only mammal to take flight.

34.  The legs of bats are so thin & fragile that, it will easily break it's bone while walking so a bat hangs up-side-down.

35.   Bowhead whales have the longest life span of any mammal which is around 200 years.

                                                                 

36.   Sifaka is the only primate which walks sideways.

                                                  

37.   Vampire bats are the only mammals with antiseptic saliva which will give numbness to the skin.

                                                                             

38.  A baby kangaroo is just an inch long within 4-5 years it will grow up to 4 feet.

39.  If a kangaroo’s tail is lifted off the ground it can't jump.

40.  Just 80-85 cows are enough to give 1 gallon of milk.

41.  As the size increases there is a prominent reduction in the length of the tail   in primates.

42.  Peacock does not lay eggs cause they are male forms of pheasant.

43.  Giraffes do not have vocal cords

44.  A male lion's roar can be heard up to 8 km.

45.  No 2 patterns of tiger, cheetah, leopard, and zebra are same.

46.  The largest tiger weighed around 1200 pounds.

47.  The average weight of an elephant is less than weight of blue whales’ tongue.

48.  The eyes of Tarsier  are larger than its brain.

49.  Goats were best pets for early men.

50.  Goat has no gall bladder.

51.  Some mammals like rabbit eat their faeces which is more nutritive than the grass only during nights.

52.  Rabbits & lions are polygamous which mean 1 male will mate with many females.

53.  The largest cat weighs 23 kgs but it is on a diet.

54.  A dog smell is 1000 times better than man.

55.   Proboscis monkeys are the only monkeys with projection of skin on their nose.

 

Figure 8 proboscis monkey

56.  An angry hippo has red sweat.

57.  Hyenas have the largest bite force of any mammals (about 1000 pounds/sq. inch).

58.  Few scientists believe that kangaroo evolved from rats.

59.  The prehistoric whale was a land roaming dog like creature called pakicetus.

 

60.  The largest dog is Great Dane growing up to 7 feet while the smallest dog is chi Wawa growing few inches.

61.  Chow is the only dog without a pink tongue.

62.   Kangaroo is the only animal which can lift its body off the ground with its tail.

                                                                                                                                                 

63.  Duck build platypus & echidna are the only egg laying mammals.

64.   The African wild dog’s scientific name is lycaonpictus which means a painted dog.

                                   

65.  Grey hounds are the fastest dogs running about 40-50 kmph.

66.  An ant eater is 6feet in length but it's mouth is less than an inch.

67.  Man’s closest relative is chimpanzee. They meet 95% our body, some cases doctors even used chimp’s blood for transfusion.

68.  The only mammalian predator of Madagascar is fossa.

69.  Elephants can run as fast as 45-50 km/h.

70.  Clouded leopard has the largest canines of any big cat.

71.  The leader for the group of elephants is an alpha female not the male.

72.  New Zealand is the only island where the sheep population exceed the population of man.

73.  The heart of the blue whale is as big as a school bus.

74.  Dolphins sleep with their eyes open & half brain working.

75.  The largest dolphin is killer whale or orca.

76.  The longest standing mammal on the land in giraffe which is around 20feet.

77.  An elephant seal has 6 inch fact which is more or less equal to the elephant.

78.  3 tow sloths is the slowest mammal in the world.

79.The only poisonous mammal of North America is the N.American shrew.

80.  A dog can smell 1000 times better than a human being.

81.  A rhinosaurs horn is made of hair a kind of protein.

82.  Dolphins are the only animals with half brain working while sleeping.

83.  Dolphins are the only mammals with their eyes open while sleeping.

85.  A camel never stores the water in their hump in the form water.

86.  Camels are the only mammals with biconcave.

87.  A male lion after 1 year is left alone by its family, as it should become the alpha male of other pride.

88.  Cheetahs have the largest heart when compared to any big cat.

89.  A skunk is one animal you should never mess with because its scent is very very horrible.

90. Humans have remanent of nictitating membrane which is left as a pinck arch near the anterior side of the eye,this is used by our anscistor to prevent the dust from entering into their eyes.

91.  The largest bat in the world is flying fox.

92.  There is no carnivorous mammal in Australia except dingo.

93.  Cows can sleep while standing but they can only dream while sitting.

94.  Silver back gorillas are the only primates living at very high altitudes, even mountains.

95.  An anteater eats 10-20 ants per second

96.  Duck build platypuses are poisonous creatures with venom glands present near their legs.

97.Duck build platypuses are the only mammals with bills.

98.   Bactrian camel has 2 humps.

                                               

                                             

99.   Every feline stock before hunting its prey.

100. Over 1 million years ago single species of dog was separated into wolves & fox.

101.  Aye-Aye is a blizzard insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.

                                 

102.              A three toed sloth is the slowest mammal in the world.

103.                Only humans & gorillas are affected by Ebola virus.

                                           

104.              Duck build platypuses are poisonous creatures with venom glands present near their legs.

105.              A blue whales heart is as large as a school bus.

106.                Duck build platypus does not have nipples on their breast though it is a mammal & only males         have poisonous spine.

