Animals

Saturday, 14 February 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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Wolf spider
Wolf spiders have eight eyes and two of them are really big.
They have their eyes arranged in three rows with big eyes in the middle one. Those big eyes reflect ...
Ball python
The unique morph is the Stormtrooper.
This black and white morph was named after the famous imperial soldier armor from the Star Wars fran ...
Fleas
Fleas are holometabolous.
They undergo all four stages throughout their life cycle: egg, larva, pupa, and adult (called imago).
Clownfish
Most popular clownfish species are:
Amphiprion ocellaris Amphiprion clarkii Amphiprion percula Amphiprion akallopisos
Tawny frogmouth
There are three distinct color morphs of those birds.
Their plumage can be silvery-gray or brown with black streaks. Those colors are perfect for camouflage.
Tasmanian devil
Tasmanian devils prefer burrows as shelter. They most often use those left by wombats.
Each individual has several burrows that it uses. They also pass from generation to generation so that one burrow can provide shelter for dozens of generations of devils over hundreds of years.
Earthworms
There are more than 670 species of earthworms.
Snails
Snails can breathe using gills or primitive lungs.
The vast majority of sea snails are equipped with gills, some freshwater snails also breathe with th ...
Otters
90% of sea otters live on the coast of Alaska.
Malaysian trumpet snail
The red-rimmed melania can transfer parasites dangerous to humans.
It hosts parasitic lungworms, such as the Chinese liver fluke and the oriental lung fluke, that can cause clonorchiasis and paragonimiasis.