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Blanket Octopus Facts The Blanket Octopus, or Tremoctopus, forms a genus of pelagic cephalopods. Also, the genus contains four currently known species that occupy surface to mid-waters in subtropical and tropical oceans. The common name of the breathtaking creature, understandably, occurs due to the long transparent webs it develops. Further, these connect the dorsal and […]Read More
Flamingo Tongue Snail Facts The descriptive term of Flamingo Tongue Snail serves as the accepted common name for a remarkable variety of sea snail. This marvel of Nature also goes by another name, however. Among researchers, it’s known by the name Cyphoma gibbosum. Regardless of which name one uses, it remains a most fascinating creature. […]Read More
Mitchell’s Satyr Butterfly Facts The Mitchell’s Satyr Butterfly represents a highly endangered species of insect. It originally evolved as endemic to a very restricted region comprising four states in the United States. These consisted of Ohio, New Jersey, Michigan, and Indiana. The beautiful Lepidoptera also remains one of the rarest known butterflies on the planet. Only […]Read More
Flamboyant Cuttlefish Facts The flesh of this astonishing creature holds within it certain acids which make the flesh of the animal inedible for humans. Surprisingly, the Flamboyant Cuttlefish is also actually highly toxic. This makes the species one of only three known poisonous cephalopods in all the world’s oceans. In fact, the toxicity level of […]
Caribbean Reef Octopus Facts Firstly, the astounding Caribbean Reef Octopus distinguishing itself in a remarkable way. That’s because each of the eight tentacles of the cephalopod often measures different lengths and thickness. Secondly, yet another surprising fact sets the fascinating animal apart from its kin. In relation to overall body size, this creature also has […]
Pellucid Hawkmoth Facts The unique term of Pellucid Hawkmoth serves as the most frequently used common name for this moth. The marvel of Nature also goes by several alternates, however. These include the terms of the coffee clearwing and the coffee bee hawkmoth. Scientists, meanwhile, know it by quite a different term, as is the […]
Somersaulting Spider Facts Firstly, Somersaulting Spider serves as the common name of the Cebrennus rechenbergi. This quite unique creature represents a recently discovered species of desert-dwelling spider. Furthermore, the first known sighting of this species by a researcher occurred in 2006. After that, however, scientists did not recognize the remarkable arachnid as a new species […]
Flamingo Tongue Snail Facts The descriptive term of Flamingo Tongue Snail serves as the accepted common name for a remarkable variety of sea snail. This marvel of Nature also goes by another name, however. Among researchers, it’s known by the name Cyphoma gibbosum. Regardless of which name one uses, it remains a most fascinating creature. […]
Aporia crataegi Facts Firstly, the remarkably beautiful Aporia crataegi represents a large Lepidoptera. Secondly, scientists place it in the family Pieridae. This beautiful and unique insect is also one of 30 butterfly species in its genus. Further, this species remains by far the most common of those in its genus. It also seems to have […]
Coconut Crab Facts This astounding marvel of Nature and evolution most frequently goes by the informative common name of the Coconut Crab. It does have a few other, less often used titles, though. These include such intrigung terms as palm thief and robber crab. Within the scientific community, however, many individuals know it better by […]
Cuckoo Bee Facts Perhaps most notably, the term Cuckoo Bee serves as the name collectively used to refer to any of large variety of bees. More specifically, though, the somewhat interesting term refers to those bee species that have developed a highly fascinating pattern. That pattern is the astonishing practice of actually laying their eggs […]
Source: http://bit.ly/2GEsEnx Photographer: Juan Emilio CC License: http://bit.ly/2xLZ0ap Devils Flower Mantis Facts Firstly, the amazing Devil’s Flower Mantis remains one of the largest of all the roughly 2,400 known praying mantis varieties. Also, of those mantises that mimic flowers, this rather impressive species actually represents the largest known. In addition, the remarkable and relatively large insect is the […]
Bullet Ant Facts The Bullet Ant forms a rather remarkable species of fairly large ant, commonly popular as the lesser giant hunting ant or conga ant. Further, its name, unfortunately, derives from reports concerning its rather powerful and quite potent sting. Interestingly, among the local inhabitants of its native range, the insect’s name also remains […]
