Why should we appreciate our nervous system? Read these 11 fun facts and you’ll know why: 1. The body has billions of nerve cells Every person’s body contains billions of nerve cells (neurons).

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division Ahead of Inauguration Day on January 20th, learn five interesting inaugural trivia from The Smithsonian Book of Presidential Trivia. 1.

A new species of Funnel Web Spider named Atrax christenseni and nicknamed ‘Big Boy’ is pictured at the Australian Museum in Sydney (Picture: Reuters) A new type of spider, nicknamed the ‘big ...

A larger and more venomous species of one of the world's deadliest spiders has been confirmed by Australian scientists. Nicknamed 'big boy', it can grow up to 9cm (3.54 inches) compared with 5cm ...

Have fun creating ghost and pumpkin faces with different features. On the black bottle caps, you can use white paint or marker to create eyes for the bat and spider. You can also use pink or red ...

The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake’s preliminary magnitude at 6.8. The Japan Meteorological Agency said it had an intensity of lower 5 on the Japanese scale of 0 to 7. The quake began at ...

NOAA Fisheries, an office within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has shared a new video of a tiny baby crab covered in spikes and sitting in the palm of a scientist's hand.

In recent months, the Spider-Man 4 rumours have gone from being fun and exciting to verging on exhausting. Villain after villain has been rumoured to appear in the movie and, as things stand ...

Here are 10 fun and interesting facts about Tiquicia that you won’t find on every other list, proving this country isn’t like the rest. 1. Costa Rica is Not an Island First and foremost, Costa Rica is ...

For two years in a row, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game canceled the snow crab season in the Bering Sea after biologists discovered an estimated 10 billion crabs had mysteriously ...

While Japan does have its fair share of scary insects like the Japanese hornet ... The pantropical huntsman spider is sometimes called a banana spider since it likes to hitchhike in banana leaves.