Atlas
A trail is a short, ordered route through the atlas. Each stop says why it comes next, so a journey reads as an argument rather than a list. Start one, leave, and come back: your place is kept in this browser, and you do not need an account for that.
The genus Canis is only one branch of the dog family. These eleven genera, taken in a path from Africa through Asia to the Americas, show how canids became jackal-like, fox-like, insect-eating, partly aquatic or...
11 stops
This path walks twelve well known animals in order of how threatened the atlas records them, starting with a species rated Least Concern and ending with three rated Critically Endangered. Each stop names the pressure...
12 stops
A walk through this wave's new ground: four biomes most lists skip (Alpine, Tropical Dry Forest, Estuary, Polar Desert) and eight of the processes that explain how the living world actually works, from a textbook...
12 stops
Seven biomes walked out to their flagship new ecosystem: from the Sahara and the Sonoran to the Great Plains, Kruger and the ice-edge waters of the Antarctic Peninsula, the wave that gave this atlas twenty newly named...
17 stops
The founding wave's own shape is a natural trail: seven biomes, each anchored by species and phenomena this atlas has already researched, from the sun-baked saguaro of the desert to the krill-filtering blue whale of the...
7 stops
From the fire-adapted shrublands of five continents to the freshwater lake holding a fifth of the planet's unfrozen fresh water: a curated path through the wave that took Biomes and Ecosystems from the atlas's two...
10 stops
A savanna finally split out from grassland, a mangrove coast that answers to cold rather than heat, the most pristine ocean left on Earth, and a rainforest older than flowering plants: the wave that took Biomes and...
8 stops
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