Elephants have the longest known pregnancy of any animal, lasting up to 680 days. They are born with an advanced level of brain development.
Frogs can’t swallow with their eyes open.
Sea scallops have about sixty eyes. They can be a bright blue color and help the scallop detect light, dark and motion.
Some baby whales are actually born with hair. Most species born with hair usually lose it over the first several weeks after birth.
Koalas have human-like fingerprints; in fact, they are almost identical to human ones. Not even careful analysis under a microscope easily distinguishes the loopy, whorled ridges on koala’s fingers from our own.
Spiders cannot digest solid food. Before they can eat their prey, they must turn their meal into a liquid form. They exude digestive enzymes from their stomach onto the victim’s body. Once the enzymes break down the tissues of the prey, they suck up the liquid remains.
Male platypuses have venomous spurs, and can even sense electromagnetic fields just like a fish.
The horned lizard has blood-filled sinuses within its eye sockets that squirt blood in self-defense by swelling and rupturing.
At birth, baby kangaroos, or joeys, can be as small as a grain of rice or as big as a bee.
Horses can sleep while standing up. This is because of the way that their legs are built. They have ligaments and a structure that allows them to doze off without collapsing.
