Animals

Wednesday, 4 November 2026
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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Platypus
The territory of the adult platypus covers an area of about 7 km².
Platypuses live in oval-shaped burrows located near the water surface.
Spinosaurus
It was discovered by German paleontologist Ernst Stromer.
He found fossilized bones of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus on Egyptian land in 1912 and described them in 1915.
Lemon shark
It is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN.
It is a target of both commercial and recreational fishing. Its fins and skin hold high commercial value.
Tasmanian devil
The Tasmanian devil belongs to the marsupial family.
It includes 69 species of which the Tasmanian devil is the only representative of the genus Sarcophilus. It is the largest currently living carnivorous marsupial.
American mink
Farmed mink varieties are 30 percent larger than wild mink species and weigh twice as much.
The farm produced over 200 colorful varieties of mink. They include white, black, brown, yellow (so-called palomino), silvery-blue, and "velvet", which is characterized by short, silky hair.
Insects
There are also insects that are oviparous.
Examples of such insects are the beetle Blaptica dubia and the fly Glossina palpalis (tse-tse).
Tasmanian devil
They inhabit only Tasmania and Robbins Island, to which the passage from Tasmania is exposed at low tide.
In the Pleistocene, Tasmanian devils still inhabited Australia but became extinct about 3000 years a ...
Otters
Depending on the species, otters can hold their breath underwater for five to eight minutes.
Their lung capacity is approximately 2.5 times larger than other mammals of similar size.
Sand lizard
Despite the high number of those reptiles, the population of the sand lizard has declined.
Progressing industrialization, which deprives the lizards of their habitat, can be considered the main reason.
Insects
They live in many different environments.
Insects can be found both in water, on land, and in the air. Some live in droppings, carrion or wood.