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Pythons Wiping Out Mammal Species in Everglades A surge in the Burmese python population in Florida's Everglades is likely responsible for the major decline of mammals there. The snakes are not native to the area and were likely introduced to the environment through the pet trade. Without natural predators to curb their spread, the python population has swelled, with devastating consequences for native mammal populations. Raccoon, opossum, ...
Grolar Bear or Pizzly? An ursid hybrid is a bear that is the offspring of two different species or subspecies of the bear family. Brown bears, black bears, grizzly bears, and polar bears have all produced hybrid offspring, but nearly all were bred in captivity. In 2006, a bear shot by a hunter in Canada's Northwest Territories was later confirmed by DNA testing to ...
Nepenthes Rajah: The Plant with an Appetite Nepenthes rajah is a carnivorous pitcher plant species endemic to Borneo. Its most distinctive features—giant urn-shaped traps, called pitchers, containing water and digestive fluid—allow it to catch and digest insects and even small vertebrates and mammals. These pitchers also host a number of organisms with which it is thought to form symbiotic relationships. Called nepenthebionts, many of these organisms are ...
The Glyptodon An ancient relative of the armadillo, the Glyptodon was a large, armored, herbivorous mammal that that lived during the Pleistocene epoch and became extinct just 10,000 years ago. Covered by a protective shell composed of more than 1,000 one-inch-thick bony plates, the Glyptodon also possessed a bony cap on its skull and a ring of bones on its tail for ...
Box Jellyfish Found in waters near Hawaii, Australia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and many other tropical areas, box jellyfish are named for their somewhat cube-shaped bodies but are best known for the extremely powerful venom possessed by some of their species, including Chironex fleckeri and Carukia barnesi, two of the most venomous creatures in the animal kingdom. Stings from such species are excruciatingly ...