Salticidae – The Charismatic Spiders

Jumping spiders! Salticidae is the largest family of spiders, containing approximately 5,500-6,000 species, which accounts for around 13% of all spiders. These species are divided into 600+ genera, are typically small in size and famed for their incredible jumping abilities.…

Beavers – The dam builders

There are two living species of beavers, the Eurasian, Castor fiber and the North Americans, Castor canadensis. Beavers belong to the mammalian family Castoridae of Rodentia that evolved in the Oligocene epoch but the genus Castor evolved much later in…