Animals

Wednesday, 20 May 2026
19 facts about snails
19 facts about snails
Also called gastropods
Snails are mollusks and are one of the most numerous animal species in the world. In terms of species diversity, they are second only to insects. Even ...

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Viper dogfish
It gives birth to up to 26 pups per litter.
Tawny frogmouth
Tawny frogmouths are native to Australia mainland and Tasmania.
Boa constrictor
Boa constrictors are very good swimmers.
They can often be found in the vicinity of rivers and streams.
Turtles
The most important sense in turtles is vision.
Their eye has rods adapted to both low-light conditions and cones that allow them to see in the full ...
Brazilian wandering spiders
Even if the Brazilian wandering spider is brought to Central Europe and escapes into the wild, it has no chance of survival.
These spiders require high temperatures, which the European climate cannot provide for them. 
Leopard geckos
It usually takes between 30 and 90 days to hatch an egg.
Baby leopard geckos are up to 9 cm long, their weight reaching no more than 3 grams. However tiny, each youngling is completely independent.
Hammerhead sharks
Great hammerheads tend to engage in cannibalism.
As the most aggressive of the genus, great hammerheads occasionally eat their own species, even their own pups.
Brittle stars
There are species with no larval stage at all.
Amphipholis squamata, common in all parts of the British Isles is one of them.
American bullfrog
Bullfrogs can jump a distance of 2 meters.
Turtles
All turtles lay their eggs on land, although copulation occurs in different environments.
Terrestrial turtles copulate on land while marine turtles copulate in the water and only the fertili ...