Animals

Friday, 16 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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Spiders
The excretory system of spiders is composed of iliac glands and Malpighian tubules.
They capture harmful metabolites from the hemolymph and direct them to the cloaca, from where they escape through the anus.
Okapi
Adult okapi weights about 250 kilograms.
Ladybugs
Seven-spots ladybugs are native to Europe.
They were introduced to North America in the mid-1900s in order to control the aphid population.
Coyote
Vitiligo is extremely rare in coyotes.
Of the 750,000 individuals observed, only two were albino.
Luna moth
Females lay 200 to 400 eggs.
They are placed singly or in small groups on the underside of leaves of trees. It takes about a week for eggs to hatch.
Spotted hyena
Spotted crocs are found in large areas of Africa, south of the Sahara.
Their range extends from the Sahel (a geographic area stretching along the southern fringes of the S ...
Pink river dolphin
It is the main attraction of the Amazon River, despite not being the only dolphin species available in the Amazon.
Yellow spotted lizard
There are four subspecies of yellow-spotted tropical lizards.
Lepidophyma flavimaculatum flavimaculatum, Lepidophyma flavimaculatum ophiophthalmum, Lepidophyma flavimaculatum tehuanae, Lepidophyma flavimaculatum tenebrarum.
Ball python
The unique morph is the Stormtrooper.
This black and white morph was named after the famous imperial soldier armor from the Star Wars fran ...
Syrian brown bear
It is the only known bear in the world to have white claws.
In the wild, these animals live for about 20-25 years.