Lex Basu
Author for A-Z Animals

Key Points For the first time in 17 years, Maryland is seeing the emergence of Brood X cicadas. Contrary to some beliefs, the cicadas are mostly unharmful.The Maryland Center for… Read More

By Lex Basu 3 years ago

Key Points: The loudest animal in the world is the sperm whale, which can produce a clicking sound of up to 233 decibels. Sperm whales are also the largest toothed… Read More

By Lex Basu 3 years ago

Key Points When a brood of cicadas is preparing to emerge from underground, people often start to notice their predators beginning to appear. These include birds, moles, foxes, and snakes.… Read More

By Lex Basu 3 years ago

Key Points Brood X is a swarm of 'periodic cicadas' that only emerge once every 17 years to breed. It's one of the most widespread cicada swarms.Dog owners are familiar… Read More

By Lex Basu 3 years ago

Key Points Not to be confused with locusts, cicadas do feed off of vegetation. However, they only eat tree sap and do not seriously damage the plants they use for… Read More

By Lex Basu 3 years ago

Key Points Chipmunks are the cute little ground-dwelling rodents with stripes down their back. But when they start digging burrows all over your yard, they become considerably less cute.They can… Read More

By Lex Basu 3 years ago

Key Points The history of humans' bonding with animals may date back as far as 10,000 years into the past.It's hard to identify the exact point in history when humans… Read More

By Lex Basu 3 years ago

Key Points: Brood X is a group of cicadas slated to come out of hiding in the Spring of 2021 in parts of the United States. This type of cicada… Read More

By Lex Basu 3 years ago

Key Points: There's a model of the 94-foot-long blue whale in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. But the… Read More

By Lex Basu 3 years ago

Key Points The biggest dogs are mastiffs, which originate from ancient Roman war dogs and can be 160 to 230 pounds. The biggest dog ever was an English mastiff that… Read More

By Lex Basu 3 years ago

Key Points: What's weirder than weird? The tardigrade, a microscopic creature that is virtually indestructible, even able to survive space!The pangolin, or scaly anteater, is covered in plate-like scales that… Read More

By Lex Basu 3 years ago

Key Points Long-eared owls blend in visually and also fly in near-perfect silence. There are both blue and white arctic foxes, and the white ones turn brown and grey during… Read More

By Lex Basu 3 years ago

Key Points Okay, so number one can actually only jump ten inches. But for a flea that measures only a tiny fraction of an inch, that's 200 times their size.… Read More

By Lex Basu 3 years ago

Key Points The 6th mass extinction is going on and believe it or not, ninety nine percent of species have gone extinct in the past five hundred years alone.Humans have… Read More

By Lex Basu 3 years ago

Key Points: The peregrine falcon can reach an amazing speed of 242 mph in descent. The fastest insect? If you thought it was the pesky housefly, you'd be correct. Amazingly,… Read More

By Lex Basu 4 years ago

Key Points: The platypus is one of the few poisonous mammals on earth. It can shoot its venom from it's feet! Elephants can't physically jump because they have weak lower-leg… Read More

By Lex Basu 4 years ago

Key Points Guinea Pigs are among the most sought after pets in the world. They are warm and fuzzy and highly sociable.Although they are now found all over the globe,… Read More

By Lex Basu 6 years ago

Key Points Amazon is, without a doubt, one of the most beautiful and dangerous places in the whole world.There are species of flora, fauna, fish, birds, insects, animals and humans,… Read More

By Lex Basu 9 years ago

Key Points The Barcelona Zoo is located in the Parc de la Ciutadella area of the city, which is in the Catalonia region of Spain.The zoo was once home to… Read More

By Lex Basu 9 years ago

Key Points The Grey Squirrels are a native to North America, however, in the 19th century they were brought in to the UK and now have a considerable population there… Read More

By Lex Basu 11 years ago

Key Points Pigeons belong to the species called Columbidae, the name of the family of pigeons and doves.Pigeons have been used by humans for centuries to act as couriers, pets,… Read More

By Lex Basu 12 years ago

Key Points The Panamanian Golden frog is a critically endangered species of frog, once native to the streams on the Cordilleran mountain slopes and cloud forests.There are almost no golden… Read More

By Lex Basu 13 years ago

Key Points Beluga Sturgeon is a breed of ray-finned fish that belong to the Acipenseriformes family and have been found in fossil form as well.They are native to the Caspian… Read More

By Lex Basu 13 years ago

Key Points The green-cheeked parrot is breed of parrot that has a long tail, green body and distinguished green feathers along their beaks and eyes.They are native of Central and… Read More

By Lex Basu 13 years ago

Key Points The polar regions of the earth are the most harsh environments to live in.The temperature fluctuates between zero degrees in the summer to minus forty degrees in the… Read More

By Lex Basu 13 years ago

Key Points Europe was once home to Caspian Tigers, Jaguars, Cave Lions, now extinct.At the moment the only big cats found in Europe is Iberian and Eurasian Lynx.Although these cat… Read More

By Lex Basu 13 years ago

Key Points Out of all the species in Africa, there were a few that were popular with hunters and poachers around the globe.These species have been dubbed as the 'Big… Read More

By Lex Basu 13 years ago

Key Points Being able to blend in to the surrounding is a quality that helps animals escape predators and live peacefully.Chameleon is not the only creature in the world that… Read More

By Lex Basu 13 years ago

Key Points Cats are independent creatures and even though you may think you know what your cat is up to, they are hard to keep inside and contained.Unlike dogs, cats… Read More

By Lex Basu 14 years ago

Key Points Humans are the most invasive species in the world and their expansion has caused unfathomable damage to the environment.The most impact has come from deforestation and pollution caused… Read More

By Lex Basu 14 years ago

Key Points Orangutans were once found all across south-east Asia and south of China, however, they are now found only in Sumatra and Borneo.There are over 2000 Orangutans found in… Read More

By Lex Basu 15 years ago

Key Points There are five senses that can be scientifically identified, the sense of smell, sight, hearing, taste and touch.Many have claimed that there is another sense which cannot be… Read More

By Lex Basu 15 years ago