The Arctic is a place where breathing wrong can freeze the inside of your nose, and yet roughly 21,000 species call it home — from microscopic algae locked in sea…
Palau is a string of more than 300 islands scattered across the western Pacific, and that isolation is exactly what makes it so vulnerable. For millions of years, the plants…
Mongoose lemurs are primarily frugivores — fruit is the backbone of their diet — but the full answer is more interesting than that, because what they eat depends heavily on…
Timor-Leste covers a little under 15,000 square kilometers, sits inside the Wallacea biodiversity hotspot, and has never had a comprehensive, species-by-species accounting of what’s eating it from the inside. Most…
Most “British birds” lists are really Scotland-plus-Wales-plus-England all blurred together, and half of them are taxonomic checklists 600 species long. Useful if you’re a county recorder. Useless if a small…
Hoary marmots are strict herbivores, and their diet is almost entirely green: grasses, sedges, and the flowering plants that carpet alpine meadows in summer. If you’ve ever watched one of…
Most “rare animals in Italy” lists hand you the same wolf, the same eagle, and a paragraph that could’ve been written about any European country. They tell you these animals…
More than half of all land animals and plants on Earth live in rainforests, even though these forests cover about 6% of the planet’s land surface. That number gets quoted…
New Brunswick has a flower that grows nowhere else on Earth except a few muddy banks of one river — and it’s almost gone. In 2002, surveyors counted 915 Furbish’s…