Animals

Wednesday, 5 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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European mole cricket
Males, especially during warm spring evenings, make characteristic "crunching" sounds.
This is to lure females and to increase the loudness of the sounds they make, they build a special resonating chamber underground.
Otters
Otters can smell their prey underwater.
They exhale air bubbles with captured smell and inhale them quickly again.
Manatees
Manatees have a spindly body, ranging from 2,5 to 3,9 meters in length.
Their body mass ranges from 460 to 1620 kilograms. Their front limbs are transformed into flippers w ...
Manatees
Manatees do not have many natural predators.
In addition to humans, they are threatened by sharks, crocodiles, and alligators, but this is rare b ...
Turtles
Two turtles circled the moon. This happened in September 1968 aboard the Zond 5 spacecraft.
The mission began at 21:42 UTC on September 14. The step-turtles stayed aboard the ship for 6 days, ...
Blue tang
Due to its common name, blue tang, it tends to get confused with the Atlantic blue tang.
They are, however, easily distinguishable, since the royal blue tangs have bright yellow tails.
Manatees
Manatees chew their food with strong molars.
The young manatee is born with two vestigial incisors it loses as it matures. If the molars fall out, new teeth grow in their place.
Blue-Tongued Lizard
They can be found in all habitats of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea.
One of its subspecies are also present in Indonesia.
Brittle stars
The nervous system of brittle stars has a simple structure.
As its most important elements are the nervous ring around the mouth and the radial nerves that run in the animal arms.
Adder
It comes in many color variants.
The puff adder can be dark brown, olive green, black, or gray.