AMAZING FACTS

110 years ago, one man set out to rid Texas of Malaria - with the help of what was then a very unlikely source......

Poison dart frogs store Batrachotoxin, a steroidal alkaloid toxin in their skin glands. A single amino acid substitution is responsible for the resistance to their on poison in these frogs.

These predatory ants must have fed on soft bodied animals. When they encounter their prey, their clypeal hairs touch its body. This triggers the sudden closure of mandibles in upward direction. Pointed mandibles now pierce the prey’s body. Using the channels in mandibles, these ants can suck haemolymph (blood) out of the body of prey.

Video features a banded sea krait swallowing a big whole moray eel as big as it is. This video is taken by a diving instructor...

Take a close look at this, absolutely amazing! This deer was shot with an arrow years ago. Lucky, the shot was not fatal, the...

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Giant beaver or Castoroides is an extinct genus of enormous beavers that lived in North America during the Pleistocene. Giant beavers were much larger than...

Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by a living organisms. Bioluminescence occurs widely in marine vertebrates and invertebrates, as well as in some...

  Chaunax pictus, commonly called as pink frogmouth is a sea toad of the family Chaunacidae. It is found around the world on continental shelves...