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A cockroach can
TRUE or
FALSE?
live for three days
without its head
Surviving the extinction of the dinosaurs,
these hardcore critters take toughness to
the next level. They can live without air for
45 minutes and without their heads for at
least three days. Be afraid—be very afraid!
BUTTERFLY BRAIN
Antennae, or
feelers, provide
the cockroaches’
sense of smell.
Developments in CT scanning have allowed The oldest fossil from a roachlike insect
scientists to study caterpillars during their dates back to 315 million years ago. These
metamorphosis into butterflies. They found superstrong miracles of nature can go for at least
that adult butterflies remembered things a month without food or water. They breed like
that happened to them while they were wildfire and strike fear in people’s hearts in the event
caterpillars. In a series of tests, butterflies of a home infestation. But very few species of
reacted to bad smells in the same way they cockroaches live in cities. Most dwell in forests
did as caterpillars, proving they and caves a long way from civilization.
remembered them.
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