Thursday, February 20, 2014

Top 10 Smallest Animals In The World - Part [2/2]

Slender Blind Snakes The Slender Blind Snakes or Thread Snakes (Leptotyphlopidae) are a family of snakes thought to be the world’s smallest snakes at about 11cm in length. They are found in North and South America, Africa, and Asia. There are 87 different species of these snakes. They are adapted to burrowing, feeding on ants and termites. Their diet consists mostly of termites or ants, their larvae and pupae. Most species suck out the contents...

Top 10 Smallest Animals In The World - Part [1/2]

Animal comes in all sizes and shapes. Some are very small, exactly very smaller than you think...      Some invertebrates not even visible to the human eye: some mites are known to measure only 200μm (0.0002mm) in length, a parasitic wasp can be as small as 139μm (0.0001mm) long, and there’s a tiny beetle which is less than 1 mm long. Given the minute size of these animals, who knows what we have yet to discover.    ...

Top 10 Biggest Animals In The World - Part [2/2]

Ostrich The Ostrich is the largest living bird having a height of 2.7 m and a weight of 156 kg. Chinese Giant Salamander The Chinese giant salamander is the largest living amphibian having a weight of 64 kg and 1.83 m length. Whale Shark The Whale shark is the largest living fish having a length of 13.6 m and weighing in at 22,000 kg. Colossal Squid The Colossal Squid is the largest invertebrate which attains the maximum size of 14m...

Top 10 Biggest Animals In The World - Part [1/2]

Animals take many shapes and forms and come in a great diversity of sizes. Some may think the biggest animal is the heaviest, others the longest, or the tallest. Whichever way you measure size there’s no denying that some animals are absolutely huge. Here is a selection of the biggest animals on earth. (These animals are not in order of big size. According to  the natural, animals are born with different size, this content just show about...

Top 10 Strongest Animals In The World - Part [2/2]

Gorilla A gorilla can lift something 2,000kg (as heavy as 30 humans), over 10 times their body weight. African Elephant In brute strength, elephants are the strongest mammals and the strongest land animals. African elephants can weigh up to 6,350kg and they can carry up to 9,000kg, the weight of 130 adult humans. Leafcutter Ant Tiny leafcutter ants can lift and carry in their jaws something 50 times their own body weight of about 500mg....

Top 10 Strongest Animals In The World - Part [1/2]

Many animals possess strength that even the strongest humans could only dream about. Different animals have different kinds of strength. Some have pure brute strength and are capable of lifting, dragging, carrying or pulling enormous weights. Others may be much smaller yet have immense power compared to their size. Here are 10 of the world’s strongest animals. Prepare to be amazed... Eagle An eagle is the strongest bird, able to lift something...

Top 10 Fastest Animals In The World - Part [2/2]

Marlin Marlin can swim at 80km/h, followed by Wahoo at 78km/h and Tunny at 74km/h. Cheetah The cheetah is designed for running down fast prey and can reach a top speed of 113km/h, three times faster than the top running speed for a human which is about 36km/h. Pronghorn Antelope The Pronghorn antelope is the second fasted land animal and at 98km/h can out-sprint predators. Blue Wildebeest  The Blue Wildebeest, Springbok...