Animals

Saturday, 7 March 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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Pink river dolphin
They mate from November to late October.
Jellyfish
They are composed of 98% of water.
Jellyfish washed ashore will evaporate in several hours.
Brown recluse spider
Female brown recluse needs to mate only once to produce eggs throughout its entire life.
One female can produce roughly around 150 spiderlings per year.
Axolotl
The species is critically threatened with extinction.
Currently, the number of wild individuals ranges from 500 to 1,000. It is mainly due to the increasi ...
Rice's whale
A typical male does not exceed 10 meters in length.
The largest male of the species was measured to be 11.26 meters in length.
Cane toad
It has become a pest in many host countries and poses a severe threat to native animals.
Native predators are not adapted to the toad's poison, which kills them.
Spiders
The vast majority of spiders reproduce sexually. Semen is not introduced into the female's body through the genitals, but stored in special containers located on the pedipalps.
Only after these containers are filled with sperm does the male set out to look for a partner. Durin ...
Llamas
Coat structure
Llamas have coarse coat with fine hidden underneath. Alpacas are fluffy with a fine hair all over their bodies. Their fleece is very dense and fast-growing.
Alpaca
Alpacas have the splitted upper lip characteristic of camelids and continuously growing teeth that must be trimmed.
Alpacas that feed on silica-rich plants partially wear down their teeth.
Rice's whale
Because Rice’s whale resembles the Bryde’s whale, it is distinguished by its skeletal anatomy and genetics.