Polar Bears: Marine Mammals and Swimming Habits
Everything about the polar bear: size, habitat, diet, hunting, reproduction, conservation, and the strange facts that make Ursus maritimus the planet's largest land carnivore.
April 2026
December 2025
In-Depth Look at Polar Bears: Habitat and Facts
Polar bear vs grizzly bear: size, strength, diet, habitat, and the wild pizzly bear hybrids produced as climate change forces their ranges to overlap.
August 2025
King Cobra: The World's Longest Venomous Snake
Everything about the king cobra: size, habitat, venom, snake-eating diet, nesting behaviour, conservation, and the strange facts that make Ophiophagus hannah the world's longest venomous snake.
Komodo Dragon: Behavior and Ecology
Everything about the Komodo dragon: size, habitat, venom, hunting, reproduction, parthenogenesis, cannibalism, and the strange facts that make Varanus komodoensis the largest living lizard on Earth.
Saltwater Crocodile: Features and Adaptations
Everything about the saltwater crocodile: size, habitat, bite force, ocean swims, death roll, reproduction, conservation, and the strange facts that make Crocodylus porosus the largest living reptile.
Great White Shark: Apex Ocean Predator
Everything about the great white shark: size, habitat, diet, hunting, senses, reproduction, conservation, and the strange facts that make Carcharodon carcharias the ocean's largest predatory fish.
Gray Wolf: The Social Structure and Ecology of Canis lupus
Everything about the gray wolf: size, habitat, pack structure, hunting, communication, reproduction, conservation, and the strange facts that make Canis lupus the most widespread wild land mammal after humans.
Lion: Social Dynamics and Facts
Everything about the lion: size, habitat, prides, hunting, reproduction, conservation, and the strange facts that make Panthera leo the only social big cat on Earth.
July 2025
Emperor Dragonfly
Everything about the emperor dragonfly: size, habitat, diet, hunting success rate, vision, flight, larval stage, reproduction, and the strange facts that make Anax imperator one of the most efficient predators on Earth.
Megalodon: The Largest Shark Ever
Everything about the megalodon: size, teeth, bite force, habitat, diet, hunting, nursery grounds, extinction, and the strange facts that made Otodus megalodon the largest predatory shark ever to exist.
Terror Bird: Apex Predator of South America
Everything about the terror bird: size, habitat, hunting, skull anatomy, extinction, and the strange facts that made Phorusrhacidae the apex predator of South America for 60 million years.
Sabertooth Cat: The Famous Ice Age Predator
Everything about the sabertooth cat: size, habitat, diet, hunting, extinction, and the strange facts that make Smilodon fatalis the most famous Ice Age predator of the Americas.
Dunkleosteus: A Marvel of the Devonian Sea
Everything about Dunkleosteus: size, armour, bite force, hunting, evolution, the Late Devonian extinction, and the strange facts that make Dunkleosteus terrelli one of the most formidable predators that ever lived.
Tyrannosaurus rex: The Most Studied Dinosaur
Everything about Tyrannosaurus rex: size, bite force, vision, feathers, growth rate, famous specimens, extinction, and the strange facts that make T. rex the most studied dinosaur ever unearthed.
Bald Eagle
Everything about the bald eagle: size, habitat, diet, hunting, vision, nests, reproduction, conservation, and the strange facts behind America's national bird Haliaeetus leucocephalus.
June 2025
American Alligator: Habitat and Unique Facts
Everything about the American alligator: size, habitat, diet, hunting, reproduction, brumation, temperature-dependent sex, and the strange facts that make Alligator mississippiensis a conservation comeback icon of the southeastern United States.
Scalloped Hammerhead Shark
Everything about the scalloped hammerhead shark: cephalofoil anatomy, 360-degree vertical vision, schooling behaviour, diet, reproduction, conservation, and the strange facts that make Sphyrna lewini one of the most unusual sharks alive.
Orca (Killer Whale): The Ocean's Apex Predator
Everything about the orca: size, ecotypes, diet, hunting, social structure, intelligence, lifespan, conservation, and the strange facts that make Orcinus orca the ocean's apex predator.
May 2025
Mosasaurus: Apex Predator of the Cretaceous
Everything about Mosasaurus: size, habitat, diet, discovery, reproduction, extinction, and the strange facts that made Mosasaurus hoffmannii the apex predator of the late Cretaceous oceans.
