The Migration of Monarch Butterflies
The Migration of Monarch Butterflies is the world rarest phenomenon. The Mexican mountain where orange, black Monarch butterflies gather in countless numbers. They cover 10 ACRES after a 3,400-mile journey from the U.S. where...
A Weird Dinobat Discovered in China
A strange new dinosaur (Dinobat) with bat-like wings has been discovered by a farmer in China. It is now helping to shed new light on the evolution of flight. Paleontologists in China say the...
The Bumblebees – A Social Insects with a Single Queen
Most people do not realize that there were no honey bees in America when European settlers brought hives from Europe. These resourceful animals promptly managed to escape from domestication. Even in today’s vastly altered...
Myotonic Goat – The Fainting Goats in Tennessee
Sometimes animal behavior surprises you. The Myotonic Goat which faint temporarily seizes when feels panic. This goat is also known as wooden-leg goat, falling goat, fainting goat, stiff-legged goat, and nervous goat. Humans get...
Destroying Bees and Wasps
Bees and wasps are two of the insects most beneficial to human beings. Normally bees produce honey and wax and serve as imperative pollinators. However, wasps attack and destroy numerously kinds of harmful insects...
Butterfly Classification – How are They Named?
Most Butterfly Classification has an English name and all have a Latin one. Their scientific label is derived from the “Binomial” system which was first used by Carl Linnaeus (Properly written Carl Von Linne). ...
The Amazing Northern Flying Squirrel
The Northern Flying Squirrel “Glaucomys sabrinus yukonensis” is a gliding “volplaning” mammal that is unable to true flight like birds and bats. There are around 25 subspecies across North America with Interior Alaska being the...
Nudibranch – Beautiful Jelly Bodied Sea Creature
The bottom-dwelling, jelly-bodied Nudibranch might look an unlikely canvas for Mother Nature to express her wildest indulgences of color and form. But these shell-less mollusks, part of the sea slug family, bear some of...
The Oriental Rat Snake
The Oriental Rat Snake (Ptyas mucosa) is a medium-sized, active, diurnal snake associated with open habitats including agricultural systems; much of the diet consists of amphibians and commensal rodents. The species has a wide...
Marine Iguanas – The Most Disgusting Clumsy Lizards
The much-maligned marine iguanas of the Galápagos Islands are so famously homely, can be describing as "hideous-looking" and "most disgusting, clumsy lizards." In fact the iguanas are not pretty with they're wide set eyes,...
Amazing Spider Webs Creates 25 feet in Height
Well, their’s a species of spider that grows and habitually live in colonies and formed spiders webs that can reach amazingly 25 feet in height. The spider name is Social Spider also called Anelosimus...
Jonathan – The World’s Oldest Tortoise
The world's oldest living tortoise is starting over with a clean sheet at 184 years old and enjoy his first ever bath. The tortoise named Jonathan has come out of his shell after centuries...
Blue-ringed Octopus – World’s Most Venomous Marine Animals
Blue-ringed Octopus Species
There are about at least ten species of the tiny blue-ringed octopus, which ironically for their size, are the deadliest of all cephalopods, but only four have been formally named. All these...
Pudu – The Smallest Deer in the World
The Pudu is the Smallest Deer in the world, similar in appearance to the northern Pudu (Pudu Mephistopheles), but a little smaller. However, the southern Pudu (pudu puda) has a small glossy reddish-brown to...
What Makes Owls So Wonderful
As creatures of the night, owls can seem mysterious and kind of spooky. Some people think of them as bad omens harbingers of death, but they can also be symbols of knowledge and wisdom....
The Eastern Newt (Notophthalmus viridescens)
Notophthalmus, the genus comprising the eastern newts, inhabits eastern North America. A different genus, Taricha, comprises the western newts along the Pacific coast of North America. Unlike other salamanders, the skin of newts is...
Raccoon (raccoons, coatis, ringtails)
Procyonids are medium-sized omnivores that range throughout much of North America. Raccoons, coatis, and ringtails feed on insects, small mammals, birds, lizards, and fruits. Ringtails are much smaller and slenderer than raccoons and consume...
The Beautiful Red Fox (Foxes and Coyotes)
Red Fox Facts
Unlike the more social wolves, foxes and coyotes tend to hunt alone, although coyotes may hunt larger prey in pairs. Foxes and coyotes are primarily carnivorous, preying predominantly on small mammals.
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The Bullfrog (true frog family)
There are typical frogs with adults being truly amphibious. They tend to live at the edge of water bodies and enter the water to catch prey, flee danger, and spawn. The bullfrog's (Rana catesbeiana)...
The Short Tailed Shrew (shrews)
Most species are primarily vermivorous and insectivorous, but some also eat small birds and mammals. The northern short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda) ranges throughout the north-central and northeastern United States and into southern Canada.
Short Tailed Shrew...