11 interesting facts about Nature.
The largest animal without backbone is the giant squid.
It can reach 20m in length and can weight up to 2,000k.g...
Worker bees feed developing larvae as much as 1,300 times a day...
The most deadly of all fish venoms is found in the stonefish. It has been known to kill driver who have accidentally stepped on a stonefish...
Just 1 g of soil can contain up to 2.5billion bacteria...
The largest living lizard is the 135k.g Komodo dragon...
The electronic eel has electric radar to locate it's prey. It can emit from 450 to 600 volts to stun its prey...
In one day a single bacterium could multiply to become 28 trillion...
A bacterium may divide as often as every 6 minutes, very quickly forming a colony that is visible to the human eye...
Some fungi make new threads up to 1 km long in one day...
"Red tides'' occur when a sea is coloured by vast clouds of tiny red algae. Some contain powerful nerve poison. Some are so strong that 1g would kill 5 million mice...
Some species of cicada can take up to 17 years to reach maturity. Once an adult, they may live for only a month...
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