Animals

Saturday, 8 August 2026
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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Insects
No insect can kill a person with its bite, but this does not mean that such a bite will not be unbearable.
The most venomous insect is the Pogonomyrmex maricopa ant, which lives in the southwestern United St ...
Vaquita
Although being part of cetaceans, they do not perform water acrobatics while surfacing.
They need to resurface to breathe, since lacking gills, but would rather emerge slowly, and dive quietly after taking a breath.
Viper dogfish
It has a slender, black body, with a blunt snout at the end of a somewhat flattened head.
Its most recognizable trait is the triangular jaw, filled with fang-like teeth.
Luna moth
Favorite host plants for luna moths are broadleaf plants.
Northern populations often utilize white birch while southern pick walnuts, hickories, sumacs, sweetgum and persimmon.
Hawksbill sea turtle
Although they are capable of holding their breath for approximately three hours, they like to resurface every 15 to 30 minutes.
Housefly
The thorax of a housefly is dark gray and covered with darker stripes.
The underside of the body is lighter than the top.
Northern pike
Most individuals lead a solitary life.
Under certain conditions, however, it is better to cooperate. Divers reported that smaller pikes som ...
Spiders
Cannibalism also occurs in newly hatched spiders.
These, in turn, eliminate the weakest siblings, thus gaining an advantage over others and giving themselves a greater chance of reaching adulthood.
Hammerhead sharks
Their length ranges from 0.9 to 6.1 meters, and their weight ranges from 3 up to 580 kilograms.
The biggest of the genus is the great hammerhead. The record holder is a female caught in 2006 who weighed almost 581 kilograms. The reason for her unusual weight, however, was pregnancy.
European mole cricket
European mole crickets build a complex system of tunnels that they inhabit throughout the year.
Such a network can reach deeper than a meter below the surface of the ground and is composed of inte ...