                                         

107.              Cenezoic era is the golden age of mammals.

108.              Mammals have evolved from a group of dinosaurs called as tetrapod.

109.    Red Kangaroo is the largest marsupial on earth with a length of 8-9 feet.

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FACTS OF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS

1.      REPTILES ARE THE GOD FATHERS OF LAND KINGDOM.

2.      There are over 8354 species of reptiles.

3.      Study of reptiles & amphibians is called as Herpetology.

4.      Snakes account 2700 species, lizards are 5200 species.

5.      Almost 1200 species of lizards have the poisonous saliva which is able to digests tissue within 10 hours.

6.      Komodo dragons have vestigial venom glands.

7.      Snakes got venom glands when they are yet to evolve from a lizard.

8.      It was proved that first venom gland was produced & then the hallow fangs as in case of snakes.

9.       Reticulated pythons are the longest snakes in the world growing up to 35 feet or more.

                                      

 

10.  The saliva of Komodo dragon has 80 species of bacteria.

11.  Komodo dragon is the largest lizard in the world growing up to 10 feet in length.

12.  A bit from Komodo dragon kills you in just 4-6 hours faster than the normal venom.

13.  The only venomous lizards in the world are the Mexico beaded lizard & gila monster.

14.  A crocodile has the largest bite force in animal kingdom.

15.  Crocs can't move their tongue as the tongue is attached to the upper part of mouth.

16.  The bite force of alligator snapping turtle is 2 times greater than lion which is around 1002 pound.

17.  Spine tailed lizards are the fastest reptiles in the world.

18.  A group & lizards are called longe.

19.  A group of crocodiles are called swamp.

20.  Tortoises can live up to 200 years not turtles.

21.  The reason for the huge life span of tortoises is because they are one of the slowest animals in the world with slow metabolism.

22.  The glasses of the big buildings are washed by using a wall gecko’s principle.

23.  Dwarf geckos are the smallest reptiles in the world growing up to 2-3cm.

24.  Toads are stouter than a frog.

25.  Species of toads produce bufotoxin from the poisonous glands called paratoid glands. 

26.  Frogs & toads release their eggs in white dense lather which consist of eggs that is called as spawn.

27.   The most poisonous frog is dart frogs, which has venom twice as strong as rattle snakes venom.

                                                       

            

28.   Jesus Christ lizard or a basilisk can literally walk on water forming air pockets.

29.  Flying snakes are known to cover distances like 600-700 meters.

30.  The fastest snake in the world is black mamba, going up to 20 km/h

31.  Birds are dinosaurs.

32.  It is believed that most of the bright colour frogs & toads are poisonous.

33.  Both birds & modern day reptiles are classified under same family called diapsid.

34.  Anacondas are the largest snakes in the world, weighing 200 kegs.

35.  Sea snakes are more poisonous than land snakes.

36.  All snakes are carnivorous.

37.  Amphibians are first to live on land.

38.  Any reptile if doesn't bask will die.

39.  Crocodiles have bony plates on the body even can’t piers through it.

40.  Largest reptile in the world is salt water crocodiles.

41.  All reptiles including a tortoise have to shed its skin.

42.  Any snake having blue eyes, is about to shed its skin.

43.  All snakes have come from a common descendent called the blind snakes.

44.  The pygmy leaf tailed gecko is the smallest reptile in the world.

45.  The Pinta island tortoise is most recently extinct tortoise.

46.  All amphibians respire through skin this is called cutenicious respiration.

47.  Cane toads where re located to Australia from Brazil, it seems that the population of cane toads is more in Australia than in Brazil.

48.   Gavials have primitive character like no other crocodile.

49.  Crocodile produce low frequency sounds which vibrate & raise water by half a feet.

50.  Most of the crocodiles are capable of killing & eating large prey but a gavial can’t because of its snout.

51.  A crocodile can hold its breath about 2 hours under water.

52.  Few reptiles are herbivores like green iguana.

53.  Amazingly Nile crocodile are even found in Madagascar.

54.  Crocodiles have amazing power of hearing among reptiles.

55.  Crocodile jaws are capable of crushing bone but it can even crack an egg very gently.

56.   Wood frogs are capable of surviving temperature about -40 to -50 degrees.

57.  The largest snake ever to live was titan boa it was about 50 feet in length.

58.  Crocodiles were land dwelling lizards like reptiles during period of dinosaurs rule.

59.  Chameleon has 3 different layers in their body to exhibit many different colours.

60.  Galapagos island tortoises are the world’s largest tortoises growing up to 6 feet & weigh 300-400 kegs.

61.  It is proved that turtles lay their eggs at the same spot throughout their lives.

62.  There are some reptiles whose pigmentation is more activated during breeding season like the Indian peninsular rock agamid. The above during breeding season & the bottom during normal conditions.

63.   European adder is capable of living in places like -10 to -12 degrees.

64.   The largest chameleon in the world is parson's chameleon of Madagascar about 1 feet.

65.   The only reptile of New Zealand is tuataras.

66.  King cobras are the only snake to build & guard its nest.

67.  All sea snakes are cobra family.

68.   All vipers have triangular shaped head.

                                                                    

                                                   

69.  Inland tipan become black during summer & olive green during spring season.

70.   Inland taipan is the most venomous snake in the world, just few ml of venom can kill 50, 00,000 mice.

71.  A chameleon has of vision of 360 degrees.

72.  Iguanas, komodo dragons have 2 hemipenises.

73.  A female komodo dragon can lay eggs without the sperm of male.

74.  If a frogs mucus is no more no its skin it will die.

75.   Lizards can give birth to living once; one such lizard is yellow spotted tropical night lizards.

76.  A thorny devil can eat about 500-600 ants per minute.

77.  Thorny lizards are capable of shooting blood from their eyes by building high pressure in their eyes when threatened.