Peregrine Falcon: Habitat, Size and Diet
Everything about the peregrine falcon: size, habitat, diet, hunting stoop, urban nesting, subspecies, DDT recovery, and the strange facts that make Falco peregrinus the fastest animal on Earth.
Great Horned Owl: Versatile Nocturnal Hunter
Everything about the great horned owl: size, habitat, diet, silent flight, reproduction, conservation, and the strange facts that make Bubo virginianus the most versatile nocturnal raptor in the Americas.
Green Anaconda: Heaviest Snake & 2024 Species Split
Everything about the green anaconda: size, habitat, hunting, breeding balls, reproduction, conservation, and the strange facts that make Eunectes murinus the heaviest snake on Earth.
April 2025
Perentie: Australia's Largest Lizard Species
Everything about the perentie: size, habitat, diet, tripod stance, venomous bite, Aboriginal cultural significance, and the strange facts that make Varanus giganteus the largest lizard in Australia and the fourth-largest on Earth.
Nile Crocodile: Africa's Apex Predator
Everything about the Nile crocodile: size, habitat, diet, bite force, cooperative hunting, reproduction, conservation, and the strange facts that make Crocodylus niloticus Africa's apex freshwater predator.
Sperm Whale: Anatomy, Hunting and Social Life
Everything about the sperm whale: size, habitat, diet, deep diving, echolocation, reproduction, conservation, and the strange facts that make Physeter macrocephalus the largest toothed predator and deepest diving mammal on Earth.
Tiger Shark: Range, Behaviour and Attacks
Everything about the tiger shark: size, habitat, diet, teeth, migration, reproduction, attacks on humans, conservation, and the strange facts that make Galeocerdo cuvier the ocean's most indiscriminate predator.
Jaguar: Apex Predator
Everything about the jaguar: size, range, diet, hunting, reproduction, melanism, conservation, and the strange facts that make Panthera onca the apex predator of the Americas.
March 2025
Basilosaurus: The Extraordinary Early Whale
Everything about Basilosaurus: size, anatomy, hunting, bite force, vestigial hind legs, discovery, and the strange facts that made Basilosaurus cetoides one of the most extraordinary early whales ever found.
Haast's Eagle: The Largest Known Eagle
Everything about Haast's eagle: size, prey, hunting, evolution, Maori pouakai tradition, and the strange facts that made Hieraaetus moorei the largest eagle ever known and the only raptor confirmed to have preyed on humans.
Cameroceras: The Giant Nautiloid
Everything about Cameroceras: the giant Ordovician nautiloid with a straight conical shell up to six metres long, apex predator of 470-million-year-old seas, its role in end-Ordovician extinction, anatomy, diet, and why it may be the largest mollusc ever.
Anomalocaris: Cambrian Apex Predator
Everything about Anomalocaris canadensis: the 515-million-year-old Cambrian apex predator from the Burgess Shale, misclassified as three separate animals for 99 years, and armed with 16,000-lens compound eyes and a radial-toothed circular mouth.
Harpy Eagle
Everything about the harpy eagle: size, habitat, diet, hunting, reproduction, conservation, and the strange facts that make Harpia harpyja the most powerful raptor in the Americas.
Reticulated Python: The Longest Snake Alive
Everything about the reticulated python: size, habitat, diet, constriction, reproduction, conservation, and the strange facts that make Malayopython reticulatus the longest snake in the world.
January 2025
Eurasian Eagle-Owl: Largest Owl Species
Everything about the Eurasian eagle-owl: size, habitat, diet, hunting, booming call, ear tufts, reintroduction success, and the strange facts that make Bubo bubo the world's largest owl by wingspan.
December 2024
Leopard Seal
Everything about the leopard seal: size, habitat, diet, hunting, vocalisations, the Paul Nicklen encounter, and the strange facts that make Hydrurga leptonyx the apex predator of Antarctic waters after the orca.
Mountain Lion: Habitat and Distribution Facts
Everything about the mountain lion: size, habitat, diet, hunting, reproduction, conservation, and the strange facts that make Puma concolor the most widely distributed wild cat in the Americas.
Bengal Tiger: Size, Habitat, and Facts
Everything about the Bengal tiger: size, habitat, diet, Project Tiger conservation, Sundarbans swimmer tigers, stripe-as-fingerprint identification, and the strange facts that make Panthera tigris tigris India's most iconic wild cat.
Golden Eagle
Everything about the golden eagle: size, habitat, diet, hunting, reproduction, conservation, and the strange facts that make Aquila chrysaetos one of the most widespread and formidable raptors on Earth.