Animals

Wednesday, 15 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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Red panda
Red pandas eat 20-30 percent of their body weight in bamboo daily.
It is because of the digestive system of carnivores.
Slow worm lizard
Its range includes northern Spain and Portugal, areas of England, all of central Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa.
Hawksbill sea turtle
They fell prey to sharks, large fish, octopuses, and crocodiles.
Octopus
Most octopuses lead solitary lives, but we also encounter species that live in larger communities.
Hummingbirds
On average, hummingbirds beat their wings about 90 times per second. But there are exceptions.
This occurs in male ruby-throated hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris) during courtship. These birds can flap their wings up to 200 times per second.
Bird of Paradise
Most species live in tropical, mist, mangrove forests, and swamps.
Almost all inhabit trees, but they can also be found closer to the forest floor. Manucodes, especial ...
American robin
It is common, that Brown-headed cowbirds lay their eggs in robin nests.
Study shows that it’s not easy to fool a robin and, in most cases, future parent get rid of unwanted eggs from its nest.
Hippopotamus
Hippos have been known to historians since ancient times.
The first images of these animals were cave paintings in the mountains of the central Sahara. One of ...
Mallard
The average lifespan of a mallard duck in the wild is 3 years. However, they can live much longer, even more than 20.
The oldest documented age of these birds is 29 years.
Great spotted woodpecker
They are quite contrastingly colored - black and white with a red underbelly.
The top of the head, back, wings, tail and rump are black. The underside is white with a characteris ...