Antarctica

The Amorphophallus Bulbifer

Amorphophallus bulbifer is ripening a lot of fruit these years, at the UConn EEB greenhouses. Despite Amorphophallus Bulbifer's appearance and the fact that birds or some other animal disperser...

Painted buttonquail (Turnix varius)

Family: Painted buttonquail (Turnix varius) is the quails that belong to the family Turnicidae, but do not closely...

Bobcat (Lynx rufus)

The bobcat (Lynx rufus) was once considered the southern form of the Canada lynx. However, the fossils and...

Black Grasswren (Amytornis housei)

The Black Grasswren (Amytornis housei) could have been a lost species as well. However, the Black Grasswren was...

Regent Bowerbird: Nature’s Masterpiece of Color and Beauty

Regent Bowerbird (Sericulus chrysocephalus) lives in the mid-eastern coastal rainforests. They hide in tangles of ferns and lawyer...

Incredible Rectangular Iceberg Floating Off Antarctica

Nature follows its own rules and laws, but sometimes results are often irregular and asymmetric like clouds and coastline and ocean waves. NASA scientists...

The Mysterious Blood Falls

Blood Falls a natural phenomenon, a liquid outflow at the snout of Taylor Glacier in East Antarctica. Numerous glaciers have icy outflows, but few are...