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What is your country's national animal? And do you know how it earned that title — through an act of parliament, a scientific vote, or simply generations of shared affection? Japan offers a particularly interesting case. The Green Pheasa...

One Family. One Genus. One Species. Imagine a branch of the mammal family tree reduced to a single living twig. Most mammal families include many species, but a few are represented today by just one genus—and that genus by one living spe...

When you see the word “eco” in this blog’s name, eco-life-planet, what comes to mind? Perhaps you think of ecology, or of the familiar idea of being “eco-friendly”. Those meanings are certainly related, but they are not quite the whole s...