Animals

Sunday, 25 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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Lemon shark
Its eyesight is poor, thus it relies on electroreceptors called ampullae of Lorenzini.
However, their eyes possess both rods and cones, thus they are capable of seeing shapes and colors.
Dolphins
Dolphins are very good parents. After the baby is born, it is taken care of, and its mother very willingly and often plays with it.
Depending on the species, baby dolphins do not leave their mother's company for 3 to 8 years.
Brittle stars
There are species with no larval stage at all.
Amphipholis squamata, common in all parts of the British Isles is one of them.
Southern cassowary
Cassowaries are closely related to Kiwi birds.
They share a common ancestor that lived about 40 million years ago.
Southern cassowary
Southern cassowaries live in northeastern Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia.
Tropical rainforests are their primary habitat, but they can also be found in wetlands or savanna. It is estimated that from 20,000 to 50,000 birds live in the wild.
Common Surinam toad
Its body shape is clumsy, dorsally flattened - it resembles an angular flounder.
Its weight does not exceed 500 g. The muzzle is pointed, and the thorax is wide with a square outlin ...
Corn snake
Corn snakes are highly praised occupants of corn fields since they viciously hunt for rodents.
Leeches
Leeches provide food for many aquatic and terrestrial animal species.
These include other leeches, crayfish, some species of aquatic insects and their larvae, fish, waterfowl, and some species of mammals.
Narwhal
We will not meet any narwhal outside their natural environment.
Attempts to breed narwhal in captivity ended with failure, because the animals die very quickly after being caught.
Common cuckoo
It is the only brood parasite in Central Europe.
It lays its eggs in the nests of about 300 birds, mostly of the passerine family.