Animals

Tuesday, 13 October 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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Crested gecko
It is an omnivore, unlike most of gecko species.
It feeds on fruit, pollen, nectar and various insects.
Alpaca
Alpacas are bred for their wool, which is the primary raw material obtained.
Alpacas are shorn once a year, yielding 3 to 5 kilograms of fiber.
Tasmanian devil
Sometimes adult devils eat younger representatives of their species.
Usually, acts of cannibalism occur when food is scarce. Probably for this reason, juveniles have evolved the ability to climb trees and shrubs, which they lose with age.
Black-headed python
Typical adult individual measures from 1,5 to 2 meters in length. Females are slightly larger than males.
The largest specimens may reach 3,5 meters total body length. Adults weigh about 16 kilograms on ave ...
Hummingbirds
Hummingbirds have very short legs, which do not fulfill their usual role - because hummingbirds cannot walk.
Quokkas
Female quokkas developed a rather drastic survival instinct.
During an escape from a predator, a female quokka can drop joey carried in her pouch, so it attracts the predator with squeaking noises while she escapes.
Crustacean
Their body can consist of two or three parts (tagm) and in some cases, it is simply impossible to distinguish the individual parts.
Some crustaceans have a head torso and abdomen, but there are some in which it is impossible to distinguish these elements. In this case, the structure of their body is divided into head and body.
Asian elephant
It is significantly smaller than its cousin from Africa, the African elephant.
The Asian elephant has smaller, more round ears and one finger, instead of two, on the upper lip of its trunk.
Ball python
They are mostly nocturnal.
They spend the majority of their days in holes and burrows.
Octopus
The world's smallest octopus is Octopus wolfi. Representatives of this species reach about 2.5 cm in length and weigh 1 gram.