Biology Facts & Trivia - Page 5

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.

The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1. Sciensational.com

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. Sciensational.com

If a person or an animal is born colorblind, they instantly have excellent night vision.

Elephants are the only land animal that can't jump. Sciensational.com

A teaspoonful of soil may contain 100 million bacteria.

Eighty-five percent of all life on Earth is Plankton. Sciensational.com

You can figure out which way is south if you are near a tree stump. The growth rings are wider on the south side.

Eighty-five percent of all the plants and animals live in the sea. Sciensational.com

Babies are born far sighted - their eyes start to focus properly between 3 to 6 months of age.

Men have more blood in their circulatory system than women and more red blood cells. Sciensational.com

Your blood vessels, if laid end to end, would encircle the globe twice over.

Some species of Bamboo can grow at the rate of 1 metres in 24 hours.

A single bacteria cell, given all the food it needs, could divide into a ball of cells the size of the Earth in 24 hours.

The DNA in a single human cell is 37 metres long when unravelled.

DNA unravels at 7000 RPM (revolutions per minute).

Every four days the worlds population increases by one million people.

If all major forms of cardiovascular disease were eliminated, human life expectance would increase by 9.78 years.

The right lung takes in more air than the left.