Imagine an animal that seems to be assembled from various other creatures: it has large eyes, the round body of a rabbit, a ...

The Torah, in Parshas Shemini identifies the two signs of a Kosher animal; מעלה גרה - it must chew its cud and מפרסת פרסה - have split hooves. It then identifies four animals that ...

In case of abuse, Leviticus 11 gives us lists and characteristics of kosher animals – mammals, birds, fish and insects. Mammals must be ruminants with split hooves. Why? The answer is pretty ...

Their specially adapted split hooves help them traverse the steep ... but they then split into smaller groups of around 15 to 30 animals in the winter months. Herds are largely female; males ...

These weird-looking stocky mammals roam Alpine zones and forested valleys in Asia, using their specially adapted split hooves help them traverse the steep, rocky terrain. This frilly slug lives in ...

[Related: Why animals run faster than their robot doppelgängers ... This is due to the ability of split-hooves to both spread out and contract during each footfall. Each toe’s exposed ...