Animals

While diving they can stay underwater for about 40 seconds. Between one dive and another platypuses rest above the water surface for about 20 seconds.

It is mainly because of the elevation they prefer to nest.

There can be much more (up to 25), but this does not happen very often. Newborn skinks are self-sufficient and leave mother after few days to live their own life.

First, rumors of a "terrestrial crocodile" reached Lieutenant Steyn van Hensbroek from the Dutch col ...

There are about 10 confirmed lemon shark bites.

Vombatus, whose only representative is the common wombat; Lasiorhinus, containing two species: northern hairy-nosed wombat, also called yaminon, and southern hairy-nosed wombat.

Only 25 % of young birds survive the first year.

Both male and female participate in building nest.

The population is distributed from central Mexico through Panama. They prefer moist and wet forested areas.

Females become sexually mature at the age of 2, and males at the age of 3. Pregnancy lasts 242-264 d ...