Animals

Friday, 17 July 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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Corn snake
They lack eyelids.
They do have, however, a skin layer over their eyes to moisturize them. Once the layer is dry, a corn snake will shed it, just as it sheds its skin.
Spiders
Since spiders do not have antennae, their legs take over.
The bristles covering them have the ability to detect sounds, smells, vibrations, and air movements.
Shoebill
The eyes of these birds are relatively large, shifted forward, providing Shoebills with better three-dimensional vision.
The eyes are yellowish or grayish-white in color.
Malaysian trumpet snail
The red-rimmed melania living in the waters of Israel has usually darker shells, allowing them to camouflage better against the basalt rocks.
Black Caiman
They are nocturnal.
Their skin coloration allows them to camouflage during their hunts at night.
Portuguese man-of-war
They have no individual movement method; they float with the current or the wind.
Octopus
Octopuses have a so-called black pouch.
This organ stores sepia, produced by a nearby gland. Octopuses use sepia to disorient a predator while escaping. They then spray a thick, characteristic black stain.
Snails
Snails can breathe using gills or primitive lungs.
The vast majority of sea snails are equipped with gills, some freshwater snails also breathe with th ...
Horseshoe crab
The horseshoe crab is currently not an endangered species.
However, the capture and destruction of their habitats raises some concerns about the future of these animals.
True seals
The oldest fossil specimens of seal representatives are from the early Miocene.
These animals appeared about 22 million years ago. Other fossil specimens dated 15 million years ago and inhabited the North Atlantic.