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Featured Creature: Leafcutter Bee

What creature carves out little pieces of tree leaves to build its nest inside hollow stems? The Leafcutter Bee!
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Featured Creature: Markhor

What animal is the largest of the wild goat species, whose name means “snake eater” in Persian, and is the national animal of Pakistan?
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Featured Creature: Rotifers

I’m smaller than dust, yet ancient and wise, I thrive in the harshest of lows and highest of highs. No mate, no death, no fear of the cold, I borrow new genes when my own get too old.
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Featured Creature: Axolotl

What animal was named after an Aztec god, maintains a youthful appearance for its entire life, and can regrow limbs, organs, and even parts of its central nervous system without scarring?
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Private: Featured Creature: Earthworms

As I wiggle through dirt I don’t make a sound, But I help all the plants grow out of the ground. Who am I?
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Featured Creature: Giraffes

What animal, despite having the same number of vertebrae, has a neck longer than the average human, has spot patterns as unique between individuals as our fingerprints, and despite their gentle appearance, can kill lions with a karate-style kick!?
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Featured Creature: Mexican Wolf

I prowl the woods, both fierce and lean, With golden eyes and coat unseen. Once a ghost upon the land, Now brought back by careful hand. Who am I, wild and free, Yet bound by fate and history?
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Featured Creature: Macrotermes Termites

What is the second most consumed insect group in the world (by humans) that can build nests with heights up to 9 meters (29.5 feet) and has a symbiotic relationship with fungi?
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Featured Creature: Seahorse

What animal swims upright and is one of the few where males carry the pregnancy?
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Featured Creature: Penguins

What creature is able to control blood flow to their extremities, has eyes adapted for underwater vision, and spends 75% of its life at sea?
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Featured Creature: Whale Shark

What creature is the largest of its kind, sports beautiful patterns, and holds a reputation for being a ‘gentle giant’?  The whale shark!
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Featured Creature: Luna Moths

What nocturnal creatures native to North America are known for their beauty and the fact that they don't eat at all in their adult life?  Luna moths!
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Featured Creature: Pika

What creature is mall and round  and with a shrill sound  it nests in the ground,  where it hopes not to be found?
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Featured Creature: Fishing Cat

What fascinating feline with unique adaptations roams the aquatic ecosystems of Southeast Asia? The fishing cat!
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Featured Creature: Humpback Whale

What species of tremendous size and grace undertakes the largest mammal migration on Earth? The humpback whale!
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Featured Creature: Banded Sea Krait

What semiaquatic creature has a paddle-like tail, swims through crevices, and can even climb trees? The banded sea krait!
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Featured Creature: Zombie Ant Fungus

What creature preys on ants and other insects, invading their bodies, seizing control of their minds, and killing them off to reproduce, all the while inspiring zombie stories that terrify us humans? Welcome to Zombie Ant Fungus, or Ophiocordyceps Unilateralis!
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Featured Creature: Lichen

Which creature is a combination of two other organisms, comes in bright colors, and helps us measure air quality? Lichen!
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Featured Creature: Wasps

Which creature is a master of architecture, contributes to human food sources, and has a mutually beneficial relationship with numerous plant species?
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Featured Creature: Flamingo

What long-legged creatures are known for their beauty, social habits, and fabulous flamboyance? Flamingos!
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Featured Creature: Aardvark

What unique animal could be a cross between a rabbit, a pig, an opossum, and an anteater? The aardvark!
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Featured Creature: Blue Whale

Which creature who helps fight climate change has newborns the size of an adult elephant and is not a fan of boats? The Blue Whale!
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Featured Creature: Slow Loris

What creature has large eyes, dexterous feet, and is the only venomous primate known to exist?? The slow loris (Nycticebus)!
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Featured Creature: Cicada

What insect spends years hidden underground, preparing for a brief but spectacular emergence into the sunlight, filling the air with the deafening, iconic song of summer?
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Featured Creature: Pando

What is the heaviest, oldest and one of the largest creatures on the planet?
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Featured Creature: Sloth

What creature used to live on the ground but now hangs in trees, has hair that grows in the opposite direction than most mammals, and turns green because of the algae that thrives in their fur?
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Featured Creature: Poison Dart Frog

What creature the size of a paperclip is lethal enough to kill ten grown men? The poison dart frog! What makes the poison dart frog so powerful? Poison dart frogs – so named because the Indigenous Emberá people of Colombia traditionally used the venom in blow darts – are some of the most toxic creatures…
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Featured Creature: Giant Barrel Sponge

What creature grows tall and sturdy, cleans up its neighborhood, and defends itself from predators - all without moving a muscle? The Giant Barrel Sponge, or Xestospongia muta!
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Featured Creature: Beaver

