On the list of animal names that would send the poor creature into therapy if it had to go to school with human kids, “numbat” is certainly in the top five. It’s also the number one animal mistaken for a thylacine or Tasmanian tiger – possibly because it’s the thylacine’s closest living relative – and […]
If you’ve ever used a compass, you already know that the Earth has a magnetic field by which we can navigate. When the needle of our compass points north, it’s actually pointing toward Earth’s magnetic south — because, with magnets, opposites attract. But north as we know it has not always been. In fact, throughout the […]
The study first exceeded the barrier of one hundred thousand species of animals and plants evaluated. More than 28,000 species of animals and plants are threatened on Earth, according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species (International Union for Conservation of Nature), which is the most complete source of information […]
