A quarter of the world's plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.

The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.

90% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning.

The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees celsius.

Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.

When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.

The short-nosed Bandicoot has a gestation period of only 12 days.

One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea.