Animals

Thursday, 26 March 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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Grey heron
Their breeding season begins at the end of February and lasts until early June.
In the beginning, males look for a convenient location to build a nest, most often in the branches o ...
Snails
The most important sense of land snails is smell.
The olfactory organs are located at the tips of the snail's antennae. Marine species, on the other hand, use chemoreceptors more frequently.
Lemon shark
Lemon sharks are very social.
They live in organized groups with a strict hierarchy and complex social rules.
American flamingo
They are wading birds that are helped in their search for food by their long legs.
They use their feet to chase down aquatic creatures, then fish them out with their beak. Flamingos o ...
Brittle stars
Serpent stars have very different body colors.
There are individuals black, white, brown, blue, red with dotted and striped patterns.
Salamanders
Reproduction and eggs
While salamanders lay their eggs without shells and deposit them in a moist environment, lizards typ ...
Bird of Paradise
There is no information on the lifespan of birds of paradise in the wild.
In captivity, they survive about 30 years.
Platypus
Monotremes are an order of primitive oviparous mammals.
Their Latin name - Monotremata refers to the fact that their digestive, excretory, and reproductive systems share a common duct named cloaca.
Arctic fox
Arctic fox's burrows are located on hills in unfrozen soil.
A complex of burrows can cover up to 1,000 square meters. Tunneling systems can function for decades ...
Crustacean
The diet of different crustacean species varies greatly.
Most are scavengers but some are carnivores, some are herbivores, and still others are filter feeders or parasites. The prey of parasitic crustaceans is usually fish, whales, or other crustaceans.