By Pritha Dey, expert moth-er 1. Prometopidia joshimathensis This drab-colored Geometrid moth was discovered in a semi-urban forest fragment, in the busy tourist town of Joshimath in the western Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, India. Dr Pritha Dey along with Dr Axel Hausmann and Dr Dieter…
Image: Rhett A. Butler Quiz time! See if you can answer these sea cucumber questions … 1. Who appeared on Earth first, sea cucumbers or dinosaurs? You lose, dinosaurs. The oldest known sea cucumber fossils are about 400 million years old. The first known dinosaur fossils…
Weevil? Hmmm. Yuck, you might be thinking?! Well, how about this little creature? Meet the spectacular Schoenherr’s blue, a shiny, multi-colored weevil found in New Guinea: Udo Schmidt from Deutschland, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons We told you it was a beaut! New…
From across the forests and savannas, mountains, oceans, and skies of the world, welcome to a celebration of the animals that you know and love – it’s the … It’s the largest living bird in the world and it’s perching here now – welcome the…
November 3 is World Jellyfish Day! Take the jelly quiz! 1. Who appeared on Earth first, jellies or dinosaurs? Jellies have been on Earth for at least a half-billion years, and possibly longer. That is WAY longer than dinosaurs were on Earth … and the…
Mongabay Kids is celebrating all things lemur … Why? It’s the World Lemur Festival, leading up to World Lemur Day on October 29th, 2021. We’ve partnered with the Lemur Conservation Network to bring you the latest lemur-themed news and activities. The Lemur Conservation Network is…
From across the forests and savannas, mountains, oceans, and skies of the world, welcome to a celebration of the animals that you know and love – it’s the … It’s the world’s largest land mammal and it packed its trunk just to be here ……
October 18th is World Okapi Day! Okapis are awesome, beautifully patterned rainforest animals. They live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Did you know that they are relatives of the giraffe? Learn more about okapis here, in our series on the Fantastic Unfamous Cousins…
From across the forests and savannas, mountains, oceans, and skies of the world, welcome to a celebration of the animals that you know and love – it’s the … It’s the tallest land mammal in the world. You know it by its spots and long…
What is a squirrel?! What do you think of when you hear the word squirrel? A cute, puff-tailed creature that bounces quietly through the treetops? Or maybe that cheeky critter that raids your family’s bird feeder no matter what obstacles you set up? A squirrel…
By David Brown. Illustrations by Kayla Harren. From Nature’s Giants Magazine, courtesy of the Wild Nature Institute.
Tuataras look like lizards, but they are the last living members of an ancient group of reptiles called sphenodonts. Stewart Nimmo, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Today tuataras live only in New Zealand, but their sphenodont relatives used to live all over the…