Animals

Sunday, 22 February 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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Narwhal
Narwhal is able to eat about 30 kilograms of food daily.
Spotted hyena
The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) is a species of predatory mammal that is also called the laughing hyena.
It belongs to the hyena family (Hyaenidae) and the hyena subfamily (Hyaeninae) and is the largest of ...
Hedgehogs
Hedgehogs have particularly well-developed hearing, smell, and taste.
When they eat or smell something foul, they immediately spit white foam of saliva on their spikes.
American flamingo
Because flamingos feed on food from salt water, they often drink seawater.
Their organisms have many mechanisms to help regulate osmosis—for example, salt glands on their beaks secreting brine, which is then removed through the nostrils.
Wombat
The wombats include two contemporaneous genera.
Vombatus, whose only representative is the common wombat; Lasiorhinus, containing two species: northern hairy-nosed wombat, also called yaminon, and southern hairy-nosed wombat.
Blue-Tongued Lizard
Those animals live solitary life.
Most of the year those lizards spend alone, only in last quarter of year they bind in pairs. They are polygamous so one male can be a parent for many clutches.
Moose
Moose are herbivorous animals.
They forage and can eat many types of plants and fruits. The average adult needs to consume 9,770 kc ...
Fleas
Their average lifespan varies on the conditions of the environment.
Typically, an adult flea lives for two to three months. Given proper food supply, however, they can ...
Amur leopard
It is one of the subspecies of leopards.
There are eight subspecies of leopards in total: African, Indian, Javan, Arabian, Amur, Indochinese, Sri Lankan, and Panthera pardus tulliana (native to Turkey and the Iranian Plateau).
Horseshoe crab
They live in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of North and Central America and near the Asian coasts in the Pacific.