. Turtles have no teeth. 2. Prehistoric turtles may have weighed as much as 5,000 pounds. 3.

Only one out of a thousand baby sea turtles survives after hatching. . !ea turtles absorb a lot of salt from the sea water in which they live. They e"crete e"cess salt from their eyes, so it often loo#s as though they$re crying. 5. %elium is a colorless, odorless, tasteless inert gas at room temperature and ma#es up about 0.0005& of the air we breathe. '. %elium (alloon )as ma#es balloons float. %elium is lighter than air and *ust as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things will rise to the top. +. ,amels can spit. -. .n ostrich can run 3 miles per hour /+0 #ilometers per hour0. 1. Pigs are the fourth most intelligent animal in the world. 20. 3inosaurs didn$t eat grass4 There was no grass in the days of the dinosaurs. 22. 3olphins can swim 3+ miles per hour /'0 #ilometers per hour0. 22. . crocodile$s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth4 5t cannot move. 5t cannot chew but its 3igestive *uices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail, )lass pieces, etc. 23. !har#s are immune to disease i.e. they do not suffer from any 3isease. 2 . .nimals are either right6 or left6handed4 Polar bears are always left6handed, and so is 7ermit the 8rog. 25. Paris, 8rance has more dogs than people. 2'. 9ew :ealand is home to +0 million sheep and only 0 million people. 2+. ;ale polar bears weigh 2 00 pounds and females only weight 550 pounds, on average. 2-. (ison are e"cellent swimmers4 Their head, hump and tail never go below the surface of the water. 21. There are ' to 2 frog<s species in the world that have no tongues. One of these is the .frican dwarf frog. 20. . frog named !ant*ie, who was in a frog derby in !outh .frica *umped 33 feet 5.5 inches. 22. The longest life span of a frog was 0 years 22. The eyes of a frog flatten down when it swallows its prey 23. The name =5ndia= is derived from the >iver 5ndus

2 . The Persian invaders converted it into %indu. The name =%industan= combines !indhu and %indu and thus refers to the land of the %indus. 25. The =place value system= and the =decimal system= were developed in 200 (, in 5ndia. 2'. The game of sna#es ? ladders was created by the 23th century poet saint )yandev. 5t was originally called =;o#shapat=. The ladders in the game represented virtues and the sna#es indicated vices. 2+. 5ndia has the most post offices in the world 2-. =9avigation= is derived from the !ans#rit word 9.@).T5% 21. The word navy is also derived from the !ans#rit word =9ou=. 30. Antil 2-1', 5ndia was the only source for diamonds to the world 32. . snail can sleep for 3 years. 32. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start. 33. Twenty68our67arat )old is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. .bsolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands. 3 . Blectricity doesn$t move through a wire but through a field around the wire. 35. The first bicycle that was made in 2-2+ by (aron von 3rais didn$t have any pedals4 People wal#ed it along. 3'. The first steam powered train was invented by >obert !tephenson. 5t was called the >oc#et. 3+. . cheetah does not roar li#e a lion 6 it purrs li#e a cat /meow0. 3-. The original name for the butterfly was Cflutterby= 31. .nts don$t sleep. 0. 3olphins usually live up to about twenty years, but have been #nown to live for about forty. 2. 3olphins sleep in a semi6alert state by resting one side of their brain at a time. 2. . dolphin can hold its breath for 5 to - minutes at a time. 3. (ats can detect warmth of an animal from about 2' cm away using its =nose6leaf=. . (ats can also find food up to 2- ft. away and get information about the type of insect using their sense of echolocation. 5. The eyes of the chameleon can move independently can see in two different directions at the same time. '. ,oc#roach ,an detect movement as small as 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom. +. 3ragonfly Bye contains 30,000 lenses.

-. Pig$s Tongue contains 25,000 taste buds. 8or comparison, the human tongue has 1,000 taste buds. 1. The number system was invented by 5ndia. .ryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit Dero. 50. 5ntelligent people have more Dinc and copper in their hair. 52. Barth weighs 5,1+2,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. 52. Ei#e fingerprints, everyone$s tongue print is different. 53. . duc#$s Fuac# doesn$t echo anywhere 5 . ;an is the only animal who$ll eat with an enemy 55. The average woman uses about her height in lipstic# every five years. 5'. The first ,hristmas was celebrated on 3ecember 25, .3 33' in >ome. 5+. . ,oc#roach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. 5-. . chimpanDee can learn to recogniDe itself in a mirror, but mon#eys can$t. 51. . rat can last longer without water than a camel can. '0. .bout 20& of the world$s population is left6handed. '2. 3olphins sleep with one eye open. '2. !na#es have no e"ternal ears. Therefore, they do not hear the music of a =sna#e charmer=. 5nstead, they are probably responding to the movements of the sna#e charmer and the flute. %owever, sound waves may travel through bones in their heads to the middle ear. '3. ;any spiders have eight eyes. ' . The tongue of sna#es has no taste buds. 5nstead, the tongue is used to bring smells and tastes into the mouth. !mells and tastes are then detected in two pits, called =Gacobson$s organs=, on the roof of their mouths. >eceptors in the pits then transmit smell and taste information to the brain. ' . (irds don$t sweat. '5. The highest #angaroo leap recorded is 20 ft and the longest is 2 ft. ''. 8lamingo tongues were eaten common at >oman feasts. '+. The smallest bird in the world is the %ummingbird. 5t weighs 2oD . '-. The bird that can fly the fastest is called a Hhite it can fly up to 15 miles per hour. '1. The oldest living thing on earth is 22,000 years old. 5t is the flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the ;o*ave 3esert.

+0. Tea is said to have been discovered in 2+3+ (, by a ,hinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water. +2. . person can live without food for about a month, but only about a wee# without water. 5f the amount of water in your body is reduced by *ust 2&, you$ll feel thirsty. 5f it$s reduced by 20&, you$ll die. +2. .long with its length nec#, the giraffe has a very long tongue 66 more than a foot and a half long. . giraffe can clean its ears with its 226inch tongue. +3. Ostriches can #ic# with tremendous force, but only forward. 3on$t ;ess with them. + . .n elephant can smell water three miles away. +5. 5f you were to remove your s#in, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds. +'. . hippopotamus can run faster than a man ++. 5ndia never invaded any country in her last 20000 years of history. +-. The world$s #nown tallest man is >obert Pershing Hadlow. The giraffe is 5. 1m /2- ft.0, the man is 2.55m /-ft. 22.2 in.0. +1. The world$s tallest woman is !andy .llen. !he is 2.35m /+ ft. + in.0. -0. The only 2 animals that can see behind themselves without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot. -2. The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and its tongue is as long as an elephant. -2. The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from ' to - inches long. (ecause of their siDe and the thic#ness of their shells, they ta#e 0 minutes to hard6boil. The average adult male ostrich, the world$s largest living bird, weighs up to 3 5 pounds. -3. Bvery dolphin has its own signature whistle to distinguish it from other dolphins, much li#e a human fingerprint. - . The world$s largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons i.e. 50000 7g at birth. 8ully grown, it weighs as much as 250 tons i.e. 250000 7g. -5. 10 & of all the ice in the world in on .ntarctica. -'. .ntarctica is 3>5B!T continent. .ntarctica is a desert -+. .ntarctica is ,OE3B!T continent, averaging minus +' degrees in the winter. --. ;ercury is the closest planet to the sun and it doesn$t have a moon. 5ts atmosphere is so thin that during the day the temperature reaches +50 degrees, but at night it gets down to 6300 degrees. -1. Gupiter is the largest planet. 5f Gupiter were hollow, you could fit 2000 earths insideI 5t is made up of gas and is not solid. The most famous feature on Gupiter is its >ed !pot, which is actually an enormous

