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Brown creeper (Certhia americana) birds are the only tree creepers that can be found in North America. These birds are tiny in size and have beautiful mottled feathers which help them stay camouflaged. The habitat of these birds is the forests. They live on loosened tree barks on which they forage and make nests. These birds live throughout North America. Though, the birds that live in the northern parts migrate to the south in the winter and migrate back to the northern parts again in the summer....

Bushbabies are among the cutest primates living in the forests of Africa. They are often found hanging from the trees, and due to their similarity of appearance and nature with monkeys, they are known as ’night monkeys’. But why night monkeys you ask? Well, these primates hunt during the night, hence the name.They are quite good-looking animals with long ears, brown, yellowish to reddish-brown or gray-colored soft, wooly fur, along with large eyes, long hind legs, and long tails....

A Chihuahua Corgi mix is a designer cross breed of a corgi and a chihuahua and is also called a ‘chigi’. The chigi is a toy-sized dog breed with a very lively personality. Like their parent breeds Pembroke Welsh Corgi and Chihuahua, they are fun, loving and loyal to humans. They can best be described as alert and affectionate. It is important to make chigis undergo early socialization because of their herding tendencies inherited from one of their parents, corgi....

The green dragontail butterfly (Lamproptera meges) is an elusive species of butterfly that belongs to the family of swallowtail butterflies and is generally found in the vegetative parts of Asia such as north India and north-east India. These butterflies are also found in the Australian country cum continent. Generally speaking, there are two types of dragontail butterflies which are the white dragontail butterfly (Lamproptera curius) and the green dragontail butterfly (Lamproptera meges)....

Drill monkeys (Mandrillus leucophaeus) are Old World monkeys in the same family of primates as baboons, and langurs. These short tailed primates are cousins of the fun colorful mandrill and are one of the largest monkeys in the world. Their range is very small in dense forests of Western Africa, north of the Sanaga river in Cameroon and Nigeria. They also live on Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea. The largest concentration of their population is in Korup National Park in Cameroon....

The dwarf cassowary (Casuarius bennetti) is a species of cassowary found on the island of New Guinea. Dwarf cassowaries are the smallest of the three species associated with Cassowaries. The three species of the cassowary are - the northern cassowary, the southern cassowary, and the dwarf cassowary. Southern cassowary, also known by the names double-wattled cassowary, Australian cassowary, and the two-wattled cassowary, is the most common species of cassowary found in the world....

Etruscan shrews are small mole-like creatures that are one of the most voracious animals known that devour a great deal of food. It is characterized by having a faster metabolism which in turn gives the shrew ability to eat about twice its own body weight per day.There is so much more that you should know about this tiny animal, so why don’t you scroll down a bit more to find out!...

Ichthyovenator is a genus of fish-eating dinosaurs that lived during the Early Cretaceous period. This genus is represented by a single species, I. laosensis, which is also the type species. It is the most well-known spinosaurid found in Asia due to the discovery of its partial skeleton in the Grès supérieurs Formation in Laos in 2010. It was later named and described by the paleontologists Ronan Allain,‭ ‬Tiengkham Xeisanavong,‭ ‬Philippe Richir,‭ and ‬Bounsou Khentavong in 2012....

Being a native of the country of Ireland, the Irish Water Spaniel’s history is intriguing. Although predecessors of this dog have been around for centuries, it is Justin McCarthy who is credited with the breeding of this modern dog. The dog Boatswain belonging to Justin McCarthy is thought to be the sire of the modern breed. This dog breed soon gained popularity in the United Kingdom before making its way to the United States of America....

The kiwi, belonging to the genus Apteryx, is any of the five species of flightless birds native to New Zealand. In Latin, the term ‘Apteryx’ means ‘wingless,’ and hence the name. In the Māori language, kiwi refers to the shrill call of the male kiwi birds.Kiwis are grayish or brownish in color and are one of the smallest extant ratites (large, flightless, long-legged birds), the others of the group being emus, ostriches, cassowaries, and rheas)....

Museums such as the staircase Escalante national monument in North America are home to several dinosaurs that lived millions of years ago and are a part of our natural history. One such dinosaur is the horned face Kosmoceratops which lived around 76 million years ago in western North America during the late Cretaceous period. The species is one of the unique species of dinosaurs as it had horns. Specimens are generally found in southern Utah....

