Watch your back, Superman: The mantis shrimp is as fast as a speeding bullet.
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1. The Hercules beetle can carry up to 850 times its weight, which is like a human lifting eight fully grown elephants (or about 65 tons).
2. Millipedes of the genus Motyxia glow in the dark and ooze cyanide — the perfect defense against enemies.
3. Wood frogs can survive being frozen in solid ice.
4. The Pompeii worm lives in deep-sea hydrothermal vents at temperatures of 176˚F (80˚C). It assembles a coating of minions – symbiotic microbes that apparently feed on mucus secreted by the worm – that might help insulate it from the heat.
5. Fireflies' nervous systems control their glowing, and each species has its own pattern — kind of like a subtle Bat-Signal.
6. Elephant seals can hold their breath for up to two hours, making them excellent water spies.
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7. Komodo dragons will eat almost any kind of meat, including smaller dragons, large water buffalo, and humans.
8. Goats like eating poison ivy and other invasive plants, if you need any obstructive paths cleared.
9. Black swallowers are deep-sea fish with collapsable teeth and an expandable stomach, letting then gulp down prey ten times their weight.
10. African lungfishes can survive for years without food or water by tunneling into mud and secreting a mucus cocoon.
11. Mantis shrimp can punch their prey at the speed of a .22 caliber bullet (or about 50 times faster than you blink).
12. Narwhals' tusks are actually teeth, and each tooth can contain up to 10 million nerve endings.
13. Some spiders can grow bigger in urban areas.