hurricane that has been raging on Gupiter for hundreds of yearsI !i"teen moons orbit Gupiter. 10. !aturn is a very windy placeI Hinds can reach up to 2,200 miles per hour. !aturn is also made of gas. 5f you could find an ocean large enough, it would float. This planet is famous for its beautiful rings, and has at least 2- moons. 12. Aranus is the third largest planet, and is also made of gas. 5t$s tilted on its side and spins north6 south rather than east6west. Aranus has 25 moons. 12. 9eptune ta#es 2'5 Barth years to get around the sun. 5t appears blue because it is made of methane gas. 9eptune also has a big !pot li#e Gupiter. Hinds on 9eptune get up to 2,200 mile per hourI 9eptune has - moons. 13. Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun... usually. 5t has such an unusual orbit that it is occasionally closer to the sun than 9eptune. Pluto is made of roc# and ice. 1 . Gust about everyone listens to the radioI 11& of homes in the Anited !tates have a least one radio. ;ost families have several radios. 15. !ound is sent from the radio station through the air to your radio by means of electromagnetic waves. 9ews, music, 3ivine teaching, baseball games, plays, advertisements6 these sounds are all converted into electromagnetic waves /radio waves0 before they reach your radio and your ears. 1'. .t the radio station, the announcer spea#s into a microphone. The microphone changes the sound of his voice into an electrical signal. This signal is wea# and can$t travel very far, so it$s sent to a transmitter. The transmitter mi"es the signal with some strong radio signals called carrier waves. These waves are then sent out through a special antenna at the speed of lightI They reach the antenna of your radio. Jour antenna =catches= the signal, and the radio$s amplifier strengthens the signal and sends it to the spea#ers. The spea#ers vibrate, and your ears pic# up the vibrations and your brain translates them into the voice of the radio announcer bac# at the station. Hhen you consider all the places the announcer$s voice travels. 1+. Bvery radio station has its own freFuency. Hhen you turn the tuning #nob on your radio, you are choosing which freFuency you want your antenna to =catch.= 1-. ;ountain lions are #nown by more than 200 names, including panther, catamount, cougar, painter and puma. 5ts scientific name is 8elis concolor, which means =cat of one color.= .t one time, mountain lions were very commonI 11. The large cats of the world are divided into two groups6 those that roar, li#e tigers and .frican lions, and those that purr. ;ountain lions purr, hiss, scream, and snarl, but they cannot roar. They can *ump a distance of 30 feet, and *ump as high as 25 feet. 5t would ta#e Fuite a fence to #eep a mountain lion outI Their favorite food is deer, but they$ll eat other critters as well. They hunt alone, not in pac#s li#e wolves. They snea# up on their prey *ust li#e a house cat snea#s up on a bird or toy6 one slow step at a time. . lion can eat ten pounds of meat at one timeI 200. Kueen ants can live to be 30 years old 202. 3ragonflies can flap their wings 2- times per second and they can fly up to '0 miles per hour . 202. .s fast as dragonflies can flap their wings, bees are even faster... they can flap their wings 35 times per second

203. %uman thigh bones are stronger than concrete. 20 . >ight handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left6handed people 205. The elephant is the only mammal that can$t *umpI 20'. 8ingernails grow nearly times faster than toenailsI

20+. Homen blin# nearly twice as much as men 20-. %oney is the only food that does not spoil. %oney found in the tombs of Bgyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible. 201. ,oca6,ola would be green if colouring weren$t added to it. 220. ;ore people are allergic to cow$s mil# than any other food. 222. ,amels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. 222. Barth is the only planet not named after a god. 223. 5t<s against the law to burp, or sneeDe in a church in 9ebras#a, A!.. 22 . !ome worms will eat themselves if they can$t find any food. 225. 5t is impossible to sneeDe with your eyes open. 22'. !lugs have noses.

22+. Owls are the only birds that can see the blue colour. 22-. Jour tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end. 221. Penguins are not found in the 9orth Pole. 220. . whip ma#es a crac#ing sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound. 222. .le"ander )raham (ell$s wife and mother were both deaf. 222. ,oc#roaches brea# wind every 25 minutes. 223. 8ish scales are an ingredient in most lipstic#s 22 . 2.+ liters of saliva is produced each day. 225. The world<s oldest piece of chewing gum is 1000 years oldI 22'. The largest beetle in the .mericas is the %ercules beetle, which can be That$s bigger than your handI 22+. . full6grown male mountain lion may be 1 feet long, including his tailI to ' inches in length.

22-. The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in Bnglish with *ust one pencil. 221. The Hright (rothers invented one of the first airplanes. 5t was called the 7itty %aw#. 230. ;ars is nic#named the =>ed Planet,= because it loo#s reddish in the night s#y. ;ars has 2 moons. 232. @enus is nic#named the =Gewel of the !#y.= (ecause of the greenhouse effect, it is hotter than ;ercury, even though it$s not as close to the sun. @enus does not have a moon but it does have clouds of sulfuric acid. 232. Tens of thousands of participants come from all over the world, fight in a harmless battle where more than one hundred metric tons of over6ripe tomatoes are thrown in the streets.

