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Originally Posted by red_phoenix

centipede

edit: can't get the picture to show

If you click on the "Centipede.jpg" under the picture, it will show in a new window with the below URL. Then you can use the [IMG] tags. But that one shows up very large.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../Centipede.jpg

I usually just take a screen snip of the large ones, save it to desktop, attach it to my post, and then just delete it from my desktop.


faster than a human being
The Peregrine Falcon

From here

Spoiler:

The Peregrine Falcon reaches faster speeds than any other animal on the planet when performing the stoop,[7] which involves soaring to a great height and then diving steeply at speeds of over 320 km/h (200 mph), hitting one wing of its prey so as not to harm itself on impact.[6] The air pressure from a 200 mph (320 km/h) dive could possibly damage a bird's lungs, but small bony tubercles on a falcon's nostrils guide the powerful airflow away from the nostrils, enabling the bird to breathe more easily while diving by reducing the change in air pressure.[53] To protect their eyes, the falcons use their nictitating membranes (third eyelids) to spread tears and clear debris from their eyes while maintaining vision. A study testing the flight physics of an "ideal falcon" found a theoretical speed limit at 400 km/h (250 mph) for low altitude flight and 625 km/h (390 mph) for high altitude flight.[54] In 2005, Ken Franklin recorded a falcon stooping at a top speed of 389 km/h (242 mph).[9]

very high leap