Animals

Friday, 4 September 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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Glass frogs
Glass frogs are active during night.
Those nocturnal amphibians start to seek food as soon as it gets dark and are active during whole night. Mating also occurs at night.
Hawksbill sea turtle
The pattern on their carapace is called tortoiseshell.
It is amber, with an irregular black and dark-brown pattern. It is unique because of its overlapping scutes—five central, and four lateral.
American robin
Males are more colorful than females.
Juveniles can also be duller regardless of sex.
Common kingfisher
They feed mainly on fish, which they catch by diving vertically into a river or other body of water.
They also eat aquatic insects, frogs, and crayfish. They catch their prey by flying low over the water, at a speed of up to 190 km/h.
Hyacinth macaw
The legs of this parrot are gray.
There are four toes on each leg - two pointing forward (third and second) and two pointing backward ...
Basking shark
Despite their enormous size, basking sharks are not a threat to humans.
They allow divers to approach them at close range. However, humans do pose a threat to basking shark ...
Blue tang
Eating a royal blue tang will result in ciguatera fish poisoning.
Every species of reef fish carries ciguatoxin and maitotoxin from the consumption of small organisms. One in 1,000 cases of poisoning will end up in death.
Leeches
Pliny the Elder wrote that leeches suck blood and are helpful for "rheumatic pains and all kinds of ailments and fevers."
In June 2004, the US Food and Drug Administration approved leeches for medical use, recognizing them as a therapeutic agent.
Housefly
Fly larvae are called maggots.
They are white, legless organisms that feed on organic material at their hatching site. After hatchi ...
Tawny frogmouth
Their breeding season starts in August and lasts till December.
Both male and female participate in building nest.