A beautiful and wonderful world

The winged hands, the only mammals, have mastered the art of waving flight. Their front extremities are transformed into wings, elongated bones of fingers, like spokes, support the eardrum stretched between the front and hind legs and tail. The front finger of the wing is free from the membrane and ends with a chain claw used for climbing. In the skeleton of the arm wings, as in birds, there is a keel to which powerful breast muscles are attached. ...THE BEHAVIOR OF THE HAND WINGS... Winged Hand-wings are a very large group of about 1,000 species...

The ferns appeared on our planet at about the same time as the planetary and horsetail-shaped ferns and have experienced their heyday in the past geological epochs. In the Carboniferous period, for example, there were extensive forests of tree fern thickets, only a few of which have survived to this day. Even today, however, the ferns are still numerous, with around 300 genera and more than 10,000 species. FERN SPECIES AND SHAPES Ferns are very widespread and can be found in the temperate zone, and in the tropics, and in the Arctic, they are not present only in very arid areas of the planet...

Mighty and graceful. Sleek and fearless predator. The biggest and strongest cat on the planet is undoubtedly a tiger. An avid Lonely Hunter can rightfully wear the crown of the king of animals. His bright royal mantle is an excellent outfit, a working suit and good protection from heat and cold...

Approximately one-third of all bird species periodically move from wintering grounds to nesting grounds, i.e. make seasonal migrations. As a result, birds can live in areas with pronounced seasonal climate change, where cold, harsh winters replace the summer and have even mastered tundra areas, where they are provided with plenty of food in summer, but most of them cannot live in winter. SEDENTARY AND MIGRATORY BIRDS All birds can be divided into 3 large groups in an effort to change places. Sedentary birds spend all year round near nesting sites...

Doesn't it scare you that there are creatures on the planet that are so insignificant in size, but that stand next to a person in terms of intellectual development? They have a complex system of communications, based on the exchange of chemical elements - pheromones. This interaction helps to find food and carry out the delivery of food to the colony. They overpower a larger victim, kill, nest, and take to the nest due to their ability to lift up the weight 50 times their own! Just imagine: a person...

People have long been watching the tragic death of whales and dolphins on the shore. Aristotle, who was the first to describe the habits and peculiarities of cetaceans more than 2300 years ago, mentioned the sad propensity of whales to kill themselves. In Historia Animalium, Aristotle wrote: "It is not known why they are thrown on land. In any case, it is known that they sometimes do it, and without much apparent reason. Once on the shore, the whale dies slowly and painfully under the weight of its own body...

Panda, so beautiful and attractive, is increasingly used as an emblem of China, causing a sense of affection among foreigners. Indeed, the giant panda has become not only a symbol but also a 'national treasure' of China. Sadly, today pandas are almost non-existent in their natural habitat, without human care. It is one of the most endangered and rare species - less than 2000 in the wild. More precisely, according to the 2014 census, only 1,864 giant pandas remain in the wild. Panda: Everything...

Australia has been an isolated mainland since the mid-Cretaceous period, some 40 million years ago. That's why Australia's animals are amazing: 80-90% of the species in every animal class are endemic, so they are not found anywhere else in the world. The beautiful world has made a selection of interesting Australian animals for you. Make sure they're unique, too. Tasmanian devil or marsupial trait Let's just say that the Tasmanian devil disappeared from the mainland about 600 years ago. Now it is located only on the island of Tasmania, 240 km south of the mainland...

Hundreds of thousands of species of animals of all sizes live on earth, among which there are real giants. And although they are inferior to prehistoric monsters but much larger than the size of animals found everywhere...

The world of insects is mysterious and diverse. Pretty ladybug, annoying fly, harmful mosquito, spider weaving his spider web, hardworking ant, beautiful butterfly known to us since childhood, they became the heroes of children's books and cartoons, we often meet them in everyday life and are not afraid. But in nature, there are also such individuals with whom it is better to get acquainted in absentia. BRAZILIAN TRAVELING SPIDER (PHONEUTRIA) The most poisonous spider on our planet lives in the hottest tropics and subtropics of South and Central America...