Light would take 0.13 seconds to travel around the Earth.

Micro-organisms have been brought back to life after being frozen in perma-frost for three million years.

The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba snake is over 95%.

The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.

The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.

Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe.

The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (metres per second – that is equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).

At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.