78.   Yellow spotted salamanders are poisonous.

                                                        

79.   Axolotl salamanders can regenerate their limbs.

80.  A komodo dragon can smell the food up to 10 km, better than any other reptile.

81.  Few reptiles eat leaves & fruits.

82.  The most recently discovered reptile is bumblebee gecko.

83.  Komodo dragons like to eat rotten flesh.

84.  Crocodiles & alligators have strongest immune system of any reptile.

85.  There a snake called hundred pacer, people believe that after bitten by that snake the victim will die before taking the 100th step.

86.  When a frog, cockroach is allowed into a devastating tornado, we human will die but frogs & cockroaches never die.

87.  The largest crocodile to ever exist is Sarcasuchus which was about 40 feet from snout to vent.

88.  The bit force of the crocodile that it may lose its teeth.

89.  A vine snake is bizarre snake with horizontal pupil like drop.

90.   A ringneck snake is the only one with a corkscrew tail.

                                 

91.  Most of the lizards never take water from outside, as the water which is formed during metabolism is enough which is called metabolic water.

92.   The solmon island skink is the only skink with prehensile tail.

93.  The early amphibians developed into reptiles which in turn gave rise to dinosaurs & land dinosaurs which led to the formation of mammals.

94.   Some frogs are capable of flying from trees like the Wallace’s flying frog.

95.  There are over 1200 species of gecko around the world.

96.  There are over 2500 varieties of skinks on the earth.

97.  Chameleons have 3 layers of chromatophores on their body.

98.  Chameleons are the only reptile with 360 degree vision.

99.  All reptiles store most of the fats not in their stomach but in their tails.

100. Crocodiles have a 3rd eyelid called the nictitating membrane which is transparent    & which gives the crocodile a clear vision in the water.

101.   Water snake & the queen snake of north & South America are alike.

102.All sea snakes & desert snakes are refining their venom in form of potency.

103. All snakes are carnivorous.

104. A coral snake is the only elapid (cobra family) found in America.

105. There are much species which resembles one and the other like the coral snake which is highly poisonous & the scarlet king snake which is not venomous.

106. A king snake is well resistant to the rattlesnakes poison.

                                             

107. There are limbless lizards which resemble a snake; if it is a lizard it will blink its eyes.

108. It is believed that they used be a snake with hind limbs, which it uses it for escaping from the predators.

109.  There is a difference between eyes of a viper which is cat like (vertical pupil) & cobra species with a round pupil.

110.  Since snakes do not have eye lids they place their head at the centre of the coil to prevent falling of light.

111.                The largest viper of western hemisphere is the eastern diamondback rattle snake.

                              

112.              The stoutest viper is the gaboon viper & has longest fangs of any venomous snake.

113.                The longest venomous snake of Africa is the black mamba.

                                     

114.              There are over 23 species of crocodiles in this world.

115.              The only small lizard which can flick its forked tongue is the blue tongued skink.

116.                A thorny devil do not drink water by its mouth, instead it have hydroscopic skin which will transport the water to its mouth.

                                             

117.              A komodo dragons mouth consist of 80 species of bacteria of which more than 10-15 species could be use full for human beings.

118.              Boomslang is the only snake with sold fangs unlike being hallow which all snakes have.

119.              Boomslang is the only colubrid which can kill a human being.

120.              Stokes sea snake has the largest fangs of any sea snake.

121.              Most of the sea snakes are 10 times more venomous than a land snake in spite of that they are shy or having fangs in the rare end.

122.              A snake’s venom is able to cure cancer, liver diseases & even may diseases.

123.                A frilled neck dragon opens the over lapping scales on its neck & can still walk on 2     legs.

                                                                         BIRDS  or  AVES 

1.       THEY ARE RULERS OF AIR & QUEENS OF BEAUTY.

2.      Study of the birds is called ornithology.

3.      Birds where the second flying creatures on earth after the insects.

4.      Birds are covered with primary & secondary flight feathers, the primary flight feathers are used in lift & secondary flight feathers are useful for stability.

5.      There are about 10000 species of birds in the world.

6.      Birds are very close relatives of reptiles.

7.      The earliest dinosaurian bird produced feathers not for flight but for insulation.

8.       The largest bird to take flight is kori bustard which is about 4-5 feet in length.

9.      Ostrich is the largest & lays the largest eggs in the world.

10.   Peregrine falcon is the fastest flying animal in the world hitting a speeds of 360kmph.

 

11.  Some singing birds sing 24 hours to impress females.

12.  Peacock does not lay eggs, as it is a male breed peafowls are females & lay eggs.

13.   Most of the birds with a bent upper beak called tomial tooth are classified under order accipitrade.

                                               

14.  Most of the birds have more colour full vision than human beings.

15.   Birds have 6-7 X zoom in naturally, some birds like rappell’s vulture can see a dead prey from the altitudes of 10000-11000 meters from sky.

                         

16.  Some birds can close their nostrils.

17.  Wedge tailed eagle of Australia can kill a full grown kangaroo.

18.   Harpy eagle of South America kills & takes small human children weighing about2-5kegs to its nest.

                                                                                              

19.  Cassowary of Australia shows some characters of feathered dinosaurs.

20.  An ostrich never builds nest & lays eggs on the ground.

21.  Birds & crocodiles are classified under same system called diapsida as they have 2 holes on their heads.

22.   Birds are evolved from the dinosaurs like Archaeopteryx.

23.  Bird droppings are some kind of acid which is highly concentrated once fallen on your cloth it will bleach.

24.   Birds are endothermic animals & so they can even live in cold regions like the steller's eagle.

25.   There is bird named arctic tern it travels the longest distance during migration about twice the distance from earth to moon.

