Animals

Monday, 10 November 2025
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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Basking shark
Basking sharks have essentially no natural predators.
They are known to be attacked by orcas, but few predators hunt these sharks. There is some information that great white sharks feed on the carcasses of basking sharks.
Spiders
Spiders breathe using lungs or windpipes.
Lung tracheas evolved from the legs of aquatic arachnids. Tracheae, in turn, are bulges in the body ...
Saola
In Vietnamese, Saola means “spindle horns.”
Tawny frogmouth
They build big nests.
Nests are usually located in forked tree branches and reach up to 30 cm (11.8 in) in diameter. They are built with twigs, grass and leaves. Structure is not very durable and can disintegrate easily.
European pine marten
They are fed on milk for the first three months of life.
Females have only four nipples capable of producing food. As martens grow, they begin to consume meat, but not earlier than five weeks after birth.
Sloth
The Bradypodidae, also called three-toed sloths, are a monotypic family of terrestrial, arboreal mammals.
The only genus belonging to this family is the sloth (Bradypus), with the following species: sloth dwarf sloth three-toed sloth fringe sloth
Common kingfisher
They are not songbirds.
They use a few sharp sounds depending on the situation: the call for flight is a short, sharp whistl ...
Blue tang
It is one of the most popular marine aquarium fish.
They have very sensitive skin, however, and are prone to diseases.
Ocean sunfish
They are being mistaken for sharks.
Because ocean sunfish often swim near the water's surface, their dorsal fin protrudes above the wate ...
Bird of Paradise
Carl Linnaeus in 1760 named the largest of the birds of paradise Paradisea apoda, meaning "legless bird of paradise."
At the time, no one in Europe had ever seen this marvelous bird alive. Linnaeus possessed only skins ...