A Lahore pigeon is a fancy breed that is raised mainly to be kept as a domestic pet. It is also a popular show bird. This breed is commonly found in Pakistan and Iran. The Lahore pigeon was introduced to Germany in 1880, becoming popular worldwide around 1960.Lahore pigeon is a descendent breed of rock dove or rock pigeon and therefore there are a lot of similarities between these two birds....

This duck-billed Lambeosaurus dinosaur belongs to the phylum Chordata, class Archosauria, genus Lambeosaurus, order Ornithischia, suborder Ornithopoda, infraorder Iguanodontia, and superfamily Hadrosauroidea. On top of their skull, they have a distinctive hatchet-shaped hollow bony crest and had blunt teeth. With respect to their diet, they were herbivores and they lived in the Late Cretaceous period in history which was about 99-65 million years ago. Their fossils or remains were first found in North America and this dinosaur was discovered by Oldman Formation in 1914, in Alberta, Canada....

One of the largest species of bat, the large flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus), is known by several different names such as the Malaysian flying fox, Malayan flying fox, large fruit bat, greater flying fox, kalang, or kalong. Unlike most species of bats, the large flying fox primarily feeds on fruits, flowers, nectar, and leaves.The average body length of the species is around 11–13 in (27–32 cm) but the bat weighs between 1....

More than 700 Extinct archosaurs are within the clade Dinosauria which highlight the early evolution of dinosaurs. While dinosaurs lived between 230-35 million years ago, birds are speculated to share a common ancestor with non-avian dinosaurs. A Liaoceratops is yet another dinosaur from the clade Dinosauria, order Ornithischia, suborder Ceratopsia, and infraorder Neoceratopsia with type species Liaoceratops yanzigouensis. The ceratopsian dinosaur was discovered in the famous Liaoning province in China, living in the Early Cretaceous....

The markhor (Capra falconeri) is a species of large mountain goat mostly native to central Asia. They are distinctively known for their beautiful majestic cork-screw-shaped horns. They are the largest goat species to exist. Markhors are active in the early morning and late afternoon making them diurnal (active during daytime). They are also sexually dimorphic (males and females have distinguishing appearance and characteristics), but they reach sexual maturity at 18-30 months, where females mature much faster....

The megrim, or the Cornish sole, is a left-eyed flatfish from the Scophthalmidaw family. The word megrim in a noun in the dictionary means depression, low spirits, whim, or fancy, and the plural of megrim is megrims. There is not a lot known about the origin of this word.The megrim fish is commonly found in the northeast Atlantic in the range of 330-2,300 ft (101-701 m) below sea level. Many countries catch this fish for commercial purposes....

There are 30 different subspecies of wallabies. The red-necked wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus) subspecies are common to Australia and Tasmania in grasslands and tropical forests. Red-necked wallabies are smaller than kangaroos and it’s easy to get confused between the two. Red-necked wallabies are medium-sized species that are often prey to hunting and other illegal practices primarily due to the reason that they destroy crops.The wallaby comes from the Eora Aboriginal tribe who are said to be original inhabitants of the Sydney area....

The Rottweiler Bulldog mix is an adorable crossbreed of a Bulldog and a Rottweiler. It isn’t a purebred dog and can be known as a Bullweiler, American Bulldog Rottweiler mix, or the English Bulldog Rottweiler mix. This incredibly loyal and devoted dog needs owners who have plenty of time on their hands as it requires a lot of time from its owners due to its high energy levels. The American Bulldog Rottweiler mix can be quite large or medium in size....

Dinosaur specimens continue to be discovered.This article sheds light on a new genus of pachycephalosaurid (bone-headed dinosaur). Named Texacephale, this species was found in Texas.Dinosaurs pique everyone’s curiosity, and paleontologists, through their Cretaceous research, feed our appetites. At the Big Bend National Park, Texas, a small herbivorous dinosaur was accidentally discovered. This was the Texan head, a discovery that helped support a theory that the dinosaurs of the northern US and Canada were quite different from those found in the southern US....