Animals

Wednesday, 26 November 2025
27 facts about turtles
27 facts about turtles
The only vertebrates so armored
The first turtles appeared on Earth at the end of the Permian about 240 million years ago. Although the first ones had neither plastron nor carapace, ...

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Adder
There may be 5 to 15 young in a litter of the puff adder.
Mating usually begins in late April or early May and birth occurs in August or September. Freshly hatched reptiles gain complete independence.
Tasmanian devil
They are active at dusk and at night.
They go out foraging then, seeking both live prey and carrion. They often eat in groups of 2 to 5 individuals. They spend their days in bushes or burrows.
Blue-Tongued Lizard
Their bite is strong.
To crush snails shells their jaws require force which is provided by strong jaw muscles.
Axolotl
They can have organs transplanted from other individuals.
There are known cases when eyes or parts of the brain were transplanted from another axolotl, regenerating and gaining full functionality.
Tigers
Tigers venture only in the presence of a related individual.
For females, it’s a mother with a daughter.
Sloth
Sloths live in forests of Central America and northern regions of South America.
The oldest surviving traces of sloths date back to the Pleistocene. At the time, there lived the Meg ...
Slow worm lizard
They are slow eaters too.
 
It takes 10 to 15 minutes for a slow worm lizard to consume its prey.
Sloth
Sloths are the general name for two families of the Xenarthra: a three-toed Bradypodidae and a two-toed Megalonychidae.
Xenarthra is a group of placental mammals. The group, differing in form and lifestyle, includes armadillos, glyptodonts, pampatheres, anteaters, tree sloths, ground sloths, and aquatic sloths.
Portuguese man-of-war
They are translucent, but the pneumatophore has a blue, purple, or pink hue.
Ball python
They can survive without food for several months.
They regulate their metabolism during dry seasons.