North America is home to an incredibly diverse range of wildlife, from iconic creatures like the American bison and bald eagle to lesser-known species like the mountain lion and prairie dog. But there are some animals that are so rare that they’re rarely seen or even known to the general...
There are more than 200 North American species in this family – which includes the black widow spider.Sheetweb and dwarf spiders, family Linyphiidae is the second largest after Salticidae. Comprised of 4,300 described species in 578 genera, this family is poorly known because of their small ...
Lynx spiders pose little danger for humans. Although there have been a few cases of human envenomation, the bites do not cause much more than temporary pain and swelling at the site, and no tissue damage or aftereffects. Lynx spiders, like all others in the family Oxyopidae, are diurnal, ...
Bobcats, house cats, Canada lynx, and cougars all have pads that have two lobes at the top and three at the bottom. In the other North American species, such as ocelots, jaguars and jaguarundis the main pads may appear much more trapezoidal and the lobes are much less pronounced....
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Thus, understanding patterns of genetic structure provide information about the needs and approaches for population management and species conservation. To date studies addressing the population structure of Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) have been surprisingly equivocal, despite a large amount of research ...
Disturbance dynamics differ in the three subregions of the North American boreal forest (taiga, western United States, and eastern United States) where lynx are found, resulting in a range of potential effects on lynx populations. Fire severity tends to be high in most of the forest types where...
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This analysis revealed that the needles were made from the bones of red foxes, hares or rabbits, bobcats, mountain lions, lynx, and the now-extinct American cheetah (Miracinonyx trumani), according to Phys.org. The researchers speculate that these animals were not primarily hunted for their me...
Find an alphabetic listing of all our spider species. If this does not give you the creeps, nothing will!