Animals

Saturday, 11 July 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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Brazilian wandering spiders
The bite of the Brazilian cottonmouth can cause priapism.
This affliction causes a prolonged and painful erection in men that is in no way caused by sexual arousal. If bitten by these spiders, symptoms can last up to five hours.
Stingrays
They are carnivorous.
Their diet consists of small animals found on or under the sand. The typical meal comprises ray-finned fish, crustaceans, snails, shrimps, and worms.
Aye-aye
Aye-aye was classified as a lemur in the mid-1800s but later reclassified in its own group by itself.
Bird of Paradise
Raggiana bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea raggiana) is featured in the emblem and flag of Papua New Guinea.
Dodo bird
The shape of the 20-centimeter-long beak indicates that these birds were seed-eaters.
The only description of the dodo’s diet dates back to 1631. It is placed in a Dutch letter, which wa ...
Earthworms
These animals usually fall prey to frogs, birds, and moles.
Yellow spotted lizard
They are omnivorous.
They feed primarily on insects, but plants can also be found in the yellow-spotted night lizard diet ...
Arabian oryx
Like all antelopes, oryx are herbivores.
They feed mainly on grass, but also on fruits, tubers, shoots, buds of other plants, roots and herbs.
Fleas
Fleas are successful acrobats.
The first mention of a flea circus dates back to 1578, and a watchmaker Mark Scaliot, who created a ...
Salamanders
Reproduction and eggs
While salamanders lay their eggs without shells and deposit them in a moist environment, lizards typ ...