Animals

Tuesday, 31 March 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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Mallard
Outside the breeding season, both sexes are similar.
The plumage color is creamy brown with a lighter throat. Through the eye is an orange-colored beak with black spots. The male has a yellow beak, rust-colored breast, and black supernumerary lids.
Brittle stars
Larvae are tiny and are a part of the plankton.
Either way, the larva must undergo transformation to become an adult, bottom-dwelling individual with radial symmetry.
Clownfish
They often inhabit a symbiotical anemone which provides them with protection while clownfish feed it with feces and lure larger fish into its poisoning tentacles.
Clownfish also give protection to anemone fending off its predators and possible parasites.
Brown recluse spider
Brown recluse build irregular webs, but do not use them to capture prey.
They prefer to hunt at night, chasing their victims.
Wombat
The wombats include two contemporaneous genera.
Vombatus, whose only representative is the common wombat; Lasiorhinus, containing two species: northern hairy-nosed wombat, also called yaminon, and southern hairy-nosed wombat.
Leopard geckos
Leopard gecko is 18 – 28 cm long (18 – 20 cm females, 20 – 28 cm males).
Tawny frogmouth
They are often mistaken for owls.
Frogmouths are not owls, but due to their similarities to those birds and nocturnal activity many people wrongly assume so.
Basking shark
The pectoral fins of the basking shark are very broad.
It has two dorsal fins, the first of which, shaped like an almost regular isosceles triangle, is not ...
Basking shark
The basking shark's most distinctive feature is its five pairs of giant gill slits.
They encircle its body behind its head like a collar and almost meet at the top and bottom. 
Mallard
As early as the Neolithic period in Greece, people hunted these birds. They fell prey to hunters more often than other species due to their large numbers.
They are most often prepared by stewing or roasting, accompanied by sweet accompaniments such as apples, pears, or cranberries.