Continents
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Tapir (Tapirus) – an eclectic animal
Tapirs (Tapirus) – eclectic animals While some people think that tapirs look a bit like pigs with trunks, they are…
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The extinction of African baobabs
Baobabs are dying… The largest and oldest baobabs have been dying out over the past 12 years. Some of them…
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Andrewsarchus – a mysterious giant
Andrewsarchus mongoliensis One of the largest predatory land mammals in the history of the Earth In the mysterious windswept lands…
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Locust anti-collision system
Why don’t the locusts collide? Imagine a small city with some 80 million cars on the road at once. How…
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Mastodon (Mammut americanum)
Mastodons Mastodons were to some extent a combination of features of modern elephants and already extinct mammoths. Covered with long…
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