Animals

Thursday, 23 April 2026
19 facts about snails
19 facts about snails
Also called gastropods
Snails are mollusks and are one of the most numerous animal species in the world. In terms of species diversity, they are second only to insects. Even ...

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Crested gecko
Their toes and tip of tail are covered in small hair called setae.
It helps them climb various surfaces, even smooth, vertical ones.
Lemon shark
Lemon sharks are sexually dimorphic.
Females are slightly larger than males, but their weight does not differ.
Rice's whale
It has been listed as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List.
Its population is estimated at 30 to 50 individuals.
Salamanders
Reproduction and eggs
While salamanders lay their eggs without shells and deposit them in a moist environment, lizards typ ...
Portuguese man-of-war
They are siphonophores, which means they are, in fact, living colonies of individual zooids, working as a unit.
Octopus
Octopuses have a so-called black pouch.
This organ stores sepia, produced by a nearby gland. Octopuses use sepia to disorient a predator while escaping. They then spray a thick, characteristic black stain.
Saola
Saola are native to Annamite Mountains on the border of Vietnam and Laos.
Giant panda
Due to the nature of their diet, pandas defecate up to 40 times a day.
The food excreted by the panda is not well digested because the time spent in the digestive system is too short to undergo all the necessary processes.
Tigers
In nature, the gene conditioning white fur occurs in one in ten thousand specimens.
Basking shark
Basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is a species of large marine cartilaginous fish.
Cartilaginous fishes are a cluster of aquatic vertebrates that includes chimaeras, rays and sharks - ...