In this section of the site, we proved answers to frequently-asked questions on the animal kingdom and other natural history subjects.
Got an animal question of your own? Ask it in the comments section of a related page on the site and we’ll do our best to answer it!
A beetle is an insect. Beetles make up the order Coleoptera, the largest insect group; there are more beetles than any other type of insect. Around 40% of all insects are beetles, and one in four of all known animals is a beetle.
On this page we take a look at what makes a beetle a beetle, find out the characteristics of beetles, and discover some of the many different types of beetles…
Is a spider an insect? On this page we ask ‘Are spiders insects?’ and explain the differences between insects and spiders. We’ll also travel back hundreds of millions of years to the Cambrian Period, when the earliest ancestors of both spiders and insects first appeared…
Is a dolphin a mammal? On this page you’ll find out the answer to this often-asked question! You’ll also learn an interesting fact about dolphins and hippos ...
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