The oldest living thing on earth is 12 000 years old It is the flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert

The largest flying animal that s ever lived was the Quetzalcoatlus It had a wingspan of 52 feet and was as tall as a giraffe

Titan Beetle is found in the jungles of South America it is second only to the Hercules beetle and can grow up to 6 5 inches

Giant Weta Cricket found only on a small island off the coast of New Zealand this cricket is large enough to devour a carrot

Hawaii s Mauna Kea is the largest mountain on Earth: although partially submerged it is 4 000 feet taller than Mount Everest

Setting suns are “redder” than a rising sun for only one reason: the day has kicked up enough dust to make it so

Niagara Falls has moved about ten miles upstream in the last 10 000 years The falls are eroding at the rate of 5 feet per yea

Niagara Falls has moved about ten miles upstream in the last 10 000 years The falls are eroding at the rate of 5 feet per yea

Caterpillars literally melt down into a sac of fluid cells which are used to create the entire body of a butterfly from scratch

A mature well-established termite colony with as many as 60 000 members will eat only about one-fifth of an ounce of wood a day

The butterfly may have gotten its name from its yellow excrement and the middle Dutch word boterschijte which meant butter-shitte

The clouds in Venus atmosphere are composed of sulphuric acid which causes the planet to reflect 65% of the sunlight that reaches it

Insects do not make noises with their voices The noise of bees mosquitos and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving wings

If all the water in the atmosphere at any one time was to fall as rain it would cover the entire Earth s surface to a depth of 1 inch

The water of Angel Falls (the world s highest) in Venezuela drops 3 212 feet (979 meters) They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls