The oldest known example of a spider’s web with insects entrapped has been dated to the Early Cretaceous period of 110 million years ago; it was discovered in San Just, Spain and reported in June 2006. The sample contains a parasitic wasp (now extinct), a beetle, a mite, and a fly trapped within 26 strands of sticky silk, and is preserved in ancient tree sap (amber).
Little Snowflake was a unique male albino western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) who lived at Barcelona Zoo from 1966 until his death from age-related ill health on 24 November 2003. Unlike full albinos, Little Snowflake had blue eyes, suggesting that he was a chinchilla albino, caused by a recessive mutant gene form called chinchilla (also responsible for white tigers).
Visitors to the GWR LIVE! roadshow became instant record-breakers when they built the tallest coffee cup tower in three minutes, measuring 2.08 m (6 ft 9.89 in), at the GWR LIVE! event at the World Trade Centre, Barcelona, Spain, on 14 May 2010. The record-breaking attempt was achieved by Emma Beckman, Alisa Buckley, Anton Kirkpatrick, John Morton, Philippa Denman, Rosie Laurence, Kreena Patel, Oliver Foot (all UK) and Charlotte Cody (France).
The youngest goalscorer in the top division of Spanish football (soccer) is Iker Muniain, who scored when he was 16 years and 289 days old, playing for Athletic Club against Real Valladolid, at the Nuevo Estadio Jose Zorrilla, in Valladolid, Spain, on 4 October 2009. The match ended 2-2 and Muniain scored the final goal of the game, securing a draw for his side at Real Valladolid’s stadium.
The most people keeping beach balls in the air is 14,993 and was achieved by Coordinadora de Peñas de Valladolid, in Valladolid, Spain, on 2 September 2012. Every year, vast numbers of Valladolid’s citizens gather to earn themselves a Guinness World Records mass-participation certificate. In recent years, we’ve seen the locals stage a giant water-pistol fight (2,671 people in 2007), lick a lot of lollipops (12,831 in 2008), dress en masse as Cupids (199 in 2009), twirl flags (35,000 in 2010) and fan themselves (15,000
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The loudest crack of the finger knuckles measured 83.2 dB and was achieved by Miguel Ángel Molano (Spain) in Getxo (Guecho), Bizkaia (Bilbao), Spain, on 25 May 2012.
The fastest time to shoot 10 arrows is 1 min 7 sec and was achieved by Luis Caídas Martín (Spain) on the set of Guinness World Records – El Show de los records in Madrid, Spain on 4 June 2006.
5.96 Irina Privalova (Russia) Madrid, Spain 9 February 1995
6.92 Irina Privalova (Russia) Madrid, Spain 11 February 1993 and 9 February 1995 Privalova has set the same time at the same location twice, hence the two dates
6.39 Maurice Greene (USA) Madrid, Spain 3 February 1998 and Atlanta, Georgia, USA 3 March 2001