What’s usually purple, but sometimes pink,
and in the summer you might want it in a drink?
Creature: Endangered Species
Creatures at risk of extinction due to habitat loss, hunting, or other environmental pressures.
Featured Creature: Kingfisher
What creature often looks blue, but isn’t, is found on every continent but Antarctica, and inspired a train’s design?
Featured Creature: Strangler Fig
What creature grows backwards and can swallow a tree whole?
Featured Creature: ‘Ōhi’a Lehua
What tree has adapted to grow directly in lava rock and is a keystone species of the Hawaiian watershed?
Featured Creature: Slow Loris
What creature has large eyes, dexterous feet, and is the only venomous primate known to exist??
The slow loris (Nycticebus)!
Featured Creature: Iberian Hare
What athletic creature can reach speeds of 45mph and cool itself down with large ears – all in a 2.5 kg frame?
The Iberian hare (Lepus granatensis)!
Featured Creature: Coelacanth
What 200-pound nocturnal sea creature, thought to have gone extinct millions of years ago, was resurrected in 1938?
Featured Creature: Chevrotain
What creature is the world’s smallest ungulate?
The chevrotain!
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!
Featured Creature: Atlantic Puffin
What striking seabird is a master of adaptability in the ocean and the air?
The Atlantic Puffin!
Featured Creature: Humpback Whale
What species of tremendous size and grace undertakes the largest mammal migration on Earth?
The humpback whale!
Featured Creature: Canada Lynx
What furry feline has stealthy skills, built-in snow gear, and a surprising screech?
The Canada lynx!
Featured Creature: Fishing Cat
What fascinating feline with unique adaptations roams the aquatic ecosystems of Southeast Asia?
The fishing cat!
Featured Creature: American Chestnut
What tree, the “Redwood of the East,” once dominated the forests of the Eastern United States, and the cultural landscape as well?
The American Chestnut!
Featured Creature: Nilgai
Which creature is the largest Asian antelope, considered sacred to some and pest to others?
The Nilgai!
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!
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!
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…
Featured Creature: Atlas Moth
What creature has no mouth, is known for colorful patterns, and is famous for mimicking a deadly predator?
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…