Friday 21 November 2014

Fact Hunters: Palaces, insects and spiders

Lilly Reynolds
Samuel Pepys managed to live through two massive disasters: the Great Plague and the Great Fire!

Jack Peppitt
Without a doubt, crocodiles are built to last. Evolving around 200 million years in the Mesozoic epoch, crocodiles have far outlived the dinosaurs!

Jude Gore
The name Taj Mahal means "crown of palaces". It is a white marble mausoleum located in India, that was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal

Ellie Jo Stapleton
Did you know that cicadas are the only insects capable of producing such unique and loud sounds? Some larger species can produce a call in excess of 120 decibels at close range!

Mitchell Stapleton
Flies taste, smell, and feel with the hairs that cover their bodies. The hairs on the fly's mouth parts and feet are used for tasting. Flies taste what they walk on. If they walk onto something tasty, they put down their mouth and taste it again.. urggghhhh!

Brett Groom
Your tongue is fastened to the jaw bone (mandible) and to the front of your throat. The part of your throat that you can see when you look past the tonsils is called the pharynx.

Danny Groom
The false widow spider is thought to have first come to the UK over 100 years ago in crates of fruit from the Canary Islands. 










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