Which creature fights fires, creates wetlands, recharges groundwater, alters landscapes, and is a climate hero? Beavers!
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Featured Creature: Gila Monster

What creature has a venomous bite and is uniquely adapted to survive harsh desert terrain? The Gila monster!
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Featured Creature: Moon Snail

What seemingly cute, small creature is, in fact, a terrifying killer that drills a hole into their prey, liquidizes them, and then sucks them out like a smoothie?
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Featured Creature: Asian Giant Hornet

What creature comes from Southeast Asia, is the biggest of its kind, eats animals we need, and  has been tried and convicted of murder in the court of public opinion? Meet the Asian Giant Hornet!
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Featured Creature: Pacific Salmon

What creatures navigate oceans, climb mountains, feed forests, and motivate us to destroy renewable energy infrastructure?
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Featured Creature: European Hamster

Which keystone species creates intricate burrows, is aggressive towards its own kind, and hibernates from October to May?  The European Hamster! Did you know that there are multiple species of hamster in the wild? I didn’t know this until recently, when I stumbled upon a BBC Earth video of a European Hamster foraging for food…
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Featured Creature: Black Drongo

What small but fearless songbird can astonish with its aerial acrobatics and is always ready to battle much bigger birds for dominance? The Black Drongo!
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Featured Creature: Crow

What common bird possesses an uncommon intelligence, including diversified communication, excellent memory, and a talent for mathematics?  The crow!
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Featured Creature: Slime Mold

What brainless creature can learn, problem solve, and even hold down a job?  The slime mold!
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Featured Creature: Ladybug

What tiny creature brings luck to farmers and other folks all over the globe? The ladybug!  One Lucky Lady Ladybugs, or beetles of the family Coccinellidae, are small, often colorful rounded insects beloved by children’s rhymes and gardeners alike.  Ladybugs are thought to be a sign of luck in many cultures and urban myths. Whether it’s…
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Featured Creature: Clamworm

What sort of worm is festooned with sensitive tentacles all the way down its sides and – though it can’t bark – has a nasty bite? That would be the “clam worm” or alitta succinea, a denizen of estuarial waters. Alternative names I’ve always called them “seaworms” but they are normally known as “clam worms,” “ragworms,”…
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Featured Creature: Nilgai

Which creature is the largest Asian antelope, considered sacred to some and pest to others? The Nilgai!
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Featured Creature: Prairie Dog

Have you ever heard of a squirrel that barks?
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Featured Creature: Canada Lynx

What furry feline has stealthy skills, built-in snow gear, and a surprising screech?  The Canada lynx!
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Featured Creature: Groundhog

What cute creature is an underground architect and an amateur meteorologist? The Groundhog!
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Featured Creature: Atlantic Puffin

What striking seabird is a master of adaptability in the ocean and the air? The Atlantic Puffin!
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Featured Creature: Cat

What mammal makes a mysterious sound that scientists can’t figure out, can jump straight up to a height eight times their body length, and loves us when we love them? Felis catus, the mostly tame, sometimes feral, house cat!
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Featured Creature: Bearded Vulture

What handsome creature dyes its feathers and almost exclusively eats bones? The bearded vulture!
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Featured Creature: Chevrotain

What creature is the world’s smallest ungulate? The chevrotain!
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Featured Creature: Coelacanth

What 200-pound nocturnal sea creature, thought to have gone extinct millions of years ago, was resurrected in 1938? 
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Featured Creature: Eastern Emerald Elysia

What creature steals photosynthesis, can go a year without eating, and blurs the animal-plant boundary?  The Eastern Emerald Elysia!
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Featured Creature: Kingfisher

What creature often looks blue, but isn’t, is found on every continent but Antarctica, and inspired a train’s design?
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Work with Us

Work with Us There are exciting and rewarding job, internship and volunteer opportunities at Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (Bio4Climate), a nonprofit based in the Boston, Massachusetts area. Our mission is to promote the restoration of ecosystems to address global warming. Education, public information campaigns, organizing, scientific investigation, collaboration with like-minded organizations, research and policy…

Compendium 5.2: Ecological roles of animals

Animals contribute vitally to Earth’s water, carbon, and nutrient cycles. Every ecosystem is supported by uncountable animal species, ranging from birds to insects and mammals to fish, as well as microscopic organisms. The devastating news is that the Earth is losing about 150 animal, plant and microbial species every day, mostly due to human activities.[8] Understanding…
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Global Youth Ambassadors

Global Youth Ambassadors Introduction The Global Youth Ambassador program connects young people around the world to regeneration resources and powerful networks. We create a platform for more robust projects that benefit people and the Earth, fostering a generation of dynamic leaders ready to make a significant difference. Who is this program for? If you’re passionate…

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