• Question: What is the most interesting biology fact you know ?

    Asked by anon-207674 to William, Silvia, Scott, Oliver, Natalie, Michelle, Lowri on 8 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Lowri Evans

      Lowri Evans answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      Sea cucumbers can turn themselves inside out when they feel threatened, and they also purge all of their internal organs as a distraction to get away from predators! Weird eh?!

    • Photo: Michelle Valkanas

      Michelle Valkanas answered on 10 Mar 2019:

      The Bobtail Squid lights up at night due to fluorescent bacteria that live within the squid!

      https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/glowingsquid.jsp

    • Photo: Scott Graham

      Scott Graham answered on 11 Mar 2019:

      i don’t know which is most interesting but ill give you 3 facts I find interesting:
      1) There is a fungus named after spongebob sqaurepants. it is called spongiforma sqaurepantsii
      2) cats pee glows under a UV light
      3) there is a bacteria that can turn water in plants to ice. it is called Pseudomonas syringae, the bacteria is apparently used in the production of artificial snow product called SNOWMAX

    • Photo: Natalie Lamb

      Natalie Lamb answered on 11 Mar 2019:

      Your fingers go wrinkly in the bath to help improve your grip underwater

    • Photo: Oliver Andrews

      Oliver Andrews answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      An octopus has three hearts :O

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