Animals

Saturday, 24 October 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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Octopus
The equivalent of the kidneys in octopuses is the so-called nephridia.
Earthworms
The stomach of earthworms is made up of two parts.
The first section is the goiter, which is responsible for storing food. The second section is the fleshy stomach, where the food is broken down mechanically.
Axolotl
Axolotl's eyes are lidless.
It is because eyelids are developed during metamorphosis. This process allows amphibians to adapt to a terrestrial lifestyle.
Jellyfish
Jellyfish boarded a space shuttle.
In 1991, in the Space Shuttle Columbia, NASA sent thousands of jellyfish into orbit in order to stud ...
Black-headed python
Black headed pythons favor dry and scrubby areas but they are not found in extremely dry places.
They can be found across semiarid regions as well as at savannas or grasslands. Can be found also in humid forested areas and agricultural regions.
Rice's whale
Rice’s whale is protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
Enacted in 1972, it prohibits the take and import of marine mammal species.
Bird of Paradise
Birds of paradise feed mainly on fruits and arthropods, and some on nectar and small vertebrates.
There are species among them that eat only fruit, but there are also typical carnivores. Carnivorous ...
Otters
Pups born in captivity and raised by humans may grow too attached to them to be safely released into the wild.
Instead of hand-rearing pups, it is better to present one to a female, who most likely will adopt it and care for the pup herself.
Tigers
Tigers rarely climb trees.
They rest in the shade under trees, and on the Siberian steppes in rock clefts.
Kiwi bird
Because of the high death rate, the kiwi population is managed.
In unmanaged populations, their numbers decline by roughly 2% a year, mostly because of the small survival rate of kiwi chicks in the wild.