Animals

Tuesday, 20 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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Ball python
Ball pythons reach a maximum length of 182 centimeters, and an average weight of 2,2 kg.
Insects
Insects breathe using tracheae, to which air is supplied through spiracles.
Tracheae are protrusions of the insects' body walls that branch into a system of tubes inside the body. At the ends of these tubes are liquid-filled tracheae through which gas exchange occurs.
Spiders
All legs grow from the cephalothorax. Spiders have five pairs of them.
It is a pair of pedipalps and four pairs of walking legs.
Brazilian wandering spiders
Their distinctive features are their heavily hairy noggin and massive long body.
When meeting, their behavior can also help in identification. When threatened, they raise their front legs high, straighten their body, and begin to sway from side to side.
Common Surinam toad
Only eggs laid on the back of the female can develop. Those that have fallen to the bottom of the water body die.
In the first few days of development, some of the eggs that have been shallowly buried in the female’s skin are also pushed out by eggs deeper in the skin.
Salamanders
Reproduction and eggs
While salamanders lay their eggs without shells and deposit them in a moist environment, lizards typ ...
Asian elephant
Asian elephants have one more toenail on each foot than their African cousins.
Hawksbill sea turtle
They fell prey to sharks, large fish, octopuses, and crocodiles.
Coyote
It is found almost everywhere in North America, from Mexico to Alaska.
It prefers open, shrubby areas or small wooded areas.
Common kingfisher
It is widely distributed in Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
It occurs in southern and central Europe, northern Africa, and southern Asia in a belt from the Decc ...