Animals

Its fur consists of short, soft down and long, gray, broad hairs up to 10 cm long that cover almost ...

The mouth opening is located on the underside of the body between the legs. They move the food into the mouth with chelicerae—a pair of small appendages.

It also lives in northern Africa and western Asia.

They are divided into five genera: erinaceus, paraechinus, mesechi nus, atelerix, and hemiechinus.

They capture harmful metabolites from the hemolymph and direct them to the cloaca, from where they escape through the anus.

Although their fossils are a rarity, since they do not have bones, the oldest shell-like fossils date back to Neoproterozoic Era (1000—550 mya).

It fights and wins against a T-Rex in a spectacular fight. In reality, those creatures couldn't meet because they lived in different times, about 20 million years apart.