Cockroach Facts

Scientists have actually performed brain surgery on cockroaches.

German cockroaches can survive for up to one month without food and two weeks without water.

A cockroach can change directions up to 25 times in a second.

If a cockroach breaks a leg it can grow another one.

The earliest fossil cockroach is about 280 million years old – 80 million years older than the first dinosaurs!

Cockroach can live up to nine days without its head.