Curated category
Cosmopolitan mammals
- Humpback whaleMathurin Jacques Brisson first identified the humpback whale in his Regnum Animale of 1756. Georg Heinrich Borowski later converted this name to its Latin…
- CattleAround 10,500 years ago, wild aurochs began their transformation into the cattle we know today. This process started in central Anatolia and the Levant near…
- SheepArchaeological evidence places the domestication of sheep between 11,000 and 9000 BC in Mesopotamia. This region served as a primary center for turning wild…
- Brown ratIn 1769, the English naturalist John Berkenhout published a book titled Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain.
- RabbitScientists moved rabbits from the order Rodentia into Lagomorpha in 1912. This change recognized that rabbits possess two extra incisors behind their front…
- DogIn 14,223 years ago, a dog was buried alongside a man and a woman in Bonn-Oberkassel, Germany. All three bodies had been sprayed with red hematite powder and…
- HumanIn 2015, the United Nations estimated that there were 316,600 living centenarians worldwide. This number represents a tiny fraction of the global population…