The kangaroo rat can cover ground at a rate of 17 feet per second It can leap as much as 18 inches straight up and can switch directions at the peak of its jump

A real diamond s reflections usually manifest in various shades of gray If you see rainbow reflections you re either dealing with a low-quality diamond or a fake

The Kiwi national bird of New Zealand can t fly lives in a hole in the ground is almost blind and lays only one egg each year Yet is has survived for 70 million years

According to research by John Innes Centre team reports in e-Life journal plants have a built-in capacity to do maths which helps them regulate food reserves at night

Cuban bee hummingbird is the smallest hummingbird only 57 mm (2¼ in) long and half of this is tail and bill It weighs less than 2 g and is the smallest warm-blooded animal

A large cumulonimbus cloud can hold enough water for 500 000 baths Most of the water droplets in a cloud re-evaporate and never reach the ground only one-fifth actually falling as rain

Amazon ants (red ants found in the western U S ) steal the larvae of other ants to keep as slaves The slave ants build homes for and feed the Amazon ants who cannot do anything but fight

The Liger is a hybrid cross between a male lion (Panthera leo) and a tigress (Panthera tigris) and is among the largest cats in the world One named Hercules weighed 900 Lbs and measured 12 feet in length

The Liger is a hybrid cross between a male lion (Panthera leo) and a tigress (Panthera tigris) and is among the largest cats in the world One named Hercules weighed 900 Lbs and measured 12 feet in length

Narilatha is the name of the flower which means a flower in the shape of women It grows in woman structured shape and it is believed to grow in the hilly side of Himalayas It flowers after every two decades

Sharks will eat anything The only exception is that they will not eat anything in the vicinity of where they give birth This is because they are so stupid this is the only way nature protects them from accidentally eating their own babies

When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens only one of the newly laid queens actually survives The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and thereafter reigns alone

When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens only one of the newly laid queens actually survives The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and thereafter reigns alone

Yale University students have discovered a fungi Pestalotiopsis microspora in Amazon which survives on a steady diet of polyurethane (Plastic) alone and that too in an anaerobic (oxygen-free) environment that is close to the condition at the bottom of a landfill

The world s tallest mountains the Himalayas are also the fastest growing Their growth - about half an inch a year - is caused by the pressure exerted by two of Earth s continental plates (the Eurasian plate and the Indo-Australian plate) pushing against one anothe