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The pacarana (Dinomys branickii) is a rare and slow-moving hystricognath rodent indigenous to South America. Native Tupi people call it the pacarana (false...

Blasisaurus is a genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It is known from a partial skull and skeleton found in late Maastrichtian-age...

Dariusz Lucjan Szlachetko (born 1961) is a Polish botanist and orchidologist. Garaya D.L. Szlachetko in Polish Bot. Stud., 5: 4 (1993). Schiedeella schlechteriana...

Pyrrhocoroidea is a superfamily of true bugs in the infraorder Pentatomomorpha. Hemala, Vladimír; Kment, Petr; Malenovský, Igor (2020-01-01). "The comparative...

Władysław Kulczyński (27 March 1854, Kraków – 9 December 1919, Kraków) was a Polish zoologist who specialised in arachnology. Kulczyński, Władysław (1975)...

Zantedeschia (/ˌzæntɪˈdɛskiə/) is a genus of eight species of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants in the aroid family, Araceae, native to southern...

An outbreak of smallpox occurred in the city of Wrocław in Poland in the summer of 1963. The disease was brought to Poland by an officer in the Ministry...

Vira Misevych (Ukrainian: Віра Місевич; 10 April 1945 – 4 March 1995) was an equestrian from Soviet Union and Olympic champion. She won a gold medal in...

Agrostemma githago, the common corn-cockle (also written "corncockle"), is a herbaceous annual flowering plant a member of Caryophyllaceae, also called...

The coruro (Spalacopus cyanus) is a species of rodent in the family Octodontidae. It is the only species in the genus Spalacopus. The species is endemic...

The white-fronted tit (Sittiparus semilarvatus) is a species of bird in the family Paridae. It is endemic to the Philippines found in the islands of Luzon...

Serengetilagus is a genus of lagomorph in the family Leporidae. It lived in the Pliocene of Kenya and Tanzania and the Late Miocene of Chad. Serengetilagus...

Ruscus, commonly known as butcher's broom, is a genus of six species of flowering plants, native to western and southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwestern...

Georg Heinrich Weber (27 July 1752 Göttingen – 25 July 1828 Kiel) was a German botanist, physician and professor at the University of Kiel. He was also...

Behnia is a genus of flowering plants. In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae (formerly the...

Photobacterium phosphoreum is a Gram-negative, bioluminescent bacterium living in symbiosis with deep-sea marine organisms, such as anglerfish. It can...

Wiesław Hartman (23 October 1950 – 24 November 2021) was a Polish show jumping equestrian and Olympic medalist. Hartman was born in Kwidzyn, Poland, on...

Pelophylax cypriensis or Cyprus water frog is a species of frog in the family Ranidae. It is endemic to Cyprus. It is widespread in Cyprus, with the highest...

Acrocera orbiculus, also known as the top-horned hunchback, is a species of fly belonging to the family Acroceridae. The species has a holarctic distribution...

Astatotilapia desfontainii is a species of cichlid found in Algeria and Tunisia. It is found in freshwater spring, irrigated land, and canals and ditches...