9. Never Left the Party
The coelacanth is a prehistoric fish that was thought to have gone extinct 65 million years ago but was rediscovered in 1938. It is believed that they represent an early step in the evolution of fish to four-legged animals.
8. Fat Head
A coelacanth’s brain occupies only 1.5% of its cranial cavity. The rest is filled with fat.
7. Beware the Early Bird
A snowy owl will eat up to 1,600 lemmings a year. That’s three to five every day. Between “eaten by owl” and “jumping off a cliff” lemmings don’t seem to have a lot of great life options.
6. Ballers
When anacondas mate, competing males can gather around a female in a writhing mass called a breeding ball. The ball can last up to four weeks and during that time the female can breed with several of the males.
5. Bee Story
When a queen bee dies, the workers will create a new queen by feeding her royal jelly.
4. Better Living through Chemistry
Queen bees can regulate the activity of a hive by releasing chemicals into the air to modify the behavior of the other bees. Chemicals. Hit songs. Potato, potahto.
3. Calamari for Dinner
The biggest giant squid on record was 59 feet long, weighed nearly a ton, and had eyes the size of beach balls.
2. Sail Away
Sailfish are the fastest fish in the ocean and can leap out of the ocean at speeds up to 68 miles per hour.
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1. That’s One Horny Fish (Not a Fish)
The narwhal has two teeth, one of which can grow into a nearly nine-foot tusk in males, earning them the name the “unicorn of the sea.” Of course, had we seen them first, we would have named them tunacorns.