2.The worldCs tallest living tree to date is the ;endocino Tree /!eFuoia sempervirens0, which is 3'+ feet and ' inches tall /222.02 meters0, located at the ;ontgomery Hoods !tate >eserve, in ,alifornia, A.!... 5t has a diameter of 20.3 feet, or 3.231 meters. 2.The first Helwitschia plant was discovered by .ustrian botanist 8riedrich Helwitsch in 2-'0 in the 9amib desert in the southern part of .ngola. 3.One molecule of sucrose is actually one molecule of glucose and one molecule of fructose bonded together /covalently lin#ed0. !o one glucose and one fructose combined ma#es one sucrose. .The poinsettia flower is named after a 21th6century ambassador, Goel >oberts Poinsett, who first brought the poinsettia plant to .merica. 5.There is a fish that can climb trees, called the muds#ipper. 5t spends about 3L th of its time out of water. ;alaysian muds#ippers live in swamps where they climb among tangled stem roots, and sometimes into branches. '.The worldCs oldest living plant is estimated to be the Tasmanian #ingCs holly, Eoamtia tasmanica, a member of the Proteaceae family, which has survived for about 3,'00 years. +.. single corn plant has been estimated to transpire about 5 gallons /2 5 liters0 of water in one growing season. -.The family ;arantaceae /.rrowroot 8amily0 was named after (artolomeo ;aranta, an 5talian botanist. 1.5n the poison ivy plant, an oil called urushiol, found in the leaves, vines, and even the roots of the plant, causes the poison ivy rash. /.s little as one nanogram of urushiol Mbillionth of a gramN, causes the rash0. 20.8rogs can *ump up to 20 times their body length. The longest *ump on record is 33 feet 5.5 inch. 22.3olphins can empty and refill their lungs in less than 0.2 seconds /one fifth of a second0.

22.The family Pontederiaceae /Hater %yacinth 8amily0 was named after )iulio Pontedera. 23.There are two types of poison ivyO a climbing plant /to"icodendron radicans0 and a shrub /to"icodendron rydbergii0. 3onCt bother trying to tell them apart since they loo# similar and often grow in the same place. 2 .The sacred lotus 9elumbo nucifera heats up when it is ready for pollination. 8or up to four days it maintains steamy temperatures of -'615 degrees 8ahrenheit /30635 degrees ,elsius0 to attract insects and encourage them to move from one flower to another. 25.The country believe to have the most amount of plant species is (raDil, around or over 5',000. 2'.The ,ompositae /.steraceae0 have more species than any other family of flowering plants with over 20,000 species recogniDed, mostly in the tropics. 2+..nother word for fructose is laevulose. 2-.Hhen at 200 degrees ,elsius, sucrose will melt into caramel. 21.One molecule of glucose with one molecule of galactose ma#es one molecule of lactose. 20.The first enDyme to be discovered was diastase /amylase0, discovered by 8rench chemist .nselme Payen. 22.8ood storage in seeds occurs either in the cotyledon or the endosperm. 22.Eysosomes contain enDymes for brea#ing down macromolecules /lysoDymes0. 23.The animal #ingdom is the largest #ingdoms in terms of number of species. 2 .The main function of water in photophosphorylation is to provide electrons which are energiDed by light energy. 25.;embers of the phylum ,nidaria, whichs contains hydroDoans, *ellyfish, and sea anemones, have radial symmetry. 2'.9ematodes donCt have a true coelom, but a psudocoelom. 2+.)lucagon is a hormone secreted by the pancreas that stimulates the liver to brea# down glycogen into glucose /glycogen hydrolysis0 and to release glucose into the blood. 2-.The "ylem contains many cells including fibers called schlerenchyma. 21.5n most cells, the cytoplasm is divided into two partsO the ectoplasm /plasmagel0, and the endoplasm /plasmasol0. 30.. newly discovered frog species is so tiny that it can sit comfortably on the human fingernail. The frog, Psyllophryne didactyla, was discovered in ,uba in 211'. 32.. handful of soil contains up to 5,000 different species of bacteria. 32.Barthworms produce nitrous o"ide as a by6product from digesting soil nitrates and nitrites. !oil with earthworms contains five times as much nitrous o"ide as soil without.

