Animals

Saturday, 18 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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Arctic fox
Most polar foxes do not survive the first year of their lives.
Capybaras
Their meat is also prized by humans.
Capybara meat has long been an ingredient in the food of South America’s indigenous peoples. Today, ...
Horseshoe crab
Blood is being extracted from living animals.
It is estimated that between 10% and 30% of the animals do not survive the process. Approximately 500,000 horseshoe crabs are harvested for blood annually.
Sloth
They do not need a special water source to quench their thirst.
All they need is dew or raindrops.
Tawny frogmouth
They lay one to three eggs in single clutch.
Both parent incubate eggs but males do it during the day and partners change over at night. Brooding bird is provided with food by it’s partner.
Corn snake
The breeding activity of captive corn snakes led to over 800 morphs.
The rarest is the scaleless corn snake, which costs approximately US$500.
Vaquita
Their signature trait is a black spot around their mouths and eyes.
Sand lizard
Mostly they fall prey to weasels, foxes, badgers, birds, and snakes.
Of the domesticated animals, cats and chickens pose the greatest threat to them.
Ladybugs
Ladybirds’ main predators are birds.
They also fall prey to dragonflies, frogs, and spiders.
Octopus
The oldest known octopus is Pohlsepia, which lived 296 million years ago.
Due to the soft body of these organisms, there are not many octopus fossils found.