The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.

The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.

Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation dogs to suffer from hearing disability.

Utopia ia a large, smooth lying area of Mars.

Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the people on Earth.

Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.

When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometres away in Australia.

The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.