The synthetic biological cell "Synthia" is the first living organism whose parent is not a living thing but a computer.
Humans share 60% of DNA with a banana. Submitted by: Grant - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
The femur (thigh bone) is the largest and longest bone in the human body
There's about 1.8m (6 ft) long DNA inside every cell nucleus in our body, and an average adult body contains around 50 trillion (million million) cells.
The catfish father keeps the eggs in his mouth until they are ready to be hatched.
The length between your elbow and hand (forearm) equals the length of your foot.
Corneas are the only tissues that don't require blood.
Dolphins only "sleep" half awake - keeping one eye open while consciously breathing and floating on surface.
To avoid predators, a mother Slow Loris licks its offspring with poison before sending them off to search for food.
The fungus Cordyceps is able to "mind-control" other insects like ants to climb plants and attach there to become its food.
The jaw is the strongest muscle in the human body in terms of exerting force.
An adult Mayfly's life is as short as a few minutes, but its body hatches for about a year.
The nails on long fingers grow faster than short fingers; and fingernails grow four times faster than toenails.
Some migratory birds have a "magnetic compass" in their body (a sense called Magnetoreception) to help them navigate using Earth's magnetic field.
The tiny Water Bear (Tardigrade) can survive environments extreme enough to kill any other animal - with temperatures as low as -273°C close to Absolute Zero to as high as 151°C.
The Giant Kelp algea (Macrocystis pyrifera) is the fastest growing organism on earth and can grow at a rate of 70cm (two feet) a day.
If you fully stretch your arms out, the fingertip to fingertip length is almost exactly your body height.
The lightest organ in the human body is the lung.
A kind of jellyfish (Turritopsis nutricula) upon reaching adulthood can transform itself back to childhood by converting its cells. It may repeat this to live forever.
The biggest egg in the world is the ostrich egg. It could take as many as 30 chicken eggs to equal its volume, and up to 2 hours to hard boil.