Animals

Tuesday, 30 December 2025
15 facts about fleas
15 facts about fleas
External parasites
Fleas are one of the most hated insects by pet owners. Once they find their way onto a dog or a cat, they are very hard to remove. Reproducing at a ve ...

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European mole cricket
It is widely distributed in Europe, especially in southern Europe.
It also lives in northern Africa and western Asia.
Javan leopard
It is listed as endangered by the IUCN Red List.
It faces a fragmentation of its habitat and agricultural expansion.
Spiders
Spiders are arthropods.
These are invertebrates whose body is divided into segments and have an external skeleton. Spiders are classified as arachnids, which include approximately 112.000 species of animals.
Okapi
Okapi lives only in the Ituri equatorial forest in Central Africa in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Tigers
Tigers hunt prey no matter its size.
The only animals capable of withstanding their voraciousness are adult, healthy rhinos and elephants. In the clash between a tiger and a brown bear, the tiger usually wins.
Wolf spider
They are solitary creatures.
Wolf spiders live a lonely life and are seen with other representative of their species only during mating season which occur in mid-summer.
Earthworms
Earthworms, depending on the species, can reach a length of 1 centimeter to 1 meter.
Pterodactyls
Pteranodon fossils were unearthed in North America in 1870 by the American paleontologist Othniel C. Marsh.
The placement of fossils suggests they inhabited present-day Alabama, Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, and Wyoming.
Insects
The size of currently living insects seems "just right" to us. However, if we moved back in time about 285 million years, we might get a shock.
At that time, the Earth was inhabited by giant dragonfly-like insects, the largest of which was Mega ...
Giant panda
Unlike other bears, the giant panda does not go into hibernation.