Humans have puzzled over Biology - the study of all the living things that inhabit our world - for hundreds of thousands of years. In what ways are we the same as other animals and in what ways are we different? How did the species that we see on Earth today come into being? In the last 200 years, scientists have studied these and other questions that help us to understand how lief works.
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- All animals are descended from a single species
- All mammals live for about one billion heartbeats
- Spider silk is stronger than steel
- An ant can lift 50 times its own body weight
- An adult sea squirt eats its own brain
- Crabs have their skeletons on the outside
- Sharks have to keep swimming in order to stay alive
- Monarch butterflies migrate over several generations
- A flying eagle can see its prey from over 5 km away
- Peacock can predict the rain
- Most species on Earth disappeared at the same time as the dinosaurs
- Animals can adapt to live at over 100 °C and below 0 °C