Contents Invasive species are the single biggest threat to Hawaii’s endangered plants and animals, ahead of development and ahead of climate change. According to the IUCN’s Global Invasive Species Database,…
Belize packs more wildlife into a country the size of Massachusetts than most places manage with ten times the land. It has more than 125 mammal species (over 80 of…
Table of Contents TLDR How many reptiles live in Iran? The answer is about 241 species, according to the Annotated Checklist of Amphibians and Reptiles of Iran, the most cited…
Italy’s native animals are the species that reached the peninsula on their own, or evolved there, before people started moving wildlife around. That’s a shorter list than most “animals of…
Table of Contents TLDR Why Kiribati’s wildlife is mostly birds and sea life Kiribati is 33 coral atolls and reef islands scattered across about 3.5 million square kilometers of Pacific…
TLDR Pantropical spotted dolphins eat mostly small fish and squid that live in the deep scattering layer, a band of ocean life that rises toward the surface after dark. Lanternfish…
TLDR Table of contents How many amphibians live in Ethiopia? The answer depends on who you ask. Popular sources such as WorldAtlas list 54 species. The most recent academic review,…
Most lists of rare white animals throw polar bears, albino snakes and snow-dusted foxes into one pile. They aren’t the same thing. A polar bear is white because of how…
White fish is a culinary category, not a scientific one. It covers lean fish with pale, mild flesh that store their oil in the liver rather than in the muscle….