A Mantis Shrimp can punch with the force of a 22-caliber bullet.
It’s so fast that the punch can’t be seen with the human eye. It can break through glass and is… more
If you drop silly putty from a great height, it’ll shatter instead of bounce.
Some YouTube experimenters showed exactly what that means, dropping 50 pounds of Silly Putty from the top of a parking… more
Aphids give birth to other pregnant aphids.
“Most aphids are born pregnant and beget females without wastrel males,” the US National Library of Medicine says. “Embryos complete development… more
Humans genetically related to bananas
Gene sequencing reveals that we have more in common with bananas, chickens, and fruit flies than you may expect. Banana: more… more
Human children don’t get kneecap bones until they’re around three years old.
As Torech noted on Reddit, it takes a while for children to get kneecaps. That part of the skeleton is called the patella.… more
Some turkeys can spontaneously impregnate themselves through a process called Parthenogenesis.
The form of asexual reproduction — where embryos can grow without fertilization — is rare among birds. It’s also possible for… more
There’s a species of shark that can live for around 500 years.
The Greenland Shark has the longest lifespan of all known vertebrates, living an average of 272 years, and some of them… more
A chicken lived without a head for 18 months.
Mike the Headless Chicken is perhaps the most famous example. Its owner, a farmer named Lloyd Olsen, chopped his head… more
Sharks predate trees.
As Smithsonian Magazine reported, Archaeopteris, the earliest species that scientists can classify as “tree,” lived about 350 million years ago. Sharks, however, can… more