This cat is not a cat
At first glance, the fossa looks like some sort of cat. Its facial features, long tail, and paws seem unmistakably feline. For some time after its discovery, researchers believed that the fossa was a primitive […]
At first glance, the fossa looks like some sort of cat. Its facial features, long tail, and paws seem unmistakably feline. For some time after its discovery, researchers believed that the fossa was a primitive […]
Leptodactylus pentadactylus, also called the Smokey Jungle Frog, is a very large species of frog that lives in South America. They can grow 7 inches in length, which is huge for a frog! These frogs are […]
Most people are familiar with the seahorse, which itself is a very strange creature. Even stranger is its relative, the pipefish. Their faces look similar to those of seahorses, but they have long, thin bodies […]
The Habelia optata is an ancient, 508-million year old marine predator. This strange creature was discovered over a century ago and has confused scientists ever since. The now-extinct animal belongs to the arthropod family, which […]
How Big is the Sun? The sun has a volume of 1.4×10^27 cubic meters. That number doesn’t really look big, but if you wrote it down it would look like this: 1,400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 The sun has […]
Aye-Ayes are tiny animals that only live on the island of Madagascar. They are very strange looking creatures that look like they could be part of many different animal families, but are most closely related […]
The Markia hystrix is a species of insect that can be found in South America, and is a member of the Tettigoniidae family. Members of this family are often called Katydids. Like most animals in their family, these […]
Heterochromia Iridis is a rare disease where the eyes are different colors. The most common cause is having unequal amounts of melanin. Melanin is a pigment which causes the color of your hair and eyes. […]
Isaac Newton’s famous three laws of motion starts with the first law, which is “an object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion.” This means that if you roll […]
The Japanese Dwarf Flying squirrel is possibly one of the cutest animals ever! These adorable little guys look like they came straight out of a storybook. They live in Japan on the Honshu and Kyushu […]
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