Beastlopedia

The naked mole rat is native to parts of East Africa. The naked mole rat is neither a mole nor a rat — it is a rodent. The naked mole rat…

Hydras are simple, fresh-water predatory animals related to sea anemones, jellyfish and coral. They are usually a few millimeters long and…

Kangaroo rats are small rodents native to North America. The name derives from the fact that they hop like tiny kangaroos; however, the two…

What do muskrats, alligators, capybaras, beavers, skunk-headed coots, puffins and the barnacle geese have in common?

Manatees (sometimes called sea cows) are large aquatic mammals, weighing 1,000 to 2,200 lbs (500 to 1000 kg). They are herbivores, and…

There 4,000 different kinds of mammals, over over 8,200 species of reptiles, 10,000 species of birds, 24,600 species of fish, and there are…

No storm petrel had been seen for 170 years; however, on January 25, 2003, close to the Mercury Islands off the Coromandel Peninsula of New…

The boto [boh-toh], also called the Amazon river dolphin or pink river dolphin, is a freshwater dolphin. It is indigenous to the Amazon…

If you are thinking of lemmings you are wrong.