The Difference Between Insects And Spiders ?

Despite the visual similarities between the two both are actually members of distinct families. Spiders are members of the Arachnid family whilst insects belong to the Insect family. So what makes the two families different ? Well for starters spiders have 8 legs whilst insects have just 6. Insects have 3 distinct body parts, a head, thorax and abdomen whilst spiders have just 2, a combined head and thorax known as the cephalothorax and an abdomen. As well as the above, other interesting differences include the eyes. Spiders have simple eyes whilst insects have compound eyes. Spiders have piercing jaws whilst insects have jaws which are more suitable for chewing. All spiders can make silk thread (although not all spiders spin webs) whilst most insects cannot. Spiders cant fly where as many insects have wings allowing them to do so. So yes to the untrained eye there is indeed very little visual difference but if you look really hard then theyre actually worlds apart.

Funny Science Facts

Rabbits and parrots can see behind themselves without even moving their heads! Butterflies taste food by standing on top of it! Their taste receptors are in their feet unlike humans who have most on their tongue. Most of the dust in your home is actually dead skin! Yuck! Although the Stegosaurus dinosaur was over 9 metres long, its brain was only the size of a walnut. Humans get a little taller in space because there is no gravity pulling down on them. Because of the unusual shape of their legs, kangaroos and emus struggle to walk backwards. A hippopotamus may seem huge but it can still run faster than a man. Even if an analog clock is broken, at least it shows the correct time twice a day. The trickiest tongue twister in the English language is apparently "Sixth sick sheiks sixth sheeps sick". Give it a try and see for yourself.

Animal Quick Facts 1. Humpback whales create the loudest sound of any living creature. 2. A giant squids eyes have a diameter of 15 inches which are the largest of any animal. 3. 3 out of 10 Dalmation dogs suffer from hearing loss due to inbreeding. 4. The African Elephant has a gestation period of 22 months while a short-nosed bandicoot gestates for 12 days. 5. The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mambo snake is over 95%. 6. A dogs sense of smell is 1,000 times stronger than humans. 7. Hummingbirds consume half of their weight in food daily. 8. A cockroach can survive for about a week without its head before dying of starvation.

9. The whale shark has over 4,000 teeth. Each tooth is only 3mm long. 10. Polar Bears are capable of jumping as high as 6 feet and can run as fast as 25mph. 11. The crosshairs of gun sights were made of spider web filaments until the 1960 s. 12. Mosquitos are attracted most to the color blue. 13. The heart of a shrimp is located in its head. 14. Some frogs are able to be frozen and then thawed, and continue living. 15. A goldfish is the only animal that can see infrared and ultraviolet light. 16. A snail can sleep for 3 years. 17. There are 701 types of pure breed dogs. 18. The fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift, can fly as fast as 106mph. 19. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. 20. A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length. 21. In 1872, a virus epidemic killed a quarter of all the horses in the United States.

Weather Quick Facts

1. The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph. 2. During a hurricane, 90% of the people who die end up dying from drowning. 3. The coldest temperature ever recorded was a negative 126.9 degrees fahrenheit in Vostok Station, Antarctica. 4. Between evaporation and falling as precipitation, a droplet of water may travel thousands of miles. 5. The typical lifetime of a small cumulus cloud is between 10 to 15 minutes. 6. A corn field of one acre gives of 4,000 gallons off water per day in evaporation. 7. A molecule of water will stay in Earths atmosphere for an average duration of 10-12 days. 8. Snowflakes falling at 2-4 mph can take about 1 hr to reach the ground. 9. For each minute of the day, 1 billion tons of rain falls on the Earth.