Tthey move with great ease by means of the lateral undulations of their bodies. They can do this because their skeletons are made up of short, broad and floating vertebrae.

Recent studies focusing on the social behaviour of the sheep show that they are much more complex than has been thought.

When the fox digs this lair, it removes the soil and spreads it in all directions around the entrance, thus forming a kind of fan shape.

The dogs referred by Jesus in Matthew 7 were animals that belonged to no one, running wild and untamed, and consuming any waste that they could find, including corpses, which was why they were regarded as unclean.

Scriptures abound in stories in which animals perform important pedagogical functions.

The shark has built-in software to know when to change direction, how to hunt a particular prey, escape a predator, among many other actions.

From a human perspective, questions immediately arise about why there are so many lethal organisms in our world.

The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Animals and Plants of the Bible, by biologist and theologian Antonio Cruz, analyses the over 300 animal and plant species mentioned in Scripture.

Up to now, no one had any idea why only one in a million snails rolled its shell to the left.

If there were no carnivores, herbivore animals would succumb to starvation and many different diseases.

Some birds use deception by pretending that they are sick, or have a broken wing, in order to attract the attention of predators and draw them away from the nest containing their eggs or newly hatched chicks.

Although flies are often very annoying, they are a blessing for the biosphere.

In Israel there are currently seven species of vipers. In the Old Testament there are numerous Hebrew terms that refer to them.

Among the most dangerous snakes for human beings that can still be found in Israel are the following: the black desert cobra, the Palestine viper, the Palestine ladder snake, the horned desert viper.

Certain species of leech are capable of sucking an amount of blood equivalent to ten times their weight.

A US patient recovers well after a seven hour surgery. The procedure involves no modification of human DNA.

The common name “gecko” occurs in some versions of the Bible. It refers to a small saurian with a large head and eyes, and skin which is granular.

After other predators have consumed the soft parts of their prey, the bonebreakers arrive to feast on the skeleton. They are capable of swallowing and digesting 20 cm long pieces of bone.

The land by the sea will become pastures having wells for shepherds and pens for flocks. Zeph. 2:6

During the second century, believers identified themselves to each other by drawing the simple figure of a fish on the ground or on the walls of the catacombs in Rome.

The atmospheric conditions characteristic of the Old Testament period were conducive to the existence of enormous flocks of partridges on the mountains of Judea, on the banks of the Dead Sea and in the Negev desert.

King Solomon’s table comprised fabulous and abundant arrays of delicious food, among which there were fattened ducks.

In the Bible, this vegetation appears as a symbol of human inconsistency, as the wicked are described as “straw which the wind drives away”.

‘My Octopus Teacher’ has won the Oscar for best documentary feature film. What can the relationship between a diver and a common octopus show us about God’s grace?

The Bible refers to the sheep as a docile and affectionate animal; which knows the voice of its shepherd; gentle and silent; unable to survive on their own, which is why they have to be guided by the shepherd.