Animals

Wednesday, 2 July 2025
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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Komodo dragon
In 1926, an American naturalist and filmmaker William Douglas Burden visited Komodo Island in search of the Komodo dragon.
Along with his first wife, Catherine, Burden set out to find the dragon from Komodo, which was label ...
American robin
There are about 320 million of this birds, so they are not an endangered species.
IUCN lists robins as LC (least concern).
Rice's whale
The reproduction takes place every two to three years.
Red panda
The internet browser “Firefox” is named after the red panda.
It is also in the browser’s logo.
Tasmanian devil
Tasmanian devils can swim and swim quite well.
They can cross rivers as wide as 50 meters in this way. Observations show that such swimming gives them pleasure even when the water is very cold.
Central bearded dragon
They usually move on four legs, but they can also run on two legs.
They do this when they feel threatened or are chasing prey. Adults can run at a speed of 14 km/h.
Sperm whale
The spermaceti (Physeter macrocephalus), also known as the sperm whale or cachalot, is a marine mammal in the sperm whale family (Physeteridae).
Sperm whales are classified into Odontoceti within the clade Cetacea. The common name for some mamma ...
Brittle stars
They use chemoreceptors in search of food.
Insects
Not all insects undergo a complete transformation.
There are three developmental stages of an incomplete transformation: egg, larva and adult (imago). ...
Toco toucan
Toco toucans are considered a fairly common species.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature has recognized them as a species of least concern (LC), continuously since 1988.