Reading level: Grade 5-6 You might think all rare and unique animals are discovered in remote places … like rainforests, mountaintops, or deserts. Not in the case of the Romer’s tree frog! This is the story of how this little frog found itself living in…
Learn more about Venus flytraps and how to protect them. Visit the US Fish & Wildlife Service website: https://www.fws.gov/southeast/wildlife/plants/venus-flytrap/ https://www.fws.gov/southeast/articles/buyer-beware-do-not-buy-poached-venus-flytrap-plants/ *Mongabay Kids is not responsible for content published on external sites.
Journey to the Okavango Delta The Okavango Delta is a large freshwater wetland located in northern Botswana. A river delta is where the mouth of a river empties out, often into another body of water such as a lake or ocean. Where rivers empty out,…
We meet Andrew Kittle and Anjali Watson, a team driven to understand and protect Sri Lanka\’s top predator, the graceful leopard.
This is the village of Santa Helena do Inglês: This village lies on the banks of the Negro River in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. It is one of 19 villages in the Negro River Sustainable Development Reserve, a protected rainforest area that is very remote.…
Sofia Ceiba is in southern Tibet to meet a newly discovered giant of the plant world!
John Mitani has studied apes for decades. Learn more about what he finds interesting about our nearest living relatives.
Shrews are some of the smallest mammals on Earth. None of them are bigger than a mouse, and although they resemble mice, they are not rodents. Shrews are insectivores. They spend their lives hunting down insects in underbrush or burrowing for them through the soil. Shrews stay…
What is your favorite mythical creature? Is it a unicorn? The Loch Ness Monster? A drop bear (a meat-eating koala that ambushes its prey from the treetops)? Maybe a mermaid or dragon? In this task, we want you to imagine if your mythical creature were…
There is a cat that looks like Tigger in real life … It is not a tiger though. Meet the clouded leopard.
Príncipe is an island approximately 250 kilometers (155 miles) off the coast of Central Africa. Along with its neighboring island, São Tomé, it has several endemic species, or species found nowhere else on Earth. One of these endemic species is the Príncipe thrush. Until 2010, the…