Animals

Saturday, 28 March 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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Earthworms
There are species of earthworms that are resistant to frost, which makes their area of distribution reach as far as Siberia.
Clownfish
Male is taking care of nest and hatchlings.
After the copulation he is responsible for taking care of the nest. He removes dead eggs with his mouth and uses pectoral fins to circulate water to provide it fresh and oxygen abundant.
Black Caiman
The black caiman is dark-scaled, typically black.
The coloring can vary, however, from mottled gray, and dark brown, to olive.
Sloth
Sloths are herbivores, and their diet consists of leaves, flowers, fruit, and shoots.
Their stomachs are multichambered and inhabited by cellulose-eating bacteria. Digestion is very slow. Sloths descend to the ground to defecate, but it happens only once a week.
Brittle stars
There are over 2000 discovered species distributed around the world.
Scientists estimate that there might be over 3000 species in total.
Yellow spotted lizard
They can be found in southern North America and Central America.
The population is distributed from central Mexico through Panama. They prefer moist and wet forested areas.
Corn snake
Their body length ranges from 60 to 182 centimeters.
Octopus
While swimming, the systemic or main heart stops working.
This causes the octopus to tire quickly and therefore the organisms prefer to move along the bottom using their arms.
Ladybugs
Ladybug larvae are quite distinctive.
They have a prolonged abdomen, black with yellow or orange dots, with legs sticking out of their body. Some say they resemble miniature alligators.
Viper dogfish
It is listed as the least concern on the IUCN Red List.