So I'm in Hawaii, right now. There is flora and fauna that I've never seen anywhere else everywhere. Oh, and I've also caught a...

You've all heard something like this before: "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck." If something...

This picture is MINE...but was done with Field Museum equipment, and is for their use.   Now for something I actually did: This is t...

 So let's start a new yearly tradition: Find our favorite new species discovered this past year. There were a lot of cool things, inclu...

Well, it turns out I won't be getting a job this season because I won't be able to work Black Friday. There's always Christmas,...

There are a number of advantages to visiting places that naturally have cool wild animals. One, you get to see wild animals in their natura...

Oh! A Creature Feature! It's been a while, hasn't it? Let's look at the weirdest parrot you've eeeeveer seen: This lo...

Some things in life are just funny.  For example, Lake Titicaca? That just sounds dirty. We know it's a Quecha word, but it sounds sexy...

It's about time I got back into the swing of things. That means more cool creatures, hopefully with another 6-day week of entries at a ...

Hey, come to think of it, we've never looked at domestic geese on this blog. This is my fault entirely; there simply hasn't been a ...

Some readers are bound to ask: what's the deal with the URL of this blog? Originally, it was intended to push the boundaries of fantasy...

Aww, wolves! The internet either loves or hates wolves, now.  If you love wolves, you're in good company; people will gladly roleplay w...

As the previous entry hinted, low temperatures means relatively poor biodiversity. This makes a good portion of North America a wasteland c...

Despite the strange subconscious connection between dragons and snakes, there is a very strong idea that dragons were either the last few r...

Most pet-owners in the world are either cat people or dog people. Me, I'm a cat person, and there are some really fascinating cats out ...

So, wait a tic. Is hakarl made of basking shark or Greenland shark? Actually, this is where the video got something wrong: basking sharks a...

Want an animal that could still be around 10,000 years after humanity? Sharks. Sharks are badasses that ate dinosaurs.  If we haven't d...

Actually, those antelope in the trailer were kind of cool-looking. What were they, anyways? Source: Allposters.com Well, you're...

So, what is a leatherback, anyways? We gathered from the news video that it was an endangered sea turtle. How endangered? Are they really t...

Ah, back to the deepsea abyss. Regardless of how many people treat space as the final frontier, we have yet to truly know our own planet. E...