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Animal Facts
Dragonflies existed over 300 million years ago, long before dinosaurs, with some prehistoric species having wingspans as large as 2.5 feet.
Due to their intelligence and agility, ferrets have been employed to run cables through confined spaces.
When bumblebees flap their wings, they generate a positive charge, which transfers to the flowers they land on. This tells other bees not to visit the flower.
Humans were not the first living creatures in space; fruit flies earned that title when they were launched aboard a U.S. rocket in 1947 to study radiation exposure.
In Texas, the feral hog population is so bad that they’d have to kill 70% of all existing hogs each year in order to keep it from getting worse.
Hugging your pets lowers stress levels and elevates levels of serotonin and dopamine that help you feel calmer and more relaxed.
Bees have three tiny additional eyes on the top of their heads called ocelli, which collect and focus light to help them navigate.
Honey bees visit around 2 million flowers and fly more than 55,000 miles to make just 1 pound of honey.
Polar bears often hunt walruses by causing panic and targeting those injured in the chaos, as direct attacks are too risky due to the walruses’ size and sharp tusks.
There are two species of African spiders named after “The Dude” from The Big Lebowski. They are called “Anelosimus biglebowski” and “Anelosimus dude.”
The kookaburra is native to Australia and New Guinea; its calls are often used as sound effects in movies for jungles in Africa or South America.
Instead of roaring, Tyrannosaurus rexes likely produced booming sounds via closed-mouth vocalization, with deep frequencies that could carry over miles.
One of the oldest animals on Earth is the ctenophore, also known as a comb jelly, with the oldest fossils dating back approximately 525 million years.
There is a species of horse fly with a golden abdomen named “Scaptia beyonceae” in honor of Beyoncé.
When roosters crow, soft tissues in their heads close off their ear canals, acting as natural earplugs.
The bumblebee bat, native to Myanmar and Thailand, is the world’s smallest mammal, weighing about as much as two paper clips and measuring about the length of a human fingertip.
As a defense mechanism, hagfish excrete a slime that expands by 10,000 times in a fraction of a second, and is 100,000 times softer than Jell-O.
At the start of the 20th century, “chicken spectacles” were popularly used in the U.S. to prevent chickens from feather pecking or eating each other by restricting their vision.