26.  Some male singing birds sing 24 hours a day to impress females.

27.  Some birds collect blue or shiny objects on its nest to impress females.

28.  Flying birds have hollow bones.

29.  Torrent ducks are capable of standing even on the most slippery rocks.

30.  Ostrich eye is bigger than its brain.

31.  The blue macaw is the largest parrot.

32.  Philippine eagle is the largest eagle in the words.

33.  The heaviest flightless bird in the world to ever exist is dodo about 50 kg

34.  The largest flying creature ever on earth is Pterosaurs whose wing span was about 45 feet.

35.  Albatross has the longest wingspan of any bird relative to its size about 12feet.

36.   Australian pelican has the longest beak of about 32 cm long.

37.  There are about 15-20 types of beaks in the nature.

38.  Parrot has same number of muscles as humans do & so they can whistle & even some times talk like humans.

39.  Birds are amniotic as the embryo is surrounded by amnion.

40.  A fast moving bird with a bent upper beak can smash through human’s cranium.

41.  Humming birds are the smallest birds.

42.  Humming bird wing beat 30-40 per seconds.

43.  Humming birds are the only birds which can fly backwards.

44.  Male penguins guard their eggs while females go for hunting & bringing the food.

45.   Condor vulture is the largest American bird.

46.  Velociraptor is a feathered dinosaur; they escape from predators by gliding from tree to tree.

47.  About one-third of birds can fly faster than a cheetah.

48.  The size of the feather can range from 2-40cm in length.

49.  Harp eagle are capable of caring up to 5-6 kg load on their backs.

50.  There are some birds which never drink water in their life as the water produced during metabolism is enough.

51.  Most of the birds have 10-20 times better vision than human.

52.  An Albatross eggs take 78 days to hatch.





53.  The ostrich egg takes about 2 or 2:15 minutes to completely get boiled.

54.  The bird heart will beat 1000 times when it is in the flight.

55.  Penguins never drink water but eat snow.

56.   Blue capped ifrita & hooded pitohui are poisonous birds, the poison come from the hidden glands of its wings.

                                                                                                             

57.   The dusky scrub fowls built the largest nests in the world of about 16 feet in length & 36 feet in diameter.

58.  Humming bird builds the smallest neat which is about 2 cm.

59.  Birds feed on insects, worms, even small birds.

60.  The most spectacular & beautiful bird is the lesser bird of paradise.

61.  The largest egg of any bird is the ostrich egg.

62.  A bird consists of 4 types of feathers.

63.  Even a bird consists of 3 fingers in its muscle.

64.  A baby bird consists of only down feathers.

65.  Every feather consists of a small hole at the tip through which nourishing takes place for feathers.

66.  Most of the high speed flying birds consists of a lid over the nostrils to prevent dust from entering.

67.  Birds are as lucky as they are descendants of Archaeopteryx which is a transition specie, paleontologists believe that a transition specie is 1 in 10,000 utmost rarest.

68.  Humming birds are the only once which can fly backward.

69.  It is proved that in embryonic stage of a bird it has teeth.

70.  It has been proved that the diet of many species of birds including pterosaurs (not a bird but dinosaurs) includes fishes.

71.  An owl can rotate its head about 180 degrees this is due to extremely flexible nick.

72.  Penguins are the only birds which have none hallow bones of Antarctica.

73.  After the birth of chick father will give a protein diet for first 2-4 weeks from mouth.

74.  The face of the owl acts as radar dish receiving even minute sounds.

75.  No other animal is covered with feathers like the birds.

76.  A bird’s beak is made of same protein as our hair is made hence their beaks grow life-long.

77.Dancing bird of Paradise its wings around 80 per second while dancing which is comparatively more than the wing beat of hummingbird

                           (JOINTED LEGS)ARTHROPODS FACTS

1.     Insects are the most diversified arthropods in the world.

2.     There are over 10-20 millions of insects in the world but we just know a million.

3.     Arthropods include spiders,scorpions,ticks,crustaceans,centipede,millipede & most diverse Insects.

4.     The study of insects is called ENTOMOLOGY.

5.       Butterflies like monarch butterfly are poison.

6.     Insects larvae are considered to one of the most protein diet.

7.       Caterpillar feed on leaves & grow 1000 times bigger which weighs around 2 pounds.

                                                                                                                                            

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8.     Insects are the first flying animals on the earth.

9.     You never see a flying insect walk on the land they only hop if their wings are removed.

10. A tick sucks so much of blood from the animals that a small size of quarter of a bean will become twice as large as a bean.

