Pygmy Three-Toed Sloth: One of the Rarest Mammals
The endangered pygmy three-toed sloth is limited to a small island, making its survival critical for conservation efforts.
August 2026
July 2026
Sunda Pangolin: The Most Trafficked Mammal
Sunda pangolins are the most trafficked mammals, characterized by their protective scales and unique feeding behaviors.
August 2025
Axolotl: Biology and Unmatched Regeneration
Everything about the axolotl: biology, habitat, regeneration, neoteny, conservation, laboratory research, and the strange facts that make Ambystoma mexicanum the most studied salamander on Earth.
June 2025
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.
Hawksbill Turtle: Endangered Beauty
Everything about the hawksbill sea turtle: size, coral reef habitat, sponge diet, overlapping scutes, reproduction, tortoiseshell trade, conservation, and the strange facts that make Eretmochelys imbricata one of the most endangered sea turtles on Earth.
Staghorn Coral: Traits and Restoration Efforts
Everything about staghorn coral: size, habitat, growth rate, reproduction, White Band Disease, climate bleaching, and the restoration programs trying to save Acropora cervicornis from extinction.
April 2025
Elkhorn Coral: Challenges Faced by a Vital Reef Species
Everything about elkhorn coral: size, habitat, wave-resistant branching, reproduction, White Band Disease, Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease, the 2023 Florida heatwave, and the restoration programs trying to save Acropora palmata from extinction.
Orangutan: The World's Largest Tree-Dwelling Mammal
Everything about the orangutan: the three species, size, rainforest habitat, tool use, solitary life, reproduction, conservation, and the strange facts that make Pongo the planet's largest arboreal mammal.
African Forest Elephant
Everything about the African forest elephant: taxonomy, rainforest habitat, straight tusks, slow reproduction, keystone seed dispersal, and why Loxodonta cyclotis is now Critically Endangered.
March 2025
Kakapo: The World’s Rarest Parrot
Everything about the kakapo: size, habitat, lek breeding, booming calls, diet, conservation, and the strange facts that make Strigops habroptila the world's only flightless parrot and one of the rarest birds on Earth.
Chinese Giant Salamander: Largest Amphibian
Everything about the Chinese giant salamander: the largest amphibian on Earth, its infant-like cries, 170-million-year lineage, cutaneous respiration, farmed hybrid crisis, and the 2018 discovery that it is actually at least five cryptic species - most already lost from the wild.
February 2025
Gharial: Unique Adaptations and Habits
Everything about the gharial: size, habitat, the bulbous ghara nose, 110+ needle teeth, belly-slide locomotion, reproduction, conservation, and the strange facts that make Gavialis gangeticus the most specialised crocodilian alive.
Pillar Coral: Key Facts and Conservation
Everything about the pillar coral: spire-shaped colonies, daytime polyps, Caribbean range, SCTLD devastation, rescue breeding, and why Dendrogyra cylindrus sits on the brink of functional extinction.