Animals

Sunday, 2 August 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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Ladybugs
One ladybug can eat around 5,000 aphids throughout its life.
Adder
Adders stick out their tongue to orient themselves to their surroundings.
In doing so, they collect the scent around them and then transfer it to their mouth cavity to the so-called Jacobson’s organ, which analyzes olfactory signals.
Common cuckoo
In the breeding season it inhabits Eurasia from the British Isles throughout central Europe and Scandinavia, Asia except for the polar zones, the Arabian Peninsula and India.
Earthworms
There are species of earthworms that are resistant to frost, which makes their area of distribution reach as far as Siberia.
Spiders
Female spiders can lay up to 3000 eggs.
They are often stored in silk cocoons that maintain appropriate humidity. Spider larvae undergo metamorphosis while still in the cocoons and leave them when they reach a mature body shape.
Ocean sunfish
They are being mistaken for sharks.
Because ocean sunfish often swim near the water's surface, their dorsal fin protrudes above the wate ...
Lemon shark
They are commonly found in coastal subtropical waters.
They occupy mostly the eastern shores of both the Americas, the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, and the western coast of north and central Africa.
Red-necked wallaby
The young usually emerges from the pouch when it is seven months old.
Ball python
They are mostly nocturnal.
They spend the majority of their days in holes and burrows.
Jellyfish
Jellyfish is in fact a name of a free-swimming phase in the Medusozoa life cycle.
The term “jellyfish” is commonly used to describe a marine animal, distinguished by its umbrella-shaped bells and tentacles, but it is in fact a predatory, sexual stage of medusozoan cnidarians.