4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1179+ words) WorldAtlas North Carolina's beaches not only feature on local shark-infested beach lists, but some also make an appearance on world ranking lists. Emerald Isle has several historical shark-bite records and lies along a coast that is seasonally used by numerous…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (820+ words) WorldAtlas Stand in almost any patch of woods east of the Mississippi River, and there is a good chance the oldest tree around is not much older than a great-grandparent. That is not because American forests are dying, but because…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1102+ words) One note on counting. Total species, species per river mile and species per square mile of drainage give three different winners, and all three are worth knowing. Start with the basin rather than any single river, because the basin figure…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1052+ words) Here is the whole family, from the one nobody can catch to the one everybody eats. It is a subfamily. Coregoninae contains dozens of species across the northern hemisphere, and the ones people actually mean are wildly different animals. Lake…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (343+ words) More than 180 non-native aquatic species have been recorded in the Great Lakes basin. One notorious invader, however, has so far been kept from establishing a reproducing population in the lakes themselves: the silver carp. Silver carp were brought to the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (710+ words) WorldAtlas A single mountain lion can range across hundreds of square miles of backcountry. One young male tracked by biologists covered more than 1,500 miles, wandering from the Black Hills of South Dakota all the way to Connecticut. Territories that large,…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (842+ words) The blue pike was Lake Erie's fish. It was not a pike at all but a walleye relative, steel grey-blue and topping out around three pounds. Its eyes were noticeably larger than a yellow walleye's and set higher on the…...