Animals

Saturday, 24 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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Dik-dik
Dik-diks can tolerate air temperatures up to 40° C.
Probably to prevent overheating, they have elongated mouths with bellows-like muscles through which ...
American flamingo
They are short-distance migratory birds.
Their journeys are driven mainly by searching for additional food sources or disturbing their current habitat.
Great grey shrike
Great grey shrikes are light-gray, with black stripes under the eye, on the wings and the tail, and a white underbelly.
Octopus
Some octopuses use the phenomenon of bioluminescence to attract their prey. To do this, they use organs called photophores, which are located inside the suction cups.
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 ...
Ladybugs
Adult ladybirds can exhibit cannibalism.
They can eat eggs and larvae when food is scarce.
Ball python
Female coils around the eggs for the whole incubation period.
It is unusual behavior for snakes.
Wombat
Wombats usually live in one burrow for their entire lives. Many wombats can live in the same burrow together.
It is caused by throwing out wombats from their burrow by animals or farmers or when a burrow is des ...
Great grey shrike
It can be sighted in most European countries, northwestern and northeastern parts of Africa, and eastern Asia.
Insects
The most numerous insects are beetles.
More than 400,000 species of these insects have been described so far, making up about 40% of all in ...