By depositing substantial piles of dung, vicuñas are speeding up plant colonization on freshly deglaciated terrain.

In this guide, we're going to look at the different types of soil. Soil contains lots of minibeasts (tiny animals which don't have a backbone) and microorganisms (which are too small to see).

"One of the challenges of eastern indigo snake monitoring is that the animals are highly mobile. When used in conjunction with active searches, soil samples ... indigo snakes live in dry sandhills ...