Animals

Thursday, 8 January 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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Common kingfisher
Independency can be very difficult and dangerous for chicks.
The first dives may end with the chick drowning. Many do not manage to learn how to catch fish befor ...
Tasmanian devil
The Tasmanian devil belongs to the marsupial family.
It includes 69 species of which the Tasmanian devil is the only representative of the genus Sarcophilus. It is the largest currently living carnivorous marsupial.
Slow worm lizard
There are many color varieties of this lizard, with the turquoise variety being the most impressive.
Tasmanian devil
Tasmanian devils can swim and swim quite well.
They can cross rivers as wide as 50 meters in this way. Observations show that such swimming gives them pleasure even when the water is very cold.
Common cuckoo
The common cuckoo is a migratory bird belonging to the cuckoo family.
There are four subspecies of the common cuckoo.
Salamanders
Juveniles
Newly hatched salamander is in a larval form that needs to metamorphose before becoming an adult for ...
Otters
Females give birth to one pup after two to three months of gestation.
Pups become fully independent after a year, until which time they stay with their family.
Quokkas
They can survive without food and water for long periods of time.
To do so, they rely on fat stored in their tails.
Spiders
Spiders breathe using lungs or windpipes.
Lung tracheas evolved from the legs of aquatic arachnids. Tracheae, in turn, are bulges in the body ...
Pterodactyls
Until the 1830s, many naturalists believed that Pterodactylus were marine amphibians that used their wings as flippers.