Amazing Animal Facts

Komodos are dangerous predators with sharp serrated teeth. They eat almost all of a carcass, consuming flesh, skin and even bones.

Fossil hunters from Europe have discovered one of the largest predators ever to have lived: a whale that could devour other whales, with a mouth 9 ft (2.7 m) long and 7 ft (2.1 m) wide.

Attached to rocks on the sea bottom or on coral reefs, they wait for fish to get ensnared in their venom-filled tentacles.

The blobfish is facing extinction from trawler fishermen, even though it is inedible and lives at depths where it is rarely seen by humans.

Short-horned lizards are capable of inflating their bodies up to twice their size and, quite amazingly, shoot blood out of their eyes as a defense mechanism.

The sea wasp is considered the most lethal jellyfish in the world. Each one holds enough venom to kill sixty adult humans.

Over 300 manatees loll about in the warm outflow of a power plant in the Gulf of Mexico, fleeing the unseasonable cold.

As profoundly social beings, chimpanzees need relationships. Just like humans, they cry, whimper, laugh, and hoot to express their emotions and feelings.

Pucker up! While the star-nosed mole is only about the size of a hand, its 22 nose tentacles are hard to miss.

To humans, male and female butterflies may look the same, but butterflies are able to identify each other easily because of ultraviolet markings on their wings.