June 17, 2019

Southern White Rhinoceros

These easily recognizable creatures are native to middle and southern Africa. They are some of the largest land-dwelling mammals in...

June 3, 2019

Blue-throated Macaw

Blue-throated macaws are often called barba azul in Spanish, meaning “blue beard,” because of the bright blue coloration covering their...

August 29, 2018

Crowned lemurs, like all lemurs, are primates only found on the island of Madagascar, off the southeastern coast of Africa....

June 25, 2018

Alpacas are a domesticated, social species that live in herds. Although they originated in Peru, they have now spread worldwide...

February 15, 2018

The African slender-snouted crocodile is a medium-sized crocodilian and uses its slender snout for catching fish and other relatively small...

April 28, 2017

Aldabra tortoises are the second-largest species of tortoise in the world and, like their larger relatives on the Galapagos Islands,...

January 12, 2017

Reticulated pythons, along with the green anaconda, are the largest snakes in the world. The distinction is that these pythons...

January 12, 2017

Komodo dragons are Earth’s largest living lizards and are part of the large family known as monitor lizards.

January 12, 2017

The Guatemalan beaded lizard lives only in an isolated pocket of desert in eastern Guatemala. Discovered by scientists in the...

January 12, 2017

Eastern indigo snakes are the largest native non-venomous snake in the United States. Rather than relying on constriction to disable...