11.   Insect wings are made up of nervures connections.

12. Insects never talk to each other instead they communicate with smell which is called pheromone.

13.    On an average an insect beats 250 wings beats per second but midges beat as many as 1000 times a second.

                                                                                       

14.   Goliath bird eating spider is the largest spider in the world growing around 30-32 cm

15. Brazilian wandering spider is the most venomous spider in the world.

16. Insects are covered by minute hair like structures called Trichobotria which alerts from incoming predator.

17. The most common spider in the world is daddy long leg.

18. A honey bee produces about 3 million eggs in her life span.

19. A mosquito takes about 21 days to complete it's life cycle only in the stagnant water.

20. Most of the flying insects mate in the mid flight which is called nuptial flight.

21. Person who eats more bananas is attracted by more mosquitos.

22. All mosquitos are attracted to blue colour.

23. An house fly consist of 2 eyes with 4000 hexagonal facets(small blocks).

24. If all house flies & mosquitoes are eradicated there no imbalance in the ecosystem.

25. Bullet ants have one of the painful stings in insect kingdom.

26. Trap jawed ants have the highest bite force in animal kingdom relative to its size.

27. A queen of honey bee's is 10 time larger & has a life span of 5 years.

28. Praying mantis are the largest tropical insects in the worlds growing about 30 cm.

29. The largest arthropod ever was the sea scorpions.

30. A grass hopper can jump 30 times it's body length.

31. Fire flies have luminescent bacteria in them & hence they produce light.

32. The largest butterfly is the Queen Alexandra butterfly.

33. The fastest flying insect is the dragon flies.

34. The shortest life span of any animal is may fly which is around 1 hour.

35. Insects attain the fastest sexual maturity of any creature on this planet.

36.   The largest scorpion is emperor scorpion.

37.   The most venomous scorpion is the death stalker.

38. Black wasps & Hornet are the Asian deadliest killers.

39. All insects have antennae except Arachnids.

40. It takes about 50,000 silk moths for extraction of 1 kg silk.

41. Most of the entomologists believe that insects are the first creatures to take flight.

42. House flies used to transmit a disease called Spanish flue which wiped out 2/3rd population of Europe.

43. The deadliest animal in the world is the mosquito.

44. There are several 1000s or 10000s of insects yet to be discovered.

45. For every 1 person in the world there about 1 million ants.

46.   Bombardier beetle releases a chemical substances so hot that the temperature range around 100-110 degrees centigrade.

47. Goliath beetle is the largest insect in the world.

48. All flying insects can float on water.

49. You will never see a flying insects walking in on land.

50. A female mantis will rip off males head after mating unless if he gets lucks.

51. A female black widow also kills male black widow after mating & hence the name.

52. The dung beetle stores its eggs wrapped around the dung 5 times bigger than its size.

53. A cockroach can survive without its head up to 3 weeks, and dies only because of starving.

54. Cockroaches can survive in the temperatures around 400-500 degrees centigrade.

55. The funnel web spider & red back spiders are the deadliest spiders of Australia.

56. The desert six eyed sand spider is the deadliest of Sahara.

57. Spiders have 6 -8 eyes.

58. Surprisingly DNA of dinosaurs has been found embedded in stomach of dead mosquito which was trapped in the centre of amber as you have seen in Jurassic park.

59. Male mosquitoes do not feed on human blood.

60. Ticks suck blood of animals & become 10 times bigger than it's size which is around 1000 gallons of blood at single time.

61. Spiders & Scorpions do not have teeth & so they produce a digestive juice & drink the pulp of the killed animals.

62. All insects lay eggs except Scorpions.

63. Some living scorpions reflect UV ray so they are seen in different colour.

64. Beetles have metallic coloured wings which are used in jeweller.

65. A tarantula can live 2 years without food.

66. Maggots are so healthy that some people around the world have adopted eating them with cheese.

67. Blood of cockroach is white since there is no RBCs.

68. Cockroaches can eat any organic matter.

69. Insects are the only creatures which were not evolved from pre-existing dinosaurs.

70. No insect can fly above 400-500 feet; their body structure is restricted only to certain height.

71. The colours on the butterfly wings are formed by the pigment called cromatophores, this is no fragile that if we catch hold of wings the pigments will fade.

72.   There is a caterpillar called the Assassin Caterpillar which is capable of killing 5 humans.

                                                              

73. The main difference between butterfly & moth is that butterfly consists of a proboscis for sucking nectar & moths don't.

74. In the deep caves of Asia pseudo scorpions are found.

75. The African borrowing cockroach is the largest cockroach growing around 25cm long.

76. ALL insects, spiders are invertebrates.

77. All insects have homologous mouth parts that are they have same function but differ in structure according to food habits.

78. Most of the insects are tropical living & very few are cave dwelling.

79. Insects have stink glands on their body by chance if you tough that it will be a horrible smell.

80. The desert centipede is the most poisonous centipede.

81. Ants are the only animals which don't sleep.

82. Honey bees visit around 1 million flowers for nectar everyday

83. All insects are oviparous.

84. The hairs of the tarantula cause severe itching.

85. After mating a female praying mantis kills male praying mantis.

86.  An ant can life 100 times its own body weight.

87.  A rhinoceros beetle is the longest beetle in the world.

88. Insects like spider wasps’ smell through their legs.

89. It is proved that only some spiders produce milk apart from mammals which they use it for producing silk thread.

90.  All millipedes are detritivores they feed on decaying matter.

91.   The brown recluse is one the most deadly spider in the world.

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92. Spiders of the family troglobitidae have no eyes as they live in cave & are called cave spiders.

93.The ant mimic spiders are just like ants but with an extra pair of legs.

94.During mating a female honey bee receives 90 million sperms at a single time.

95. Mantises are so powerful & camouflaged that they could even take down a humming bird which has come for nectar.

96. Most of the male tarantulas have palpal-tarsi which is modified part found only in adult males which helps in preventing the attack of female on male during copulation.

