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Native to the Mojave and Sonoran deserts of the United States and Mexico, the desert tortoise can grow to be over 80 years old. It spends most of i...

The male mallard duck, instantly recognizable by its green head and yellow bill, is ubiquitous throughout the northern hemisphere, with perhaps a l...

Most commonly raised for wool, an ewe is a female sheep, a descendent of a wild mountain mouflon. Over 200 domestic breeds exist worldwide, having ...

As marsupials, kangaroo babies (called joeys) stay in their mothers' pouches for up to 200 days before being fully able to venture off into the wor...

Velociraptor was a small, carnivorous dinosaur that lived in Mongolia during the Late Cretaceous, 71 to 75 million years ago. Unlike the fictional ...

Bottom-feeding Nurse Sharks have a very limited range, swimming the warm coastal waters off West Africa and South and Central America. The 9-foot s...

Native to the mountainous regions of central and South Asia, the snow leopard is a relatively small member of the Panthera genus. With a stocky bod...

Whitetail deer are what's known as a generalist, which means they can adapt to a wide range of habitats. They can be found all throughout Canada an...

The African Elephant consists of two different species, the African bush elephant and the African forest elephant, the bush elephant being the larg...

Dozens of species of rabbits, including popular types such as the Eastern cottontail, snowshoe hare, and jackrabbit, make their homes throughout th...

Chicken breeds number in the hundreds, as farmers and breeders have selected for size, egg color, meat, growth, and many other factors. A hen is a ...

Despite its colorful appearance, the red-eye tree frog isn’t poisonous. Instead, it relies on camouflage to hide itself from predators. During the ...

Despite their somewhat wolf-life appearance, the closest relative to hyenas are cats, mongooses, and civets, all of which make up the Feliformia su...

Lambs are young sheep. A sheep is considered a "lamb" if it is younger than one year old. Unlike humans who can take up to a year to start walking,...

One of the most common land mammals across North America and even parts of Central and South America, the whitetail deer can be found in a multitu...

Once believed to be only a myth, the giant squid is a deep-ocean dwelling squid that can grow to gargantuan sizes. Estimations suggest it can grow ...

Named for its habit of rooting through hedges and undergrowth for tasty insects, hedgehogs are any of the spiny mammals within the subfamily Erinac...

The crocodile is a large reptile that can be found in Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, South America and Central America. Crocodiles can gro...

A semiaquatic mammal primarily endemic to North America, the river otter is actually a close relative of the weasel and shares many of the same hab...

Parasaurolophus was one of the largest known ‘duck-billed dinosaurs’ from North America. The tube-like, bony crest on its head may have produced lo...

Smaller but very similar to their relative the gray wolf, coyotes are a type of canine that are endemic to North and Central America. What coyotes ...

Although there is just one species of Bottlenose Dolphins, there two ecotypes, a coastal variant and a deep-water type. The coastal dolphins are ab...

Alpacas only exist as domesticated animals; no wild alpacas exist, although their wild cousins can be found roaming the Andes Mountains of South Am...

The gray reef shark is likely very similar to what most people picture when they hear the word “shark”. As its name implies, it is gray in color an...