Animals

The armor consists of a convex carapace located on top and a flat plastron that covers the animal from below.

The biggest of the genus is the great hammerhead. The record holder is a female caught in 2006 who weighed almost 581 kilograms. The reason for her unusual weight, however, was pregnancy.

It was named in recognition of Dale Rice’s discovery of the species.

The most popular is leopard gecko.

Of the domesticated animals, cats and chickens pose the greatest threat to them.

It can be found in the Galapagos, Colombia and Venezuela’s coasts, the Yucatan peninsula’s northern ...

Sometimes they overwinter in the company of other lizards, snakes and amphibians.

They are friendly toward humans and are said to push them back ashore when they go too far in the river.

Examples of such insects are the beetle Blaptica dubia and the fly Glossina palpalis (tse-tse).

Scientific name for the family is Lycosidae.