Because their eyes are fixed in their sockets, owls make up for it by swiveling their heads up to 270°. To avoid cutting off blood flow, they have 14 neck vertebrae, twice as many as you, arteries running through enlarged bony channels and blood reservoirs that keep the brain supplied. A similar twist could damage the arteries in a human neck.
In 2022, a young tagged bar-tailed godwit flew from Alaska to Tasmania in about 11 days of nonstop flight, covering 13,560 km without eating, drinking or landing. Before departure, these birds pile on huge fat reserves and shrink their digestive organs, which are useless during the journey.
To escape rivals, a dung beetle rolls its ball of dung in a straight line. At night, it holds its course using the glowing band of the Milky Way. In a planetarium, researchers showed that beetles rolled straight under a starry sky but wandered aimlessly when the galaxy was switched off. It was the first animal known to navigate this way.