The Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) is the fastest sea mammals. It speeds through the ocean at 45 kilometers per hour (km/hr). The killer whale hunts fish and larger mammals. It has a mouthful of pointed...
Amazing Killer Whale
Great White Sturgeon Facts
The white sturgeon Acipenser transmontanus also known as the Pacific sturgeon, Oregon sturgeon, Columbia sturgeon, Sacramento sturgeon, and California white sturgeon. It is the largest freshwater fish in North America and...
Lice Facts
Lice (singular: louse) Pediculosis capitis or head lice.The order has traditionally been divided into two suborders, the sucking lice (Anoplura) and the chewing lice (Mallophaga)the Mallophaga are paraphyletic and four...
Crows Facts
House Crow - photo © Rajiv Lather Crows form the genus Corvus in the family Corvidae. Crows are now considered to be among the world's most intelligent animals. Crows and ravens often score very...
Millipedes Facts
Millipedes / Diplopoda are arthropods that have two pairs of legs per segment.Most millipedes are poisonous. This protects them from being eaten. They are usually slow movers. Centipedes move faster, and only...
Centipede Facts
Centipede 'hundred legs' is the common name for any member of the arthropod class Chilopoda, comprising species with long, flattened bodies with many segments, and with one pair of jointed appendages on each segment except...
Gazelles Facts
Gazelles are known as fast animals - some are able to maintain speeds up to 60 miles per hour for long periods of time, or run at a speed of 30 mph for several miles. they can bounce off all four legs held in a rigid position,...
Chimpanzees - Amazing Facts
Chimpanzees are members of the Hominidae family, along with gorillas, humans, and orangutans. The chimpanzee is the animal that is closest to people genetically Chimpanzees are great apes that are closely related to humans. Recent...
Duiker Facts
A duiker is antelope species from the subfamily Cephalophinae native to Sub-Saharan Africa. Duiker is a tiny, shy antelope with only the males having short horns. They eat fruit, pods and seeds, roots, bark, flowers,...
Amazing Facts- The elk or wapiti
The elk or wapiti (Cervus canadensis) is one of the largest species of deer in the world. The elk is a large animal of the artiodactyle ungulate order, possessing an even number of toes on each foot, similar to those...
Bobcat or Lynx rufus Facts
Bobcat /Lynx rufus , sometimes called wildcats , it is smaller than the Canada lynx but is about twice as large as the domestic cat. Its tail appears to be cut or'bobbed' so named as bobcat. The bobcat is the most...
Chilean four eyed frog - Amazing Facts
The Chilean four eyed frog has a pair of eye-spot marks on its rear end. There are really big poisonous glands with spots on them , but they look like eyes . the spots are usually covered by the thighs...
Anteaters Facts
Anteaters, also known as antbear.The name "anteater" is also colloquially applied to the unrelated aardvark, numbat, echidna, and pangolin. It is commonly known for eating ants and termites.The Giant Anteater and regular...
Agouti Facts
Agouti designates several rodent species of the genus Dasyprocta, they are related to guinea pigs and look quite similar but have longer legs. Agoutis have five toes in front and three rear, the first toe is very small....
Tomato Frog Facts
Tomato frogs found on the island of Madagascar are tomato red in colour, with a black eye line and green eyes. Their skin secretes a sticky goo and if a predator bites it, the goo will gum up the attacker's mouth, and...
Mussel Facts
The word "mussel" is also used for many freshwater bivalves, including the freshwater pearl mussels. Freshwater mussel species inhabit lakes, ponds, rivers, creeks, canals. Mussels are classified with the Heterodonta, the...
Octopi, Optopuses, and Octopodes Facts
Octopuses are highly intelligent, probably more than any other order of invertebrates. When under attack, some octopuses can perform arm autotomy in a manner similar to the way skinks and lizards detach their tails. The...
Yaks Facts
The yak, Bos grunniens or Bos mutus - are the official animals of Tibet. About ten million of the world's yaks live on the Tibetan plateau. A yak is special because it is built to survive tough environments. They have three...
Temnospondyls Facts
Courtesy :WikipediaTemnospondyls are a strange and diverse group of the same early amphibians living in a variety of habitats, provided they were in the water or near the water. Most were semi-aquatic temnospondyls,...
Newts Facts
Newts metamorphose through three distinct developmental life stages: aquatic larva, terrestrial juvenile is called an eft, and adult. Adult newts have lizard-like bodies and can be fully aquatic, living permanently in water,...
Leopard Facts
The leopard (Panthera pardus) are the smallest of the four big cats , other three are lions, tigers and jaguars. Leopards are nocturnal animals, meaning they are active at night.During the day resting in thick bushes...
Amazing Facts- Cheetah
The word "cheetah" is derived from the Sanskrit word that means "variegated". Most wild cheetahs are found in eastern and southwestern Africa. The cheetah is the world's fastst land animals.The most interesting in...
Royal Bengal Tiger and White Tiger Facts
The Tiger is the largest wild cat in the world. Tigers can eat upto 27kilos of meat in one night. The Bengal tiger is called Panthera tigris tigris. Royal Bengal Tigers can have an incredible size ranging in length...
Purple Frog Facts
Its a "living fossil". Purple frog was found in a 'biodiversity hotspot', in the mountains of southern India. It is bloated and purple and has very tiny eyes.Common names for this species are Purple Frog, Indian Purple Frog,...
The Hindu : States / Kerala : New amphibian discovered
A team of researchers including from the Zoological Survey of India, Western Ghat Regional Centre, Kozhikode has discovered a new species of limbless amphibian from Western Ghats, additional director of ZSI centre Kozhikode,...
The Chinese Giant Salamander Facts
The Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) is the largest amphibian in the world. It reaches a maximun length of 1.8 metres. The Chinese salamander has a broad head and mouth, wrinkly skin and is usually dark coloured...
Beddome's Toad Facts - Amazing Facts
Beddome's Toad (Bufo beddomii) is a species of toad found in the Western Ghats of India. Beddome's Toad measures 1.75 inches from snout to vent. It is brown with indistinct black spots and limbs marbled with carmine. Its...
Echidna or Spiny Anteater Facts
The Echidna also known as the Spiny Anteater is a primitive oviparous{egg-laying} mammal that lives in Australia and New Guinea. Echidnas and the platypus are the only egg-laying mammals, known as monotremes. Echidnas are...
Damselfish Facts
Damselfish are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Osteichthyes, order Perciformes, family Pomacentridae. Damselfish belong to the Pomacentridae family. Aquarists often use Damselfish to biologically...
African Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus moquini)
Oystercatchers are shorebirds that live on temperate and tropical coasts around the world, occuring on every continent except Antarctica. There are 13 species worldwide , nine of which occur in southern hemisphere. They...
Basking Shark / Cetorhinus maximus Facts
The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is a huge filter feeding shark which grows to be up to about 33 feet long. It is the second largest shark after the whale shark . The basking shark is also called the sunfish,...
Aye-aye Facts - Amazing Facts
The Aye-aye is a mammal that lives in rain forests of Madagascar, a large island off the southeast coast of Africa. During the day, the Aye-aye sleeps in a nest which is located in the fork of a tree. It builds the...
Beluga Whale - Amazing Facts
The Beluga Whale or white whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is an Arctic and sub-Arctic cetacean. Male belugas are larger than females. Belugas have a dorsal ridge, rather than a dorsal fin. The evolutionary preference...
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