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…
Morocco has roughly 7,000 plant species, and more than 900 of them grow nowhere else on Earth. That’s a lot of botany for a country you can cross in a…
TLDR Libya’s amphibian list is short: the Sahara frog (Pelophylax saharicus) along the northern coast, the African green toad (Bufotes boulengeri) almost everywhere there’s seasonal water, and the subdesert toad…
Table of Contents The Quick Answer The desert bandicoot (Perameles eremiana) ate ants, termites, and beetle larvae, dug up with its long snout and clawed front feet, rounded out with…
Table of Contents Why Isolation Made Chile a Plant Factory Chile is a strip of land 2,650 miles long and, on average, about 110 miles wide, boxed in on every…
Table of Contents A Desert That Blooms on a Schedule Kuwait gets about 110 to 120 millimeters of rain a year, almost all of it between November and March. That’s…
Harris’s antelope squirrel runs across bare desert ground in full midday sun — 100°F+ and no shade in sight — with its tail curled up over its back like a…
Kuwait looks, on a map, like a place where nothing should live. A small wedge of desert at the top of the Persian Gulf, summer temperatures that push past 50°C,…
Blanford’s foxes are omnivores, and their diet leans far more toward bugs and fruit than meat. A typical night’s foraging turns up beetles, grasshoppers, and ants alongside caperberries and dates…