Look at these amazing facts... there is surely something here that will cause you to 'wonder'

The long-necked dinosaurs are called sauropods. Their necks allowed them to eat leaves in the treetops that other dinosaurs couldn't reach.

Dodos lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until they all died out in about 1680.

The potter wasp makes tiny vases from wet clay. She lays an egg in each one and pops in a live caterpillar, sealing the vase so that the caterpillar cannot escape.

Baby reptiles have a special tooth to cut their way out of the egg. It drops off once it's done its job.

Dragonflies are the fastest flying insects.

There are over 23,000 species of bony fish!

When a beetle wants to fly it opens it armour casing and stretches out its wings.

Fish breathe by taking oxygen from the water. They take the water in through their mouths, pass it over their gills which extract the oxygen. Then the water is pushed out of the gill slits.

Rabbits have 60 babies a year.

The heart is a muscle that pumps blood around the body every minute of the day.

The cockchafer beetle always fans out its feelers before it flies. They tell it which way the wind is blowing.

Rhinos horns are made of stuck-together hair.

Not all bees like to live in hives. Many kinds of bee live alone in burrows.

A glacier is a slow river of ice. It creeps down the valley taking large rocks with it. It melts as it reaches the warmer, lower lands.

Dolphins have up to 200 sharp pointed teeth for holding on to slippery fish.

The African pancake tortoise is endangered because so many are caught and sold as pets.

Eagle owls are the largest owls in the world.

The biggest fish in the world is a whale shark. It is not dangerous as it lives on plankton.

The Hercules Emperor moth is the world's widest creepy-crawly. From wing to wing it's the size of a dinner plate.