Tortoises and crocodiles are seemingly immune from biological aging – a phenomenon known as negligible senescence.

Unlike humans, who continue to age after reaching maturity – caused by a gradual accumulation of cellular damage, tortoises, can continue to reproduce at very old ages and show few signs of functional decline as they get older. Instead, they tend to die due to disease or predators.

According to some forty-million-year-old bones that were discovered in Antarctica, penguins used to be over six feet tall and weighed more than 250 pounds.

Sleeping with the door closed could help you survive a house fire.

Cumulus clouds are the fluffy ones that look like tufts of cotton candy… or dragons