33.The slowest6growing tree is a white cedar /Thu*a occidentalis0 located in ,anada. .fter 255 years, it grew to a height of inches /20.2 centimeters0, and weighed only 0.' ounces /2+ grams0. 3 .Psilocybin /,22%2+92O P0, a hallucinogenic crystalline solid, are obtained from the mushroom Psilocybe me"icana. 35.)lycolysis is a subdivision of cellular respiration in which glucose molecules are bro#en down to form pyruvic acid molecules. 3'.The amino acid tryptophan was discovered by !ir 8rederic# )owland %op#ins in 2102. 3+.The amino acid histine was discovered by .lbrecht 7ossel. 3-.The most powerful health6promoting compounds in blueberries are anthocyanins, and have been proven to improve brain power, especially with rats. 31.The monera #ingdom is the smallest #ingdom in terms fo number of species. 0.The ;iocene ape /Proconsul africanus0 was discovered by 7enyan anthropologist Eouis Eea#ey in 21 -, a possible ancestor of both mon#eys and apes. 2.!cottish botanist >obert (rown discovered the nucleus in plant cells, in 2-32. 2.The first te"tboo# on botany was written by A.!. botanist .sa )ray =Blements of (otany= in 2-3'. 3..ll mushrooms are classified under the phylum (asidiomycota /#ingdom 8ungi0. .There are around '5,000 different species of protists. 5..ll protists are eu#aryotes. '.There are ,+'5 different species of frogs. +.The species with the most #nown pair of chromosomes is the Ophioglossum reticulatum, a species of fern, with more than '30 pairs /2,2'0 total0. -..n old, still healthy, mature oa# tree is estimated to have appro"imately 250,000 leaves /one fourth of a million0. 1.The birds appeared on the Barth a little more than '0 million years ago. 50.The rate at which glycolysis occurs in a cell is stimulated by the concentration of adenosine diphosphate /.3P0. /The control of the rate of glycolysis depends upon the activity of the allosteric enDyme, phosphofructo#inase. The enDyme is activated by adenosine diphosphate and inhibited by adenosine triphosphate /.TP00. 52.,arotenoids that do not contain o"ygen are called carotenes and are deep orange in color. ,arotenoids that do contain o"ygen are called "anthophylls, and are yellow in color. 52.Phytochromes are the pigments in plants that allows the plant to discern whether or not itCs at day or night /more specifically light or dar#0.

53.8erredo"in is an iron containing protein that functions in capturing energy rich electrons from e"cited chlorophyll molecules. 5 .The three different #inds of #idneys found in vertebrates are the pronephros, mesonephros, and metanephros. 55.. 2 6leafed red clover /the clover with the most leaves #nown to date0 /Trifolium pratense0 was reported by Paul %aiDlip, located in (ellevue, Hashington, A.!..., on Gune 22,21-+. There is also a 2 6leafed white clover /Trifolium repens0, found by >andy 8arland near !iou" 8alls, !outh 3a#ota, A.!..., on Gune 2', 21+5. 5'.The highest chlorophyll content found in a plant is in the 7irin ,hlorella ;620+.+ /,hlorella vulgaris0, a type of algae. 5t has been measured on a dry weight basis to be '.+&. This percentage rate was discovered by 3r. 7ouichi 9a#anishi of 7irin (rewery ,ompany Etd., Gapan. 5+.The worldCs heaviest cabbage was grown by (ernard Eavery of Elanharry, >hondda ,ynon Taff, Hales, in 21-1. 5t weighed 22 pounds /5'.2 #ilograms0. 5-.There are two types of cells, pro#aryotes and eu#aryotes. Pro#aryotes are more simpler than eu#aryotes, but they both posses a plasma membrane and cytoplasm. 51.The worldCs oldest vine, the Old @ine, in ;aribor, !lovenia, is around 00 years old. . scientific measurement of the vine carried out in 21+2 established that it was between 350 and 00 years old. 9ow it is rougly 3-0 to -0 years old, and produces about 200 bottles of wine, or 35 to 55 #ilograms of grapes, yearly. '0.The worldCs tallest sunflower, grown in 21-' by ;artien %ei*ms in Oirschot, The 9etherlands, grew to be 25 foot 5 inches /+.+' meters0. '2.The four stomachs of a cow are the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum. '2.The nec# of a giraffe has + vertebras. '3.There are around less than 20,000 different species of monera. ' .There are around 500,000 different species of plants. '5.There are around 200,000 different species of fungi. ''.There are around less than +15,000 different species of animals. '+.The producer of penicillin is Penicillium, an organism in the class .scomycetes of the phylum Bumocyta, of the 8ungi #ingdom. '-.The Dylem of a plant conducts water and transports minerals upwards from the roots. '1.The phloem transports sugars and other nutrients from the leaves to the other parts of the plant. +0.The plant hormone abscisic acid /,25%20O 0 inhibits the growth of leaves and germinating seeds. +2.>ed blood cells are the only cells in the human body that do not have a nucelus. +2.The first animal to be successfully cloned was a frog, done by (ritish molecular biologist Gohn (.

)urdon in 2133. +3.The first mammal to be successfully cloned was an ewe named 3olly, born in Guly of 211', led by 5an Hilmut. + .5f the deo"yribonucleic acid in a single human cell were stretched out and laid end to end, it would measure appro"imately '.5 feet /2 meters0. +5.The amino acid asparagine was discovered by 8rench chemist 9icolas6Eouis @auFuelin in 2-0'. +'.The bacteria Bpulopiscium fishelsoni, which lives in the gut of surgeonfish, was first identified in 21-5 and mista#enly classified as a protoDoan, but was measured to be overly huge, at 0.025 inches /0.3millimeters0 in diameter. ++.The study of fungi is called mycology. +-.The upper shell /bac#0 of a turtle is the dorsal carapace. The lower shell /front0 of a turtle is the ventral plastron. +1.The cell walls of archaebacteria lac# peptidoglycans. -0.>ed algae contain red accessory pigments called phycobilins. -2.The largest group of living seedless vascular plants are the ferns, at about 22,000 different species, in which around 2L3rd are tropical. -2.The first plant patent was issued to %enry 8. (osenberg, a landscape gardener, who received A.!. Plant Patent 2 on .ugust 2-, 2132 for a climbing or trailing rose. -3.The earliest vertebrate, .natolepsis, was a *awless fish from ,hina that lived at least 500 million years ago. - .The earliest bird, .rchaeoptery", was a pigeon siDed bird with a long tail, toothed bea#, and real feathers, that appeared about 2'0 million years ago. -5.;ycoplasma genitalium has the smallest number of genes of any organism yet #nown on Barth. !eFuenced in 2115, it has -0 genes. -'.Two molecules of glucose bonded together ma#es one molecule of maltose. -+.The four nitrogen bases in deo"yribonucleic acid nuleotides are adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine. --.>ibosomes assemble amino acids into proteins in the cytoplasm. -1.The source of electrons used in ma#ing a molecule of glucose is photolysis, which splits %2O to provide the electrons for photophosphorylation, which are incorporated in nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate hydrogen. 10.The worldCs oldest #nown tree is a bristlecone pine named ;ethuselah, located in ,alifornoaCs Hhite ;ountains at *ust over ,+'0 years old. 12.The first trees that lived were the scale trees, that grew during the 3evonian period.

12.The smallest flowering plant in the world belong to the genus Holffia of the 3uc#weed family, at between .3 to .5 millimeters in diameter. 13.!har#s have to #eep swimming in order to survive. The great white shar# must swim constantly at 2.2 miles per hour /3.5 #ilometers per hour0 to ensure o"ygen reaches its bloodstream. 1 .The sensors on the feet of a red admiral butterfly are 200 times more sensitive to sugar than the human tongue. 15.,ommon frogs can live for about si" years but only 2 in 20,000 will successfully evade predators and disease to live to '. 1'.The deep6sea fish ;alecosteus niger has chlorophyll in the retina of its eye. This is the only #nown instance of chlorophyll being found in an organism that is not a plant or bacteria. 1+.The tallest tree ever measured was an .ustralian eucalyptus /Bucalyptus regnans0, reported in 2-+2 at 35 feet /232 meters0 high. 1-.The worldCs smallest winged insect is smaller than the eye of a house fly. 5t is the TanDanian parasitic wasp, which has a wingspan of 0.00- inch /0.2 millimeter0. 11.The bar# tree of the cor# tree /Kuercus suber, a type of oa# tree0 is made up of many uniFue cells. Bach cell has 2 sides, and, in a cubic centimeter of cor# tree bar#, there are about 0 million of them. ,or# cells are separated from each other by a layer of air. .ll the air in this intercellular space is what ma#es cor# float.