Ants don't have lungs because oxygen pass through their bones in small holes of their bones.

Ants, like all insects, don’t have lungs, breathing through tiny holes in their sides – spiracles – one pair per segment. These lead into a network of tiny tubes – tracheae – permeating their entire body, getting narrower and narrower, supplying air (and hence oxygen), right to the tissues that use it, rather than using blood to transport it like us. Though they can open and close their spiracles, they have little ability to pump air in and out, which happens just through general movement. It’s this inability that stops insects getting as big as us, with our ultra-efficient lungs and blood.

The top speed of a sloth is 0.15 mph.

A group of 5 pregnant cockroaches could grow to 45 million in just one year.

A medium-sized cumulus cloud weighs about the same as 80 elephants.

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When a great white shark opens its mouth you can see right through its gills.

endo is inside for the prefix

The cornea is the only human tissue that doesn't require blood, but needs oxygen?

Bedtime? Newborn Bottle-nose dolphins do not sleep for the first month of their lives!

A 270 kg (600 lb) Octopus can squeeze through a small coin-size hole.

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The largest organ of the human body is the skin.

A mosquito has 47 teeth!?!

Mosquitoes don't have teeth.

 Live maggots of certain species of flies ( larvae of Brachyceran flies, such as houseflies, cheese flies, and blowflies ) have been applied as an effective means of wound debridement. They feed on the dead tissue .Long ago, some doctors noticed soldiers that had maggots on their wounds healed quicker than those without maggots.maggot therapy was being used in around 1,000 medical centres in Europe and over 300 medical centres in the United States.