97. The diving bell spider is the only spider to live entirely under water.

98. Diving bell spiders breath through its spiracles which is surrounded by the air bubble.

99. Lobsters have 2 pairs of antennae in which one pair of it is used for excretion in the name of green glands.

100. Caterpillar has 3 pairs of pseudo legs which take a rectangular shape & does't do have legs on some segments.

                                                                    OCEAN CREATURES

1.      The oceanic creatures are the most diversified creatures in the world.

2.      These are the only animals with no geographical barriers.

3.      There are about 4-5 millions of these creature but more than 70% is yet to be discovered.

4.      Ocean is the birth of life which is also called as Haldane soup.

5.      The longest creature in the world is the bootlace worm which of over 200 feet only found in the ocean beds

6.      Elm is one of the rare animals with both gills & lungs.

7.      Lamprey has the highest number of teeth relative to its size.

8.      Pirosoma is the most bioluminescent animal in the world.

9.      Sea creatures are the first animals to detect a tsunami.

10.  Cone shell is one of the most poisonous animals in the world.

11.  Quahog is a kind of shell having longest lifespan which is over 400-450 years.

12.  An Antarctic sponge is the oldest known oceanic creature one of its specimen is about 1,500 years old.

13.  The giant sunflower starfish is the largest starfish in the world.

14.  Fire urchin is one of the deadliest of its kind.

15.  Starfishes do not have brain.

16.  The only well-developed sense organ in starfishes is the sense of touch.
  
17.If an alpha female cyclone fish dies male takes the position of female.

18.Mantis shrimp has one of the most powerful claws which is capable of cutting glass.

19.The Transparent tunicate is 97% made of water.

CEPHALOPODS

1.      Cephalopods include octopus, squid & cuttlefish.

2.      Octopus & squids have 8 tentacles while cuttlefish has 10 tentacles.

3.       The largest squid is the giant squid growing around 20 feet in length.

4.      The largest octopus is the Pacific giant octopus.

5.      A chameleon changes it's colour in 1min but an octopus changes it's colour in 3-5 sec.

6.      All cephalopods grow their arms after it’s cut.

7.      All cephalopods use jet Proportionality mechanism to escape.

8.      An octopus releases poisonous ink to escape from predators.

9.      Only cuttlefish & octopus have the ability to change colours.

10.  Octopus has the smallest brain in animal kingdom.

11.  An octopus can pass through the hole which is about 20 cm in diameter.

12.  ALL cephalopods share a common thing they are suckers, the poisonous beak to give a bone crushing bite.

13.  The most intelligent invertebrates.

14.   The most poisonous octopus is blue ring octopus 10,000 times potent than cyanide.

15.  The mimic octopus can mimic 10-12 sea organisms like a snake, eel, fish, a sea weed etc.

16.  An octopus will lay 2millions of eggs in one time.

17.  Since cephalopods have poor vision they come with the since of touch through suckers.

18.  An octopus has 1, 00,000 suckers on the tentacles.

19.  All cephalopods are invertebrates.

20.  Some octopus can change their body shape according to the environment making them the ultimate blenders.

21.  Most of the octopus is benthic.

22.  There are no bones in the tentacles of Cephalopod.

23.  Baby octopuses are 2 cm in length or even less.

24.  Squids have the largest eyes in the animal kingdom grow to the size of beach ball.

25.  Cuttlefishes don't have to kill their they can even hypothesis their prey by continues flow of lights through the body.

26.  Cephalopods are closely related to mammals in regarding their behaviour.

27.  One of the fears predator in the ocean dark world is the red devil called as Humboldt squid.

                                                        FISHES

1.      THE MOST DIVERSIFIED ANIMALS IN THE WORLD.

2.      The first formed living organisms are the FISHES.

3.      Fishes are gave rise do the land dinosaurs.

4.      Fishes gave rise to the amphibian where are the fins of the fishes are modified to the limbs for walking.

5.      Amphibians are the birth point of all land dwelling creatures.

6.      Fishes-Amphibians-Primitive reptiles-Dinosaurs-small land dinosaurs-birds-modern dinosaurs-MAMMALS.

7.      The largest fish is whale shark growing around 60 feet in length.

8.      The most poisonous fish in the world is the stone fish.

9.       The mud skipper is the only fish which can even survive without water.

10.  Fishes are the only creatures which come in more than 500-600 different colours.

11.  They are the first animals to have gill slits.

12.  The largest predatory fish is great white shark.

13.  The golden fish if taken to a dark room will become pale.

14.  The exoskeletons of fishes are scales.

15.  The lung fishes are the only fishes with internal nostrils.

16.  Keeping an aquarium in the home will cure disease like depression.

17.  The dead leaf fish is a dead leaf fish.

18.  A shark has 30,000 teeth in the life time.

19.  The largest shark to ever live is the MEGALODON.

20.  The most slowest animal in ocean is sea horse.

21.  Male sea horses will take care of the children not female.

22.  IN sea horses male has brood pouch.

23.  Sharks are the only animals with movable upper jaw.

24.  The fastest sea animal is sale fish which is about 110kmph.

25.  The fastest shark in the world is the mako shark.

26.  The most highly evolved shark is the hammer head shark.

27.  ALL sharks small holes under the mouth which is called as AMPULLAE OF LORENZINI.

28.  The flying fishes fly in the air to escape from the predators like shark.

29.  All sharks are cartilaginous fishes.

30.   Sunfish is the heaviest of all bony fishes.

                                                                     

