Endangered and Extinct
What is the most trafficked species in the world…
What are Pangolins
What percentage of plant life is found in the ocean…
What is 85%
What are the only birds that can fly backwards…
What are Hummingbirds
The largest bug to have ever existed resembles which modern-day insect…
What is The Dragonfly
The toxicity of common pesticides came to widespread public attention following the publication of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, highlighting the toxicity of which major pesticide…
What is DDT
What is the rarest animal in the world…
What is the Vaquita or the Northern White Rhino
What was the first vegetable grown in space…
What is A Potato
What animal is able to shoot blood from its eyes as a defense mechanism up to 3 feet away…
What is The Horned Lizard
What insect is sometimes called "ant cows" because some types of ants "herd" or "tend" to them to collect and drink the insects’ excretment…
What are Aphids
Which chemical family was responsible for the Antarctic ozone hole before being phased out by the Montreal Protocol…
What are Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
What animal was the first documented human-caused extinction...
What is The Dodo
What plant does Vanilla flavoring come from…
What is an Orchid
How do duck-billed platypuses feed milk to their young…
What is They Sweat it out of Their Abdomen
What is the only insect that has only one ear…
What is The Praying Mantis
Why does unpolluted, natural rainwater have a slightly acidic pH of around 5.6 rather than a neutral pH of 7…
What is because of the absorption of atmospheric carbon dioxide into the water
After being declared extinct in 1979, a single colony of black-footed ferrets was rediscovered in 1981 in which state?...
What is Wyoming
What toxic plant was used by Medieval women to dilate their pupils as a way of appearing more attractive…
What is Deadly Nightshade
What marine animal has been recorded using toxic pufferfish to elicit a narcotic effect…
What are Dolphins
What insect has ears on its belly…
What are Grasshoppers
Because of climate change-driven environmental changes, this neurotoxin is bioaccumulating at higher rates in marine food webs…
What is Mercury / Methylmercury
What is the only animal to have been “brought back” after 3 years of the species extinction (it was a single individual that only survived a few minutes)...
What is the Pyrenean Ibex
In what country can 22% of all plant species be found…
What is Brazil
How many teeth does the average garden snail have…
What is Roughly 14,000
What insect currently holds the record for the fastest known biological movement of all animals…
What is The Dracula Ant (its mandibles can accelerate from 0 to 200mph in 15 microseconds)
PFAS compounds are known as "forever chemicals" due to their extreme environmental persistence. What specific chemical bond (the strongest single bond in organic chemistry) gives these compounds their extreme resistance to heat, water, oil, and chemical degradation…
What is their C-F bond