- ... that the woodlouse Hemilepistus reaumuri can only survive in the desert (pictured) because it looks after its young?
- ... that the Reverend Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing, who became a strong supporter of Darwinism, was ordained by Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, one of its greatest opponents?
- ... that Chirocephalus diaphanus is the only species of fairy shrimp to occur in Great Britain?
- ... that the slipper lobster Scyllarus pygmaeus is too small for fishing?