Fascinating Fauna

Loango National Park

The true jewel of Africa's west coast, 'Africa's Last Eden' is the place where forests, savannas, wetlands, lagoons and ocean all come together.

Imagine this: Walking along a pristine, uninhabited, unspoiled beach, the only sound of the waves crashing upon the shore, when you hear another familiar sound that catches you quite off guard.... »

Natural Wonders, Watery Wonders, Fascinating Fauna | Edited by TrevorShawnElia, Rachel and others

Waco Mammoth Site

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event

In 1978, two men were hunting for arrowheads along the Bosque River in Waco, Texas, and came upon a curiously large bone. When they took it to be examined at the nearby Baylor University, they... »

Fascinating Fauna, Natural History | Edited by allison

Morgan Island

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina

When a wave of B virus swept through the monkey population in Puerto Rico's Caribbean Primate Research Center in 1979, a few hundred rhesus monkeys were shipped to an island off South Carolina's... »

Fascinating Fauna | Edited by atimian

Lambay Island

Wallabies live naturally on this Irish island

Despite being 10,000 miles from their native land of Australia, a group of wallabies has made Lambay Island home for the last 25 years. In the 1980s, Dublin Zoo had a sudden and uncontrollable... »

Anomalous Islands, Fascinating Fauna | Edited by atimian

Brooklyn Comprehensive Night High School, New York, US

Monk Parakeets of Brooklyn College

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests

According to local lore, during the 1960s, a shipment of Argentinian birds was supposed to arrive in New York to be distributed to area pet shops. This never happened. Mysteriously the birds... »

Fascinating Fauna | Edited by HJHausman and atimian

Museo El Fósil

A museum built around a bus-sized fossil on the side of the highway.

When dinosaurs walked - or in this case, swam - the earth, they reigned supreme. Now long dead, their remains lay hidden beneath layers of earth, waiting to be discovered. This one was lucky... »

Fascinating Fauna | Edited by TravelingHat, Dylan and others

Ancon Hill, República de Panamá

A pocket of jungle amidst urban expansion in Panama

You can tell a lot from looking at a map of Ancon Hill and the nearby areas. Surrounded on all sides by Panama City, Ancon Hill is a tiny pocket of jungle wilderness in a rapidly industrializing... »

Extraordinary Flora, Fascinating Fauna | Edited by JBHewlett and atimian

Piusa Sand Caves

Man-made mineral caves house massive bat colony

Just beneath the ground in the Piusa Sand Caves, is a massive group of hibernating bats. Having made their home in the man-made passages since the 1950s, the size of this protected bat house has... »

Fascinating Fauna | Edited by serflac and atimian

Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park and Nature Reserve

Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife

The word tsingy is indigenous to the Malagasy language as a description of the badlands of Madagascar. The word can be translated into English as "where one cannot walk barefoot." The tsingys... »

Natural Wonders, Geological Oddities, Fascinating Fauna | Edited by Deryn, atimian and others

Jatinga Bird Suicide

Small village in India claims the lives of birds each September

Over the last 100 years, thousands of birds have flown to their death over a small strip of land in Jatinga, India. In a town of only 2,500 people, this bizarre Bermuda Triangle of fowl death... »

Fascinating Fauna | Edited by atimian and Dylan