Animals
8 Surprising Facts about Platypuses
What animal is a mammal, but has the bill of a duck, lays eggs and lives in the water? A platypus – one of the … Read more
What animal is a mammal, but has the bill of a duck, lays eggs and lives in the water? A platypus – one of the … Read more
Looking like scaly anteaters with the defense mechanisms of armadillos, pangolins are actually peaceful, unobtrusive creatures with the unfortunate reputation of being the world’s most … Read more
Narwhals are the unicorns of the ocean. The only species of whale with a horn, male narwhals grow a long, spiraled tooth as they mature. … Read more
Pallas’s’s cats are adorable, expressive wild cats from Central Asia. Their unusual appearance and facial expressions have brought them fame as stars of YouTube videos … Read more
With their little smiles, axolotls are one of the cutest creatures in the animal kingdom. One of the world’s most unusual amphibians, they are valuable … Read more
Cassowaries look like they walked out of the dinosaur age. They are ratites, also known as flightless birds, and they are related to emus, ostriches, … Read more
Honey badgers have a reputation that precedes them. Found mostly in Africa and Southwest Asia, they are known to be nasty or ferocious, but more … Read more
Red pandas are absolutely adorable tree-living animals. Surprisingly, they are not related to giant pandas – in fact, they are the original, genuine panda with … Read more
Called “imps of darkness” and “disgusting, clumsy lizards” by Charles Darwin when he first visited the Galapagos Islands, marine iguanas are the only marine reptiles … Read more
Alligator snapping turtles are the largest freshwater turtles native to North America, growing up to 100 cm in length and weighing up to 90kg. With … Read more