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Over 4,000 muscles allow caterpillars to move in that very peculiar fashion – humans, by comparison, have only about 650 muscles. You also shouldn’t enter a staring contest with a caterpillar. You’ll lose. Your future wormlike overlords have twelve eyes.

Here’s looking at you, ostrich kid! Those lashes! Those eyes! Not only are the world’s biggest bird’s visual organs quite pretty to behold, but each eye is also actually bigger than the ostrich’s brain! An ostrich egg, on the other hand, has as much volume as two dozen chicken eggs.

For approximately 200 years, microscope technology remained relatively unchanged. In the 1850s, however, Carl Zeiss, a German engineer, developed improvements for the device! Joseph Jackson Lister also helped eliminate the unequal bending of light hitting the microscope lens, leading to further improvements!