• 1. 7,000 new insect species are discovered every year.
• 2. A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
• 3. A baby octopus is about the size of a flea at birth.
• 4. A bird 'chews' with its stomach.
• 5. A blue whale's aorta (the main blood vessel) is large enough for a human to crawl through.
• 6. A blue whale's heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle!
• 7. A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
• 8. A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long!
• 9. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
• 10. A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment.

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