Incredible Facts
Select topics from the contents below to find out some fascinating and incredible facts about them!
- Animal senses
- Are you Paying Attention?
- Computer Science Unplugged
- Captain Cook's First New Zealand Voyage
- Captain Cook's Second New Zealand Voyage
- Crystals
- Glassblowers
- Incredible Vision
- Incredibly Boney Bones
- Life on the Rocky Shore is Hard!
- Light Metals Transporting the World
- Life on Mars
- Why did the Moa grow so large?
- What is Colour Blindness?
- Slime
- Sport and Exercise
- The Internet
- Antarctica
Incredibly Boney Bones
Did you know?
- There are 206 bones in the human body
- The largest bone is the femur or thigh bone
- The smallest is called the stapes and is found in the inner ear (it is about the size of a grain of rice)
- The skull is made up of a number of bones fused together
- Bones are living tissue, and have their own blood supply
- Long bones are involved in the production of red blood cells which occurs in the marrow