                                           

31.  Some fishes migrate from salt water to fresh water for laying eggs.

32.  Salt water fishes like shark store urine in their bodies.

33.  The lion fish is one of the poisonous fishes in the oceanic world.

34.  Puffer fishes are poisonous which was found accidentally in a research.

35.  All fishes swim horizontally but sea horses don't.

36.   A red bellied piranha is one the most dangerous carnivorous fishes capable of killing a human being too.

37.   Fishes which live in the deep oceans like angler fish produce light on their own with the association of bacteria.

38.  A shark skin is made up of backward serrated teeth.

39.  It is proved that wearing a shark dress while swimming will allow you to move more swiftly.

40.  A shark can smell blood in 10000 gallon of water.

41.  The bull shark kills more people than any other shark.

42.  Most of the fishes are acrodont & monodont,that means the tooth of fish is not having a root & all teeth are of same kind.

43.  The perfect blend is made by leafy sea dragon which was discovered in 2007.

44.  Torpedo ray consist of electric organs & can deliver 2000-3000 volts of electricity.

45.  Cod-liver oil from sardine & shark liver oil from sharks have highest concentration of Omega 3 fatty acid & vitamin D.

46.  All fishes are ammonotelic which is a deadly product of excretion & can't store it in the body for 4-5 hours or even less.

47.  The underwater wrecks are home for the formation of the new species which was recently discovered.

48.  Amazon River dolphins are one of the very few fresh water dolphins.

49.  Bull shark kills more people than any other shark.

50.  Most brands of lipstick contain fish scales.

51.   There is a fish which can fly off the surface of water they are called flying fish; they do this as they have overlapping fins.

                                                                                                                                          

52.  Although fan toothed fish is only an inch its teeth is as large as humans teeth.

53.  Cat fishes have 27500 while human have 7000 taste buds.

54.  A great white shark is of the rarest fish which can rise its temperature by 2-4 degree centigrade which is useful in hunting as it is cold blooded.

55.  Only fishes to have eyelids are the sharks.

56.  As fishes grow they never produce new scales instead the scales on the body grow to the size they are called as growth rings just like a tree has to determine the age of it.

57.One of the most strangest fish is the viperfish which liver in the deep sea.

58.On the other hand one of the most beautiful face  meat the red lipped batfish.

59.   Rough eye Rockfish & koi fishes are having the longest lifespan of any fish which is over 210 years.

                                                                 

60.Frilled shark is considered as living fossil why? take a look cause it is one most primitive sea creature.

61.Nurse shark has antennae like no other shark.

62. Stonefish is the most poisonous fish.

                                           JELLYFISHES

1.      THE MOST MYSTERIOUS CREATURES IN THE WORLD.

2.      They don't have eyes, brain, blood, heart all transparent made of 96%of water & rest is organic matter.

3.      Some jellyfishes have 4 eyes allowing them a 360degree vision.

4.      The number of tentacles may range from 4 to 25-30 or even more.

5.      The largest jellyfish is the arctic lion's mane jelly fish growing up to 150-175 feet in length (the largest ever).

6.       The smallest jelly fish is the Irukandji growing no less than an inch or so.

7.      The most deadly jellyfish is the box jellyfish capable of killing a human being in less than a minute.

8.      All jellyfishes are social or gregarious creatures living in groups.

9.      Just like the cephalopods they use principle of jet proportionality for locomotion.

10.  Some scientists consider jellyfishes are the second life forms as they are included in the list of pre-historic oceanic creatures they lived around 650-700 million years ago so they out dated both dinosaurs & even crocodiles.

11.  The jellyfishes are mainly divided based up on their body colour some are coloured & some not.

12.  Some jellyfishes are edible & can be eaten.

13.  The deadly jellyfish called the Portuguese man of war is known to deliver current shocks.

14.  A jellyfish tentacle consists of millions of small spines called nematocysts.

15.  Jellyfishes have got the fastest biological contact in animal kingdom in terms of delivering the venom.

16.  The blue bottle is so mysterious that even trans-meters do not work on them.

17.  A slick from the tentacle of deadly jelly fish may be little itchy kind of thing but the next moment you die.

18.  The victims who survived the attack of jellyfishes has a permanent scars of tentacles on their body.

19.  Every jellyfish has to undergo the larval stage called polyp.

20.  There is a jellyfish called IMMORTAL JELLYFISH is really immortal before it's death it will again undergo the larval stage called polyp & the life continue so.

21.  Jellyfishes undergo both sexual & asexual life cycle.

22.They become crazy when red light is allowed to fall on them & violet light is considered as soothing light for them because of the energy of the light,

                                                 CRABS

1. Crabs are called as decapods that mean they have 10 legs.
2. All crabs are braced with pedipalps(claws) for holding things.
3. Crabs have a great delicacy in dinner.
4. Every crab in the world is equipped with hard shell on their body.
5. The Japanese spider crab is the largest crab in the world it's leg span is about 12feet.
6. The yeti crab is the most recently discovered species.

8. Horse shoe crab is the living fossils because they didn't undergo any evolutionary change since 100million years.

8. The smallest of all crabs is the pea crab.

10. Crabs, spiders, scorpions are classified under same phylum called Arthropods.

11.   Most of the crabs are omnivorous eating both hydrophytes & sea animals.

12. Crabs don't have teeth in their mouth instead they are in it's stomach.
13. In crabs the head & thorax are combined to form cephalothorax.
14. King crabs & hermet crabs are otcopoda that means they have only 8 legs.
15. The Japanese crab lives in the deep oceans & since it devoulped long legs.
16. The most colourfull species are the sally lightfoot crab.
17. The claws of Fiddler crab are the largest, larger than its own body size.
    
