Asian mudskipper
Fish out of water These fish are unusual as some species spend most of their time out of the water. Mudskippers are usually found in Mangroves and mudflats on the coast. They are a...
Learning resources
Green iguana
The green iguana is wide ranging and can be found from Mexico through to Central and South America. They are seen as invasive animals in southern Florida and Hawaii. They live in h...
Orchids
Thousands of species There are more than 25,000 documented orchid species throughout the world, with hundreds more being discovered each year. This means the number of orchid speci...
Carpet python
Carpet pythons are mainly found on mainland Australia. They live in a range of habitats, from rainforests to deserts. This species spends much of the day up in a tree but also come...
Bromeliads
Thousands of species Bromeliads originate from South and Central America, the Caribbean and West Africa. They grow in deserts, mountains and forests. The most well known bromeliad ...
Channel billed toucan
Channel billed toucans rarely fly more than 100 metres at a time and prefer to bounce from branch to branch. Keeping cool The channel billed toucan’s large bill helps to reg...
Yellow-knobbed curassow
Yellow-knobbed curassows live in the forests of Colombia and Venezuela in South America. They are often found near river valleys and water holes during the dry season, or in grassy...
Rosy periwinkle
This pretty plant from Madagascar gives us two very important cancer-fighting medicines: vinblastine and vincristine. Vincristine has helped increase the chance of surviving childh...
Giant taro
Giant taro has the largest un-split leaf in the world, reaching two metres long. The giant leaves are ideally adapted to absorbing the small amount of light that reaches the rainfo...
Philippines jade vine
The Philippines Jade Vine has some of the most extraordinary flowers of any plant. Enormous, metre-long spikes of brilliant turquoise blooms hang from the scrambling stems usually ...