Animals

Sunday, 16 November 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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Goblin shark
Bizarre snout is probably the most distinctive body feature of those fish.
Goblin sharks have long and flat snouts, small eyes that lack nictitating membrane (which is unusual ...
Spiders
To make up for the lack of proteins, spiders eat the webs they weave.
Thanks to this, they can weave a new, fresh one without having to hunt when the old web is no longer ...
Stingrays
Stingrays mostly occupy tropical and subtropical waters.
Depending on the species, they can also be found in temperate oceans, and even in the deep ocean.
Crested gecko
They can also make their colors more vibrant due to camouflage, communication or as a response to humidity, temperature, light, etc.
Salamanders
Juveniles
Newly hatched salamander is in a larval form that needs to metamorphose before becoming an adult for ...
Central bearded dragon
The bearded agama is a lizard from the agamaceae family.
There are about 350 species of Agamidae, divided into 50 genera.
Stingrays
They show no hostility towards humans and attack only when provoked.
Most attacks are caused by humans accidentally stepping on them and are not lethal. There have been ...
Blue tang
They tend to swim in large schools, usually accompanied by other species from the family Acanthuridae.
They are very sociable, so it is advised to keep at least a pair of blue tongs together. However, males tend to be aggressive toward each other.
Spiders
The vast majority of spiders reproduce sexually. Semen is not introduced into the female's body through the genitals, but stored in special containers located on the pedipalps.
Only after these containers are filled with sperm does the male set out to look for a partner. Durin ...
Blue-Tongued Lizard
In search for food they rely mostly on smell.
They are equipped with Jacobson’s organ which lays on their palate. It is a chemoreceptor that aids lizard’s nose in search of chemical compounds emitted by their prey.