Animals

Sunday, 8 November 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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French Bulldog
There are two types of French Bulldog ears.
The “rose ears”, typically folded over, are common among the English Bulldogs, and once upon a time ...
Arctic fox
It lives in the northern hemisphere, especially in the Arctic tundra biome.
It can be found from Alaska through the northern part of North America, in Greenland and Iceland, in the northern part of Scandinavia, and throughout north Eurasia.
Tigers
Females can claim a territory of 60 to 100 square kilometers, while males up to 20 square kilometers.
They mark their territories with urine, excrement, and scent glands.
Spiders
Female spiders can lay up to 3000 eggs.
They are often stored in silk cocoons that maintain appropriate humidity. Spider larvae undergo metamorphosis while still in the cocoons and leave them when they reach a mature body shape.
Sea lamprey
They migrate upstream from bodies of water to spawn.
Fish that behave in this way are called anadromous. When they reach their destination, the male begi ...
Blue tang
The royal blue tang reaches sexual maturity at 9 - 12 months of age.
Common cuckoo
Cuckoos never raise their own chicks.
Their job is merely to drop an egg into a stranger's nest. When the nest owner realizes that the egg has been tossed, he may throw it or leave the nest altogether.
Cane toad
The bufotoxin produced by the toad's skin is very dangerous to animals and can kill them quickly.
Dogs tend to be poisoned because they often bite or lick cane toads. Exposure to the toxin can cause drooling, loss of coordination, head shaking and convulsions.
Kiwi bird
Kiwi are sexually dimorphic.
Females are approximately 20% larger than males.
Zebra mussel
They reproduce sexually.
Fertilization takes place in water. The number of eggs produced by a female may reach one million. Usually, in every cycle, from 30 to 40 thousand eggs can be produced.