survival, n.Trivia

Great white sharks can go up to three months between meals

Blue whales are able to go up to 6 months without eating

Cockroaches can live almost a month without food.

Insects are the most successful multi-cellular life form on the planet

Tarantulas are able to survive two and a half years without food

Cheetahs only need to drink water once every 3 or 4 days.

Rats can last longer without water than camels

Cockroaches can live up to several weeks without their head -- they eventually die only due to hunger.

Bedbugs can live for months without food.

The African Rock Python can live 2 years without eating

Crocodiles are one of the planet’s oldest living creatures. They've survived for over 200 million years.

Squid evolved 500 million years ago and ruled Earths oceans tens of millions of years before fish appeared.

Giraffes can last longer without water than camels

Fossils indicate the earliest penguin relative lived about 60 million years ago. Meaning they survived the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs.

Crocodiles are the ultimate survivors. Having arisen some 200 million years ago, they have outlived the dinosaurs by some 65 million years

the Titanic's baker floated three hours in the freezing water and survived thanks to being drunk on whisky before the ship started sinking

Sharks have survived four of the "big five" mass extinctions. They are older than Mount Everest, dinosaurs, and even trees