Barrel Cactus Barrel Cactus are found in the deserts of Southwestern North America. Barrel cacti of some species easily reach over 1 metre in height at maturity. Flowers appear at the top of the...

Stonefish is the family of Synanceiidae. These are venomous, dangerous and even fatal to humans. It is one of the most venomous fish currently known in the world. They are found in the coastal...

The sea walnut or warty comb jelly is a species of tentaculate ctenophore. These are found in western Atlantic coastal waters. These have oval-shaped and transparent body with four rows of ciliated combs that...

There are about 60 different species of glass squid and it’s also known as cockatoo squid, cranchiid, cranch squid or bathyscaphoid squid. They live in depths of open oceans around the world. The length...

The crocodile icefish or white-blooded fish are a family of perciform fish. It is found in the cold waters around Antarctica and southern South America. They feed on krill, copepods and other fish. Icefish...

The Glasswinged butterfly (Greta oto) is a brush-footed butterfly. Glasswinged butterfly adults also exhibit a number of interesting behaviors, such as long migrations and lekking among males. Glasswinged butterfly wings are transparent with a...

The blue whale is a marine mammal belonging to the baleen whales. The length of the blue whale is 98 ft and weight is 190 tonnes or more. It is the largest existing animal...

Tropical Islands Resort Tropical Islands Resort is a tropical theme park located in the Brandenburg, Germany. Tropical Islands was built by the Malaysian corporation Tanjong in the former airship hangar known as the Aerium....

San Alfonso Del Mar San Alfonso del Mar is a private resort in Algarrobo, Chile. The resort is recognised as having the world’s largest swimming pool. The pool is 1,013 m long, covering 20...

The armadillo girdled lizard also known as the armadillo lizard, golden armadillo lizard or armadillo spiny-tailed lizard. They lives only in the deserts of southern Africa. The armadillo girdled lizard can be a light...

The pygmy marmoset is a small New World monkey native to rainforests of the western Amazon Basin in South America. It is notable for being the smallest monkey and one of the smallest primates...

Blue Sea Slug are also known as the sea swallow, blue angel, blue glaucus, blue dragon and blue ocean slug. The Glaucus atlanticus is a small species. These sea slugs are pelagic and it...

Chinese Giant Salamander The Chinese giant salamander is the largest salamander and largest amphibian in the world. The length of salamander is 180 cm. It is mainly found in mountain streams and lakes in...

Poison Dart Frog Poison dart frog is the common name of a group of frogs in the family Dendrobatidae and these are found in Central and South America. These species have brightly colored bodies....

A salp is a barrel-shaped tunicate (a marine invertebrate animal). It moves by contracting, thus pumping water through its gelatinous body. The salp strains the pumped water through its internal feeding filters. Salps are...

Boxfishes can be found in reefs throughout the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean as well as the south eastern Atlantic Ocean. It reaches a maximum length of 49 cm. As the name suggests, it...

Jawfish are native to warmer parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, where found from the shallows to depths of a few hundred meters. Most jawfish species are small fish up to 10...

The puffer fish (also known as the blowfish, balloonfish, bubblefish and the toadfish) is a medium-sized species. The puffer fish is most well known for it’s unique and distinctive adaptations that the puffer fish...

Fangtooths are beryciform fish of the family Anoplogastridae. The fish live in the deep sea. Fangtooths are actually quite small and harmless to humans. There are two species: Common Fangtooth and Shortthorn Fangtooth. Common...

Chandra Bahadur Dangi Chandra Bahadur Dangi born 30 November 1939 and he is the shortest man in the world as per the Guinness World Record book with the height of 0.546 m. He broke...