It is illegal in many countries to perform surgical procedures on an octopus without anesthesia, due to its intelligence.
The hagfish has no jaws, no bones in its body, and is able to tie itself into a knot.
In August of 2016, the first documented case of twin dogs was born via C-section at Rant en Dal Animal Hospital in Mogale City, South Africa.
To stay cool in hot temperatures, kangaroos lick their arms until their fur and skin are sopping wet. The wind hitting their arms causes the saliva to evaporate and cool them off.
There’s an animal native to East Asia called the raccoon dog. It looks like a raccoon but is actually a dog.
Sh2-188: The Shrimp Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Pawel Piechnik
Explanation: What causes the swirl in the Shrimp Nebula? Its high speed is likely. What is sure is that Sh2-188 is one of the larger planetary nebulas on the night sky, by angular size, spanning about half the diameter of the Moon. Moreover, the white-dwarf core — leftover from the Sun-like star that shed its outer atmosphere — is moving unusually fast through interstellar space, creating a bow shock most visible on the upper left that is similar to a boat plowing through water. Although faint, the Shrimp Nebula glows also by compressing and brightening gas on its leading edge. The featured image was taken in the light of hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen by a backyard telescope in Krakow, Poland and then digitally adjusted to approximate the nebula‘s true colors.
The microscopic tardigrade, also known as the water bear or moss piglet, is one of the world’s toughest creatures. It can go a decade without water and can withstand temperatures as low as -459 degrees Fahrenheit as well as highs of 304 degrees Fahrenheit.
Cows, sheep and goats all have a tough dental pad for their top row instead of front teeth. This dental arrangement helps ruminants gather great quantities of grass and fibrous plants.
Bees in Ribeauville, France started producing honey in different shades of blue and green. When the beekeepers investigated, they found that instead of collecting nectar from flowers, the bees were feeding on remnants of colored M&M candy shells that were being processed by a plant 2.5 miles away.
Jellyfish are the ocean’s most efficient swimmers. They consume forty-eight percent less oxygen than any other swimming animal.
