As night falls over Australia's forests, grasslands and backyards, the hidden world of nocturnal insects stirs to life. In ...

Baboons are the members of the genus Papio, found all over sub-Saharan Africa and parts of the Arabian Peninsula. These ...

Kangaroos and koalas might be the most notorious Australian ... these little animals.” Quokkas, like other marsupials, carry their young in pouches and are generally nocturnal, according to ...

Visitors who want to enjoy a close encounter with Australia's unique animals will ... and quolls (small nocturnal animals known for their spotted fur). According to recent visitors, Hartley's ...

It's a lyrebird and it comes from Australia ... egg-laying animals, spiders, animals with patterns and nocturnal wildlife.

A fox leaps out of the shadowy blackness and in a moment the animal’s evolutionary gamble to shun daylight for darkness has failed. But for the nocturnal hunter, it has paid off. While most ...

Nocturnal animals tend to have proportionally bigger eyes than humans do. They also tend to have pupils that open more widely in low light. So, at the outset, nocturnal eyes gather more light than ...

Howler monkeys demonstrate why they are some of the noisiest animals on the planet. After viewing, students could name all the ways in which the nocturnal animals shown in the clip are adapted for ...

Aye-Aye is a unique nocturnal animal that's native to Madagascar. It has large eyes and bat like ears. It uses its elongated finger to find insects in tree bark. Agouti is a rodent like mammal that's ...