While reliable information on this question is fairly hard to come by, there have been a few reliably substantiated cases of dogs living for almost 30 years. The oldest dog that has been somewhat reliably documented was an Australian cattle-dog named Bluey. He is reported to have lived from June 7, 1910 to November 14, [...]
While the American grizzly bear is fearsome and cool to look at, the polar bear is generally considered the largest bear in the world. Its average weight is between 900 and 1500 pounds. The brown bear, averaging 500 to 900 pounds a close second. The biggest polar bear ever recorded was a male shot in [...]
There has been some debate on this, depending on how you define an animal’s size. The Bumblebee Bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai) is definitely the world’s smallest species of bat. It is about 30mm in length and weighs about 2 grams (less than an American penny). It is the only known species in its genus and is [...]
The largest spider in the world is a tarantula called the Goliath Birdeater. An adult can weigh over four ounces (about the size of a large mouse) and has a leg span of up to 12 inches. The spider was given its unique name by Victorian explorers who witnessed one eating a hummingbird although birds [...]
This is a very generic question, but one that actually gets asked quite frequently. Of course, the short answer is that snakes have a varied diet, depending on factors such as their species, size, age, geographic locale, etc. A fairly accurate answer for what most snakes eat might be: insects, worms, lizards, birds, small amphibians [...]
The shortest known gestation period is 12 to 13 days. This record is shared by three marsupials, which is kind of an unfair comparison to all other mammals as in marsupials, the young are born immature and have to continue developing in a pouch on the mother. The three mammals with this very quick gestation [...]
While this question is often debated, the land snake commonly believed to have the most lethal poison in the world is the inland taipan. They primarily live in the arid deserts of central eastern Australia. Anything or anyone unlucky enough to be bitten by a taipan is injected with some nasty venom Inland taipans are [...]