Animals

Tuesday, 16 December 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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Sperm whale
The sperm whale’s brain is the largest in the world, five times the size of a human brain.
It is the largest known brain of any modern or extinct animal, weighs on average about 7-8 kilograms, and has a volume of about 8000 cubic centimeters.
Shoebill
Shoebills build a nest in the form of a flat mound. It is usually located on floating vegetation or grass on dry land, in a place inaccessible to predators.
The female lays 1 to 2 eggs and the incubation time lasts about 30 days. After hatching, the parents ...
Stingrays
They show no hostility towards humans and attack only when provoked.
Most attacks are caused by humans accidentally stepping on them and are not lethal. There have been ...
Black-headed python
They are rather docile and do not often bite.
When threatened, black-headed pythons may hiss and strike an opponent with their head. They rarely b ...
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 ...
Aye-aye
Aye-aye was classified as a lemur in the mid-1800s but later reclassified in its own group by itself.
Kiwi bird
Because of the high death rate, the kiwi population is managed.
In unmanaged populations, their numbers decline by roughly 2% a year, mostly because of the small survival rate of kiwi chicks in the wild.
Arctic fox
Although being omnivorous, they feed mainly on small animals.
Their menu consists of lemmings, voles, and other rodents, as well as fish, birds, hares, and eggs. ...
True seals
The oldest fossil specimens of seal representatives are from the early Miocene.
These animals appeared about 22 million years ago. Other fossil specimens dated 15 million years ago and inhabited the North Atlantic.
Tigers
Their roar is audible from over three kilometers away.
Truth be told, the range of the roar is much greater because tigers can make infrasound at an even lower frequency than that heard by humans.