Floating seeds has helped the coconut to spread to lots of far reaching places. To facilitate this they have also become slow-germinating to avoid the new palm to sprout in the middle of the ocean. Since coconut palms are super-useful for humans, providing materials for…

I just think this is really cool. I’m a big fan of black, and I can think of so many awesome uses for this, if only it was possible for me to get insane amounts of it. But that’s never gonna happen, so I’m just…

Whenever I post something exclusive, I always think “aaw, man, I really wanna show this fact to everyone, buuuh”, but then I remember that you guys are the best people who support my work and you totally deserve something exclusive, and then I’m happy again…

I don’t know why I have not posted about these crazy creatures before, they are super duper FancyFacts material, cute and strange 🙂 Read more: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/facts/platypus (last accessed 15.04.2021)

This is a common mistake. One I keep making myself, even though I know the difference. For example, when I first made the post about the venomous snail, I called it poisonous and almost posted it with the wrong word.  I suppose I could make…

Read more about this weirdo in this article from ScienceNews, written by Susan Milius: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sea-slug-detached-head-crawl-regenerate-grow-new-body (last accessed on 15.03.2021). This process takes some time, so it is suggested that this is not a mechanism to escape predators, like some lizards do, but rather to escape…

I had a lot of fun with this one. I started partly because this is a fact I keep throwing at people anyway, and also partly because I have been playing a lot of Odyssey lately =P It is fun to get to do some…

I remembered I asked my high school biology teacher about this, and I thought is was really cool. People have been swimming past these things and just thought “hey, what a neat flower”: But no, they are not flowers, they are stingy ocean jelly buns!…

Reygaert (2018) is my goto-article for antibiotic resistance mechanisms: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6604941/

You can read more about arctic foxes here: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/a/arctic-fox/ If you want to learn more about their burrows this article goes into more depth: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/05/160520-arctic-foxes-animals-science-alaska/