Animals Facts for Kids
Amazing facts about creatures big and small
Ravens can plan for future events and even delay immediate rewards in favour of better ones later — abilities once thought unique to humans and great apes.
Mudskippers are fish that can walk on land using their pectoral fins, breathe through their damp skin, and even climb mangrove roots.
Starlings form massive swirling flocks called murmurations, with millions of birds moving in perfect synchrony. Each bird responds to just seven of its closest neighbours.
Bats navigate and hunt in complete darkness by emitting ultrasonic squeaks and listening to the echoes that bounce back — a skill called echolocation.
An ocean quahog clam named Ming was found to be 507 years old — the oldest known animal in recorded history when scientists counted its growth rings.
The lion's mane jellyfish can have tentacles stretching over 36 metres — longer than a blue whale — making it the longest animal known to science.
Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards, sideways, and even upside down — they can rotate each wing independently in a figure-of-eight motion.
The pygmy seahorse is so well camouflaged on its host sea fan coral that scientists didn't know it existed until it was discovered accidentally inside a collected coral specimen.
The aye-aye, a lemur from Madagascar, taps on tree bark with its long middle finger to detect hollow spaces where grubs live, then gnaws a hole and hooks them out.
Unlike most birds, turkey vultures have an exceptional sense of smell and can detect a single dead animal from over 1.6 kilometres away.