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 The Amazon holds roughly one in ten of all known species on Earth, and a surprising share of them fit in your hand. This list covers 12…
TLDR Siberian ibexes are herbivores. In spring and summer they graze alpine grasses, sedges, and herbs. In winter they switch to twigs, needles, and tall dry herbs, and paw through…
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…
Two volcanic islands in the Gulf of Guinea have more animals found nowhere else than most countries ten times their size. The animals of São Tomé and Príncipe include some…
TLDR Table of Contents Why Barbados has so few amphibians Most Caribbean islands have a respectable frog list. Barbados has two. Neighbors like Dominica or Trinidad have many more. The…
Table of Contents TLDR Nyalas are herbivores and mixed feeders: they browse and they graze. Most of what they eat is leaves, but the menu also includes fruits, seed pods,…
The biggest fish in the world is the whale shark, and it isn’t close. A fully grown whale shark can stretch past 40 feet and tip the scales at more…
Ask a biologist how many amphibian species are truly blue and you’ll get a shrug, not a number. Blue is one of the rarest colors in the animal kingdom to…