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The Indestructible Cockroach

Featured in Answers Magazine

Yuck! Most people would be happy to live in a world without cockroaches. But even creatures we see as pests show God’s amazing designs. He made the lowly cockroach a real survivor in a world marred by sin and death.

3 MPH: A cockroach’s running speed. That’s the equivalent of 200 miles per hour for a human being.
720 babies: The estimated average number of offspring a female American cockroach can produce in its one-year lifetime.
6.5 lbs: The weight required to crush a cockroach. That’s more than 1,600 times the cockroach’s own weight.
1 second: The time it takes human skin to die in powerful X-ray beams that have no effect on cockroaches.
30 minutes: The time cockroaches can be submerged in water and still revive.
10+ minutes: The time cockroaches can survive in a total vacuum.
1 month: The time cockroaches can live without a head (if neck opening is capped and its body kept free from mold).