Animals

Wednesday, 28 January 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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Goblin shark
They are solitary creatures, that behavioral features are yet to be examined.
Research of those fish has to be made in ocean waters as no individual survived in captivity for more than a week.
Otters
Females give birth to one pup after two to three months of gestation.
Pups become fully independent after a year, until which time they stay with their family.
Sand lizard
The life expectancy of a sand lizard in the wild is 5 to 8 years.
Males can live up to 12 years and females up to 18 years, but this is rare due to predation.
Salamanders
Respiration
While lizards have only one organ responsible for respiration-the lungs, salamanders rely on skin, gills or lungs (or, in some species, the combination of skin and lungs altogether).
Ball python
It is black or dark brown, with light brown blotches, and a cream underbelly.
Their colors and patterns vary so much, it is said there are no two identical ball pythons in the wild.
Common Surinam toad
The incubation period lasts about 130 days.
After this time and complete resorption of the tail, the young leave the pockets in the mother’s ski ...
Brittle stars
Most of them feed on detritus or are scavengers. Some are predators that prey on small crustaceans and worms.
Using special hooks placed on their limbs, they filter out plankton. Every species has its own prefe ...
Great grey shrike
Their sexual dimorphism is not visible through coloration.
Both males and females look the same.
French Bulldog
There are nine standard colors of the French Bulldog.
These are white, white and brindle, brindle, brindle and white, white and fawn, fawn, fawn and white, fawn brindle, and cream.
Gila monster
Scientists believe that since it preys on small animals and eggs, it evolved to use the venom solely to scare away predators.