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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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