Walk into any Florida swamp and the first tree you notice is almost always a cypress. It’s also the one most visitors assume is the only tree there. It isn’t….
Ukraine’s native animals don’t live in one place. They sort themselves into five distinct habitats: mountains, forested wetlands, grassland, coast and delta, and the Crimean uplands. Learn the zones and…
Scotland has roughly 1,600 vascular plants, around 1,000 bryophytes (mosses and liverworts) and about 1,500 lichens. That’s a lot of plant life for a country of cold winters and thin…
Contents The scale of the problem Namibia is the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, and that is exactly why invasive species hurt it so much. When water is the limit…
Congaree National Park protects the largest old-growth bottomland hardwood forest left in the United States, roughly 11,000 acres of it. It holds more than 25 champion trees and the tallest…
Wetland omnivores are animals that eat both plants and other animals, and in a marsh or swamp they’re the ones doing the most switching. A sandhill crane digs up tubers…
Haiti has roughly 1,700 kilometers of coastline wrapped around the western third of Hispaniola, and almost none of the writing about its fish is meant for normal people. The top…
Table of Contents Quick answer Portugal has roughly 17 native amphibian species, and the exact tally shifts by one or so depending on how taxonomists split look-alike groups. Seven of…
TLDR: Amazon weasels almost certainly eat small rodents, birds, insects, and amphibians, plus fish or crustaceans pulled from the shallows near riverbanks. Nobody has confirmed this by watching one hunt,…