Search results

  • Thumbnail for Pieter Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker (10 July 1819 – 24 January 1878) was a Dutch medical doctor, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He was famous for the Atlas Ichthyologique...
    8 KB (691 words) - 01:04, 12 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Cylindraspis
    Cylindraspis is a genus of recently extinct giant tortoises. All of its species lived in the Mascarene Islands (Mauritius, Rodrigues and Réunion) in the...
    5 KB (531 words) - 01:02, 31 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dewlap
    A dewlap is a longitudinal flap of skin or similar flesh that hangs beneath the lower jaw or neck of many vertebrates. More loosely, it can be various...
    7 KB (849 words) - 00:51, 5 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Yellow-spotted river turtle
    The yellow-spotted Amazon river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis), also known commonly as the yellow-headed sideneck turtle and the yellow-spotted river turtle...
    7 KB (717 words) - 03:36, 6 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Karelian Bear Dog
    The Karelian Bear Dog (Karjalankarhukoira) is a Finnish breed of dog. In its home country, it is seen by many as a national treasure. Karelian Bear Dogs...
    7 KB (816 words) - 11:11, 26 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Island restoration
    The ecological restoration of islands, or island restoration, is the application of the principles of ecological restoration to islands and island groups...
    32 KB (4,062 words) - 05:18, 20 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Big Bend slider
    The Big Bend slider (Trachemys gaigeae), also called commonly the Mexican Plateau slider and la jicotea de la meseta mexicana in Mexican Spanish, is a...
    9 KB (760 words) - 18:31, 3 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Geometric tortoise
    The geometric tortoise (Psammobates geometricus) is a critically endangered species of tortoise and one of three members of the genus Psammobates. It is...
    15 KB (1,877 words) - 15:14, 29 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Florida red-bellied cooter
    The Florida red-bellied cooter or Florida redbelly turtle (Pseudemys nelsoni) is a species of turtle in the family Emydidae. The specific name, nelsoni...
    7 KB (767 words) - 10:38, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bourret's box turtle
    Bourret's box turtle (Cuora bourreti), also known commonly as the central Vietnamese flowerback box turtle and the Indochinese box turtle, is a species...
    6 KB (551 words) - 10:59, 23 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Columbia spotted frog
    The Columbia spotted frog (Rana luteiventris) is a North American species of frog. It is green to brown in color with spots on the dorsal surface. The...
    12 KB (1,407 words) - 19:05, 16 October 2023
  • Laurence Edgar Skog (born April 9, 1943) is an American botanist who specializes in the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae. Laurence Edgar Skog was born...
    2 KB (165 words) - 20:22, 25 August 2023
  • Cibolites is a genus of ammonoid in the family Paraceltitidae of the cephalopod order Ceratitida which lived during the Late Permian. The genus was first...
    1 KB (94 words) - 19:18, 18 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Amblema neislerii
    Amblema neislerii, the fat threeridge, is a freshwater mussel native to the rivers in southern Georgia and Florida. It belongs to the family Unionidae...
    3 KB (320 words) - 14:03, 2 June 2023
  • Skew deviation is an unusual ocular deviation (strabismus), wherein the eyes move upward (hypertropia) in opposite directions. Skew deviation is caused...
    2 KB (257 words) - 22:06, 28 January 2023
  • Felidae Conservation Fund (FCF) is a California-based non-profit organization dedicated to preserving wild cats and their habitats. The organization supports...
    11 KB (1,310 words) - 19:09, 16 January 2023
  • Lackrana is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Geometridae". Butterflies and Moths of the...
    763 bytes (31 words) - 21:22, 4 January 2021
  • The Congal Biomarine Station is a protected nature reserve created in 2000 and is located in southwestern Esmeraldas Province, close to the town of Muisne...
    5 KB (621 words) - 20:08, 20 December 2023