Animals

Tuesday, 28 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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Great spotted woodpecker
The great spotted woodpecker reaches sexual maturity at the age of one year.
To impress a female, the male performs a spectacular flight show, flapping his wings, spreading his tail, and calling for her.
Common Surinam toad
Only eggs laid on the back of the female can develop. Those that have fallen to the bottom of the water body die.
In the first few days of development, some of the eggs that have been shallowly buried in the female’s skin are also pushed out by eggs deeper in the skin.
Horseshoe crab
They feed on clams, polychaetes, small fish and decayed organic debris.
The mouth opening is located on the underside of the body between the legs. They move the food into the mouth with chelicerae—a pair of small appendages.
Mallard
It is not an endangered species.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies the common mallard as a species of least concern.
Horseshoe crab
They live in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of North and Central America and near the Asian coasts in the Pacific.
Hedgehogs
They can climb and swim.
Their spikes possess air chambers that support swimming and ensure better buoyancy, allowing them to ...
Quokkas
Australian law is very strict with human-quokkas interactions.
They are not to be petted, cuddled, hugged, or fed. There was a case of a tourist who threw a quokka off a boat to see if it could swim. Although quokkas do swim, the man was jailed.
Stingrays
They display sexual dimorphism.
Females are not only larger than males and live longer, but they also reach sexual maturity faster.
Northern pike
Spawning takes place in early spring - in March or April.
The males arrive at the spawning site a few weeks before the females. During spawning, eggs are depo ...
Ladybugs
Ladybug larvae are quite distinctive.
They have a prolonged abdomen, black with yellow or orange dots, with legs sticking out of their body. Some say they resemble miniature alligators.