Animals

Friday, 31 July 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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Saola
Their tails are short, brown-beige-black.
Arabian oryx
Oryxes are able to survive in very harsh conditions.
They can endure prolonged droughts, very high temperatures, and strong winds. They can survive droug ...
Crustacean
Crustaceans are arthropods that include lobsters, crabs, crayfish, shrimp, krill, centipedes, and whiskers, among others.
To date, about 67.000 species of these animals have been described.
Sand lizard
They are very territorial.
They defend the territory they occupy and the burrow within it, which they can inhabit for life. The ...
Shoebill
The Shoebill is a large bird.
The length of its body (from the tail to the beak) is from 100 to 140 cm (39 to 55 in). The height o ...
Guinea pig
The domestic cavy does not occur naturally in the wild.
It is likely descended from closely related species of cavies, such as Cavia aperea, Cavia fulgida, ...
American mink
The wild population of American mink spread thanks to the Soviet Union, which from 1937 to the 1950s carried out a large-scale acclimatization campaign for these animals.
About 20.000 were probably released then into the wild, and they spread rapidly.
Shoebill
Shoebills are nonmigratory birds that move periodically in search of food.
Sometimes the disturbance of their natural habitat by humans is the reason for their migrations.
Wolf spider
Most active at night or during cloudy days they can travel long distance in search for food.
Syrian brown bear
In 2018, a Syrian sleeping bear was killed by Iraqi forces on the Iraq-Syria border.
These bears are protected under the CITES Animal Trade Convention (Washington Convention).The number ...