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Jane Goodall is a board member of the Nonhuman Rights Project which seeks to achieve legal personhoo

Due mostly to deforestation for palm oil plantations, Orangutan numbers have declined by one-third i

Chimpanzees, our closest living relative, laugh when they play, embrace each other, tickle and even

Like humans, female gorillas are pregnant for nine months and usually give birth to only one infant.

Arsinoitherium was a herbivorous elephant relative that lived in what was the tropical forests of No

eartharchives:We think of mushrooms as the quintessential fungus. But they’re actually only the frui

If you scoop up all the other planets and dwarf-planets, all their moons, and all the asteroids and

Uberabatrachus was a small frog that lived among the dinosaurs in Brazil some 70 million years ago.

Is it the Death Star? No, it’s Mimas! Mimas is the 21st-largest moon in the Solar System and i

Why are flamingos pink? The distinctive pink color comes from their selective diet, which primarily

The black mamba is among the fastest snakes on Earth, slithering about at 12 miles per hour. They ar

The Inland Taipan is the most venomous snake in the world. It was first described in the 1800s but t

Nobody likes wars, or mosqitos. #nature #science #animals #mosquito #war #insects #trivia #eartharch

Camels have two rows of thick eyelashes to protect their eyes from desert dust. #camels #ungulates #

Ceratogaulus, or the horned gopher, which lived in the Great Plains of North America a few million y

The next time you try to kill those nasty stinging insects, remember they might actually be doing a

Owls have excellent night vision, but are very farsighted. Even though they can track their prey fro

Woops! Correction! Sperm whales are actually the loudest animals on Earth. Special thanks to Alex Ra

Pandora and Prometheus work together to maintain Saturn’s thin F Ring. The F Ring is so thin,

In Greek mythology, Deimos was the twin brother of Phobos and personified terror. #solarsystem #spac

Vesta is the second largest asteroid in our Asteroid Belt, making up 9% of the mass of all the aster

Tiger snake females are viviparous, meaning they give birth to live young and don’t lay eggs. You kn

Hygiea is the largest oblong asteroid in the Asteroid Belt and the fourth largest overall. #science

Phobos, Mars’ largest moon, is drawing closer to Mars by one meter every century, and it is pr

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