Animals

Tuesday, 4 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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Black Caiman
Males can reach up to 5.2 meters in length.
Females are slightly smaller, typically measuring 3 meters long.
American flamingo
They are wading birds that are helped in their search for food by their long legs.
They use their feet to chase down aquatic creatures, then fish them out with their beak. Flamingos o ...
Common cuckoo
Young cuckoos throw other chicks out of the nest to get enough food.
This is because a cuckoo chick is often larger than its host and could not be able to survive if other birds were fed in addition to it.
Great grey shrike
It has been listed under the least concerned by the UICN Red List.
Salamanders
Reproduction and eggs
While salamanders lay their eggs without shells and deposit them in a moist environment, lizards typ ...
Coyote
The largest coyote ever recorded was a 34-kilogram specimen.
It was a male shot near Afton, Wyoming, in 1937. It measured 1.5 meters from snout to tail.
Syrian brown bear
The Syrian bear (Ursus arctos syriacus) is a subspecies of the brown bear.
The subspecies was first described in 1828 by two German scientists: zoologist Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg and naturalist Friedrich Wilhelm Hemprich, giving it the name Ursus syriacus.
Boa constrictor
The boa constrictor is a member of the boidae family. There are eight subspecies of the boa constrictor.
Boas are a family of 49 species divided into 12 genera. The first constrictors appeared on Earth at the end of the Cretaceous period, about 70.5 million years ago.
Wolf spider
They have rather inconspicuous appearance.
To get food, wolf spiders need to hunt and chase their victims. In order to succeed they require rat ...
Bonobo
No cases of infanticide have been found in bonobos.
This phenomenon is typical of common chimpanzees, as well as other aggressive behaviors caused by the struggle for influence in the herd. In bonobos, such behaviors have not been observed.