The smallest well-known blue animal is the steelblue ladybird, a beetle about 4 mm (0.16 in) long. Everything else on this list is bigger, and a lot of the “blue”…
TLDR Table of contents Do invasive species exist in Nunavut? Not on land, as far as anyone has confirmed. In the water, possibly one. That’s the short answer, and it’s…
Contents TLDR The Blainville’s beaked whale diet is mostly deep-water squid, with some fish and a few crustaceans. Nobody has filmed one feeding. What we know comes from the stomachs…
TLDR Most eight-legged animals are arachnids: spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, harvestmen, camel spiders, vinegaroons and pseudoscorpions. Two outsiders also have eight legs and aren’t arachnids at all: sea spiders and…
Fireflies don’t leave your yard because they’re picky. They leave because the lights stay on, the leaf litter gets bagged, and something gets sprayed on the lawn every few weeks….
White is a bad predictor of danger. Plenty of the animals on this list are white because they live on snow, and a few are only white in places. Others…
Contents TLDR No insect has four legs. Every adult insect has six, in three pairs. But several walk or stand on only four, because the other two have a different…
Contents Nearly a third of the plant species growing in Acadia aren’t from here. That is the headline fact about invasive species in Acadia National Park, and it surprises people…
Quick Answer Gray’s beaked whales (Mesoplodon grayi) eat mostly deep-sea squid and fish, sucking them in at depth rather than biting them. Stomach contents from stranded animals have confirmed a…