The fastest bird in the world can reach speeds of over 200mph
The Peregrine falcon is the fastest bird in the world
The Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) can reach the amazing speed of over 325km/h (202mph) when it is in a descending flight diving towards it’s prey.
When the peregrine falcon is nearing it’s target, it spread out the wings to end the super fast stoop. This manouvre is putting an incredible force on the bird of up to 25G !
The peregrine falcon is not only the fastest bird, but also the fastest animal in the world.
Peregrine Falcon, the fast bird
The Peregrine Falcon is 34cm to 58cm long and has a wingspan of 80 to 120 cm.
Remarkable fact is that the female peregrine usually is around 30% bigger than the male!
Fastest bird in the world video
You can see the peregrine falcon at it’s amazing high speed in these video’s of the BBC and National Geographic;
Source: Wikipedia
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The oldest animal in the world was 405 years old
A clam is the oldest living animal ever discovered
The clam, which is nicknamed ‘Ming’, was 405 years old. The clam was caught off the coast of Iceland in 2007.
Remarkable fact is that Ming died during the examination by researches. So the clam could have lived even past 405 years, it is unknown how much longer Ming could have lived.
Scientists examine clams like Ming in the hope to discover helpful clues about the aging process and how some animals seem to ‘escape’ old age.
Source: Wikipedia
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The Cheetah is the fastest animal in the world
Fastest animal in the world, on land
Cheetahs are the fastest animals in the world on land. A cheetah can run up to 120km/h in a sprint!
Their speed is very important, especially because it’s preferred pray is the gazelle, another really fast animal. To catch up with a meal that is as fast as the wind, the cheetah had to develop the ability to run faster than the gazelle. The alternative would be starvation, so that’s a strong incentive of nature to make cheetah’s the fastest animals alive!
The speed of a cheetah
A cheetah can reach a speed between 112 and 120 km/h (70 and 75 mp/h) for short distances covering up to 500 meters (1600 feet) and has the ability to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in three seconds.
Although the cheetah is a fast runner, it can maintain the incredible rate for about 200 to 300 yards/274 meters. Since these high speeds can only be maintained to overcome their prey over short distances, the cheetahs still rely on stealth, sneaking, and the element of surprise to get close enough to the prey to get it down fast enough.
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Cockroaches can live without their heads for weeks
A cockroach can live for weeks without its head
It’s sounds really amazing; being able to live on for weeks once decapitated. Most often people tell that a cockroach is able to do this. And it’s true;
A cockroach can live on headless for weeks.
But it’s not so special as it seems; many other insects can do exactly the same thing!
How a cockroach survives decapitation
The problem with literally ‘loosing your head’ for a human is the fact that you will lose a lot of blood resulting in to low blood pressure, as well as the fact that we breath through our mouths, so without a head our body won’t get any oxygen.
But cockroaches don’t have blood pressure like we do, and therefor the neck will just seal off by clotting when you cut of the head of a cockroach.
What about oxygen? Well, the cockroach doesn’t breath through it’s mouth, but through so called ‘spiracles’; little holes in each body segment. What’s even more important is the fact that the cockroach brain does not control the breathing and the cockroach doesn’t need blood to transport the oxygen within the body. Instead the spiracles pie air directly to tissues through the tracheae, a ‘set of tubes’.
Since many insects resemble cockroaches in this way, this is also true for them and they can survive without a head for weeks.
Source: Scientific American
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Whales used to have large legs
Whales had large back legs and a tail. This was discovered in a fossil study. The early whale from 38 to 40 milion years ago had legs which helps to pinpoint the advent of “modern” whale flukes.
Flukes are the two wide, flat triangular lobes on the back end of the whale. These lobes are made of skin and connective tissue, with bones in the middle.
Whales evolved from semiaquatic, four-footed animals with long, thin tails.
Source: National Geographic
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