Plants
The tallest living tree, this species is found along the pacific coast of the US.
What is the coast redwood (aka sequoia)?
This animal from down under can sleep for up 22 hours a day.
What is a koala?
Ancient Egyptians used pillows made of this unusual material.
What is stone?
This nearby space neighbor is drifting away from Earth at a speed of about 1.2 inches a year.
What is the Moon?
This sea animal is technically all head, no body.
What is a starfish? (or sea urchin or sand dollar)
This plant can grow up to 35 inches daily, making it the fastest growing "woody plant" in the world.
What is bamboo?
This underground nude animal can live in an almost zero oxygen atmosphere and can survive for up to 20 minutes without ANY oxygen.
What is a naked mole rat?
In the 16th century, many wealthy Europeans believed that consuming this could cure many diseases.
What are human mummies?
This popular two legged, meat-eating dinosaur likely had feathers, based on the feathers found on ancestral fossils of the species in China.
What is the T. rex?
This common hobby material can withstand compression better than concrete, although scaling it up to make buildings with would be extremely expensive.
What are legos?
Botanically, the avocado and pumpkin are both considered this, but rhubarb is not.
What is "fruit"?
Despite being extremely small, this animal is both the deadliest animal in the world AND outnumbers almost all other types of animals.
What is a mosquito?
This fluffy "prehistoric" mammal was still living around the same time as the building of both the pyramids of Giza and Stonehenge (which were built around the same time).
What are wooly mammoths?
These two volcanoes are 4.2km taller than Mt Everest, if you measure from their actual base.
What are Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa?
This weather phenomenon is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
What is a lightning bolt?
In the 1600s, this plant was worth more than gold in Holland.
What are tulip bulbs?
This group of birds is highly intelligent, loves gifts, and has the same understanding of physics as a 6 month old human baby.
Originally a maker of Hanafuda playing cards, this current day video game maker was founded in 1889.
What is Nintendo?
This common yard power tool was originally invented for "helping" in childbirth.
What are (much smaller) chainsaws?
This common - SFW - human behavior arose before language.
What is laughter?
This plant is frequently found in highway dividers and in landscaping, even though every part of it is highly toxic to humans and most animals.
What is the oleander?
This very very very small critter can survive in space and go without eating for more than 10 years.
What is a tardigrade (water bear)?
This still popular condiment was originally sold in 1834 as "medicine" that could cure diarrhea, indigestion, and jaundice. It was even sold in pill form at one point.
This underwater mammal has been documented wearing other animals as "hats". No one (yet) knows why.
What is an orca?
If you were eaten by a snake, only this would survive.
What are hair and nails? (keratin)