18. The excretory organs of crab are the green glands.
19. Crabs show commensalism that association between a sea urchin & the crab, the urchin will give defence & the crab will give free ride putting it on its back.
20. All crabs move sideways because they can't move their legs forward & backward.
21. Crabs never eat food directly they must inject a digestive enzyme which liquefies the food, then they consume.
22. Unlike other sea creature crabs have 2 pairs of antennae.
23. The average lifespan of crab is 10-15 years.
24. A hermit crab which is blue in colour can snap a piece of wood into 2.
25. Hermit crabs have gills.

              DINOSAUR AND PRE HISTORIC CREATURES.

1. All dinosaurs are covered with scales on their body.
2. The study of the dinosaur fossils is called PALEONTOLOGY.
3. There are 3 main periods of dinosaurs called the Triassic, Jurassic, cretaceous.
4. Ankylosaurs are the only creatures with a bony eyelid.

1. The largest carnivore dinosaur is the Spinosaurs which was about 50 feet.
2. The most deadly creature ever to exist is the T-Rex.
3. The bite of a T-Rex is about 8000-10000 pounds/inch on the other hand the bite force of human beings is about 30-32 pounds/inch.
4. Amphibiens gave rise to dinosaurs.
5. Helicoprion is one of the strangest shark.

1. Most of the evolution of smaller animals is due to deadly land dinosaurs.
2. Whales would not have been evolved from a small wolf like mammals without a fearsome dinosaur.
3. Dinosaurs appeared around 300 million years ago.
4. The first ever bird fossil found was the ARCHEOPTERYX.
5. Early dinosaur’s birds did not have hollow bones & so they could not fly.
6. In an experiment scientists grew feathers on the scales of the bird which could explain the birth of bird from dinosaurs.
7. The largest claw of any dinosaurs was the spinosaurs claw which grew about 5 inches or even more.
8. During Jurassic period crocodiles where small lizard like reptiles on the ground.
9. The largest dinosaurs ever to exist the amphicoelias fragillimus which was about 175-200 feet in length.

19. The largest animal to take flight is the Quetzalcoatlus which had a wing span of 45 feet, it was taller than a giraffe while standing.

20. Triceratops is the only dinosaurs which had a ball like structure in the place of neck allowing them to rotate their heads & piercing with their horns.
21. The descendant of the rhinosaurs was the toxodon

                                                             

22. It was the late Triassic period when the large T-Rex was evolved from a small dinosaur called guan long.
23. A part from mammals only dinosaurs and the birds where highly social.
24. Dinosaurs close their eyes by shutting their lower eyelid unlike mammals closing their eyes with upper eyelid.
25. All dinosaurs’ lay eggs from small too big.
26. The first feathery dinosaur was the velociraptor.
27. Sarcosuchus was a 40 feet giant crocodile.

     

28. .Pterosaurs had a beak which was 5 feet long, but modern pelicans grow their beaks about 1 foot.

29. A T-Rex roar can be heard up to 30-35 kilometres.
30. Embryos of human being, bird, dinosaurs have same features like a tail, teeth in birds.
31. A dinosaurs DNA was found to be present in the mosquito which was trapped right at the centre of the amber (stone).
32. Longisquama is a rare dinosaurs to have the logest & most strangest spines on it's back but the function is still unknown.

29. All carnivores’ dinosaurs are classified under theropods.
30. All herbivores giant are classified under sauropods.
31. Mossosaurs was a 60 foot giant marine reptile which draged sauropods into the water.
32. Megalodon was a 70 foot giant shark.

       Dimetrodon is less reptile & more mammal. All reptiles including dinosaurs have excellent sense of smell.

36. The largest snake to ever exist was the titan boa which grew 40-50 feet in length which was 3 feet wide.
37. Sharovipteryx is one of the rarest dinosaurs to have wings on it hind limbs

36. The function of the plates on the back of stegosaurs is still not known, however some palaeontologists believe that it was used in radiating heat.

39. Terror birds are so large that their main course of diet included horses.

40. The largest frog to ever exist was the beelzebufo (prehistoric) which was around 2 feet or more.

                                                         

41. The largest bird to ever exist is the Argentavis which lived around 6 million years ago & had a wing span of 25 feet.

         

42. The largest mammoth was the Songhua river mammoth which was around 20-23 feet while standing
43. There is a transition specie between fishes and 4 legged tetrapod which is amphibian called Itchyostega.

44. The largest mammal which ever lived on the earth was the Indricotherium which was around 30 feet while standing.

                       

45. Jaekelopterus was a giant 10 foot sea scorpion which lived in fresh water.
46. The earliest Ape called luci was thought to be around 8 feet in length.
47. According to Sir Charles Darwin due to the hot sun of the Silurian period, there was early drought in the lake so fishes force fully developed lungs & stepped out of the lack as a amphibians.
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49. Velociraptor had its wings even on its legs, hence they are called the rare 4 winged dinosaurs.

49. The largest centipede to ever exist was the artheropleura.

50. The largest bear to ever exist was the cave bear.
51. The largest big cat to ever exist was the American lion.