Animals

Sunday, 16 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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Brown recluse spider
Its venom is necrotic.
Both male and female can inject venom. However poisonous, its bite is not deadly. People react diffe ...
Coyote
They sometimes come into conflict with humans.
They kill domestic animals, mainly sheep, as well as stray cats and small dogs. They also often look in household garbage cans for food.
Luna moth
Male luna moths can sense female pheromones at a distance of few kilometers.
Specific pheromone developed by luna moths does not affect any other insect species. Mating occurs with the first male encountered by a female.
Fleas
Fleas can jump over 30 centimeters high.
Amur leopard
Amur leopards are perfect hunters.
Although they would feed on hares, badgers, or mice, they prefer larger prey, even three times their ...
Sperm whale
Sperm whales have fifty large, conical teeth.
They are located in the mandible, and there are vestigial teeth in the jaw, which are covered with g ...
Common cuckoo
The common cuckoo is a migratory bird belonging to the cuckoo family.
There are four subspecies of the common cuckoo.
Gila monster
The Gila monster has an excellent sense of smell.
It uses it primarily to hunt for prey. It picks up the scent with its tongue, transferring it to the Jacobson organ—an olfactory organ located in the nasal cavity in many tetrapods.
Alligator snapping turtle
The alligator snapping turtle belongs to the family Chelydridae.
Leopard geckos
Since the temperature in their habitat drops during winter to harsh and freezing, leopard geckos enter a state of hibernation – brumation.
Leopard geckos hibernation depends on the ambient temperature, so, unlike mammals, the period of brumation is not fixed.