Animals

Hermann Schlegel, a German zoologist, discovered its pelt while on a survey in Korea.

Regeneration of lost limbs requires a lot of energy, very often more than an animal can deliver by consumption. In many cases, it reduces fat deposit reduction and impairs gonadal function.

They exhale air bubbles with captured smell and inhale them quickly again.

Sometimes the disturbance of their natural habitat by humans is the reason for their migrations.

When they lack food, they feed on carrion. Arctic fox usually finds animals left by other, more dangerous predators, such as wolves or bears.

The viper dogfish is the only extant species of the genus.

Enacted in 1972, it prohibits the take and import of marine mammal species.

Little Nicky was cloned in 2004 from a DNA of a 17-year-old cat named Nicky. The procedure cost US$50,000.

Only 0.5 percent of those bitten suffer serious health complications from it. Mortality is even rare ...