Jacob Emmanuel
Jacob Emmanuel Terkimbi A content writer at Krafty Sprouts Media and also a filmmaker/content creator at Brain Alams Films
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16 Insects That Look Like Bees (And How to Tell Them Apart)
Not every fuzzy, yellow-and-black insect buzzing around a flower bed is actually a bee. A surprising number of the types of insects that look like bees are flies, moths, beetles,…
9 Animals With Multiple Hearts and the Science Behind Their Extra Pumps
A human heart beats roughly 100,000 times a day, and most of the animal kingdom gets by with that same single-pump arrangement. Yet a surprising number of species never settled…
24 Types of Insects in the Philippines: From Household Pests to Farm Invaders
More than 21,000 insect species are found across the Philippine archipelago, and the Philippines has some 21,000 insect species, 70 percent of which are endemic to the country. That number…
16 Brown Types of Caterpillars You Can Identify in Gardens, Forests, and Fields
Brown is the most common caterpillar color in North America and Europe for a simple reason: it blends into bark, soil, and leaf litter better than almost any other shade.…
26 Different Types of Caterpillars in Oklahoma (Identification Guide)
Step into a prairie, a pecan grove, or even a backyard tomato patch in Oklahoma and there’s a good chance a caterpillar is somewhere nearby, chewing quietly on a leaf.…
43 Animals That Start with I: From the Iberian Lynx to the Ivy Bee
The letter I does not get much attention in the animal kingdom, yet it introduces an unusually varied cast: a nearly-extinct Iberian cat, a jellyfish that can reverse its own…
20 Types of Insects That Morph: From Moths to Mayflies
A caterpillar chewing through a leaf and the moth fluttering past a porch light look like two different animals, yet they’re the same creature living out separate chapters of one…
67 Animals That Start With F: From Falcons to Formosan Mountain Dogs
A peregrine falcon folding its wings mid-dive moves faster than a Formula 1 car at top speed, and it shares the letter F with creatures just as surprising: a fish-eating…
14 Largest Reptiles in the World, Ranked by Size and Weight
A male saltwater crocodile can weigh more than a small car and still move through water almost silently. That single fact sets the tone for this list: the largest reptiles…
24 Types of Wasps in North America: From Yellowjackets to Giant Wood Wasps
Most people picture a single angry insect when they hear the word “wasp,” but the reality is far stranger and more interesting. North America is home to dozens of wasp…
10 Types of Beetles with Stripes (and Which Ones Are Garden Pests)
A striped beetle crossing the garden path might be an orange-and-black menace plotting to strip a potato patch bare, or it could be a harmless jewel beetle just passing through.…
10 Types of Nautiloids: Meet the Living Species of Nautilus and Allonautilus
Fossil hunters have catalogued more than 2,500 nautiloid species from rock layers spanning nearly half a billion years, yet only a small cluster of coiled-shell survivors remains in today’s oceans.…
44 Animals That Start with J: From Jaguars to Junglefowl
Animals that start with J make up one of the most varied rosters in the animal kingdom, spanning a five-foot wetland stork, a 300-pound island lizard, and a spider no…
55 Animals That Start With H (Mammals, Birds, Fish, and More)
Ask most people to name an animal that starts with H and they will probably say hippo, horse, or hamster. But the letter H opens the door to one of…
82 Animals That Start with E: From Eagles to Eyelash Vipers
Few letters of the alphabet produce a stranger mix of wildlife than E. Within a single list you get continent-spanning raptors, a lizard so secretive that herpetologists call it the…
12 Poisonous Animals in Australia Every Traveler Should Know
Australia carries a reputation few other countries can match: a continent where the snakes, spiders, and jellyfish are often more venomous than almost anything else on Earth. That reputation is…
23 Animals That Eat Bunnies in the Wild and Close to Home
Rabbits sit near the bottom of almost every food web they live in, and that position comes with a long list of hunters. Animals that eat bunnies range from raptors…
14 Types of Ladybugs with Spots and How to Tell Them Apart
Most people assume every ladybug has exactly seven black spots on a red background, but that description only fits one species out of roughly 5,000 found worldwide. Some ladybugs carry…
100 Animals That Start With G: From Gaboon Vipers to Goliath Beetles
From the venom-loaded fangs of a forest-floor viper to the towering frame of the world’s tallest land mammal, animals that start with G cover an astonishing range of shapes, sizes,…
74 Animals That Start With L (From Labradoodles to Lowland Pacas)
The letter L hides an unusual mix of animal royalty and oddities most people have never heard of. Lions and leopards get the headlines, but animals that start with L…
