Habitat: The double-eyed fig parrot (Cyclopsitta diophthalma) was given its curious name because of a spot close to the eye in some races, giving the impression of a second eye. Its...
Little wattlebirds (Anthochaera chrysoptera) belong to the Meliphagidae family of honeyeaters. Little Wattlebirds have replaced Brush Wattlebirds in...
The Tanana name comes from the Tanana River, which flows through their homeland in present-day east-central Alaska. About 130 air miles west of Fairbanks, Tanana...
The prehistoric Natchez Trace, named by French traders and meaning "Natchez Indian Trail," runs across Mississippi and Alabama before entering Tennessee. The 440-mile, (708-kilometer-long)...
What happened to the Toltec empire? Unfortunately, history defines nothing clearly about it. Around A.D. 900, the Toltec tribe migrated into the Valley of...
Adelaide Phillipps was a Contralto singer, born in Stratford-on-Avon. The family moved to Canada, and hence to Boston, when Adelaide was seven years old....
This blog post rediscovers the rich cultural heritage of the slavey tribe. The Slavey, pronounced SLAY-vee, or Slave, was a tribe among Athapascan-speaking peoples...
DNA reveals the unexpected origins of mysterious Tarim mummies buried in a boat in a Chinese desert. Hundreds of mummified bodies dating back approximately...
The terrifying discovery of the Mount Owen Claw perplexed archaeologists for several decades. In 1986, a group of archaeologists were conducting an excursion inside...