Animals

Courtship begins as early as December. They breed one brood per year, the eggs being laid in the first weeks of May. A female can lay 5 to 7 white eggs, 26x19 mm in size.

During mating season, females emit a peculiar scent to attract males, and males emit a voice that resembles the ticking of a clock.

The body length of this species ranges from 30 to 40 mm (females are larger), and the leg span can r ...

These animals appeared about 22 million years ago. Other fossil specimens dated 15 million years ago and inhabited the North Atlantic.

For many years researchers thought that ocean sunfish moves only by drifting with ocean currents. Wi ...

It is found in all populated parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia and the Americas, in the Arctic and in tropical equatorial forests, where it is widespread.

It fights and wins against a T-Rex in a spectacular fight. In reality, those creatures couldn't meet because they lived in different times, about 20 million years apart.

Their diet consists of rodents, insects, reptiles, birds, and snakes.

They feed on selected sponges species, such as Tethya actinia, Aaptos aaptos, or Spheciospongia vesparium. Thanks to their pointed beaks, extracting sponges is easy.

Most of them feed only on meat, although there are species (Bagheera Kipling) whose diet consists of ...