Animals

Thursday, 2 October 2025
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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Brazilian wandering spiders
During storage and transport, females are able to weave a cocoon and lay eggs.
The container ship used to transport bananas from South America to Europe sails from a week to even ...
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 ...
Great grey shrike
It can be sighted in most European countries, northwestern and northeastern parts of Africa, and eastern Asia.
Brown recluse spider
They are active from March to October.
Common cuckoo
It lives in wooded or shrubby areas.
It is not comfortable in dense forests, so it usually chooses forest edges, parks, gardens, trees in fields and meadows, marshes and dunes.
Mallard
The global population of the mallard duck is estimated at 19 million individuals.
There are between 900.000 and 1,2 million during the breeding season. The mallard is probably the most numerous duck species.
Platypus
Platypuses feed primarily on invertebrates that live on the bottom of bodies of water.
In rivers they find shrimp, crayfish, annelids, and insect larvae. They hunt by catching floating specimens or by digging in the bottom of the water body.
Fleas
They can lift objects 150 times heavier than their body weight.
Asian elephant
There are three subspecies of Asian elephants.
Sri Lankan elephant (Elephas maximus maximus), found in Sri Lanka; Indian elephant (Elephas maximus ...
Narwhal
Narwals are communicating thanks to echolocation.