Wood turtles are native to North America. They can be found from Nova Scotia to Virginia. In the past, they…
Hippos begin their lives underwater. After a gestation period of eight months, the mother hippo gives birth to usually one…
American mastodons were some of the largest mammals in North America when they lived from five million years ago to…
Haast’s eagle was the largest eagle to have ever lived. They lived in New Zealand until about 1400 when the…
The American cave lion (Panthera atrox) lived in North America, from Alaska to Mexico, in the last Pleistocene and early…
The Bornean elephant, or pygmy elephant, can be found in Borneo and Sumatra. They are the smallest Asian elephant subspecies,…
Leafy sea dragons can be found in the wild off the coast of Southern and Western Australia. They live in…
Over the past few weeks, we’ve taken a look at striped hyenas, brown hyenas, and aardwolves. We’re going to finish…
The aardwolf is a small and thin hyena that lives in the grasslands and scrublands of Eastern and Southern Africa.…
The brown hyena is the rarest species of hyena in the world. They live in deserts, scrublands, and semi-deserts in…