Learn about the discovery of a tiny new frog species in northern Costa Rica.
Meet a hermit crab and a newly described anemone that it carries on its shell.
Scientists have reported that some wild stingrays produce short, loud clicking sounds. Joni Pini-Fitzsimmons is a marine scientist and stingray expert at Macquarie University in Australia. In 2018, Joni received an unusual stingray video from a colleague. It showed a mangrove whipray gliding over a…
Project Taramea trains young Māori divers in the Cook Islands to remove crown-of-thorns starfish that eat corals.
Chimpanzees are the closest living relatives of humans. Like us, chimpanzees use technology. Jane Goodall discovered chimpanzees using twigs to go “fishing” for termites by sticking them in the holes of termite mounds and eating the termites that grab the twig. Chimpanzees may use some plants as medicines…
Old McDonald had a farm – EI-EI-O, and on that farm he had some tropical marine fish. EI-EI-wait, what?
Moth Week 2022 is July 23-31. You can become a moth-er…
A group of scientists from England and Hungary wanted to find proof that tropical birds really are more colorful than their temperate cousins. To do this, they used special imaging technology…
Earth is a fantastic place. There are so many species of plants, animals, and fungi that we know about. And there are so many more left to discover! Meet some newly discovered and described species: a tapir frog that looks like a real chocolate frog…
Rainforests are awesome and essential for the health of humans and our planet. Why? rainforests support a tremendous diversity of plants and animals they help regulate the climate they are a valued home to many people around the world they provide us with resources like…
By Monica Bond, Wild Nature Institute What would it be like to have giraffes, elephants, zebras, cheetahs, and lions hanging out in your ‘backyard?’ Children in the Monduli District of Tanzania live near Tarangire and Lake Manyara National Parks, and both parks are full of…
Kids around the world love giraffes. Now kids in Tanzania who live around wild giraffes and kids in Canada (Ontario and British Columbia), the United States (New York, Washington DC and Washington State), and Ireland are talking with each other about giraffes and about what life…