Animals

Saturday, 12 July 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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White-browed tit-warbler
Their average lifespan is up to four years.
Great grey shrike
It awaits its prey on the tree top but is also known for hovering.
Blue-Tongued Lizard
When posed to danger, they can shed tail to distract predator.
Skinks have an ability to regrow the tail, but size and shape may differ from the original.
Pink river dolphin
The Amazon river dolphin acquires its pink hue with age.
It is gray when born.
Fleas
There are 2,500 known flea species.
New species are being continuously identified.
Wolf spider
Wolf spiders have eight eyes and two of them are really big.
They have their eyes arranged in three rows with big eyes in the middle one. Those big eyes reflect ...
Portuguese man-of-war
They are commonly confused with jellyfish, thanks to their tentacles.
Fossa
They are both diurnal and nocturnal.
Brittle stars
They use chemoreceptors in search of food.
Laughing kookaburra
Laughing kookaburras are family birds.
They pair for life and use the help of their grown younglings in the process of incubating the eggs, and feeding and protecting them from predators.