The short-nosed Bandicoot has a gestation period of only 12 days.

The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.

The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.

A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.

A quarter of the world's plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.

One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea.

The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.