Rats are amazing creatures with amazing skills, abilities, intelligence, memory and traits. Learn rat stories, trivia, and unusual facts about these rodents.

How different animals see color and animal vision including rod diversity, color blindness and perspective in dogs, cats, horses, snakes, insects and more.

From toilet trained and seeing-eye to station master and ceiling cats here are some of the strangest celebrity felines to make front pages and prime time around the world.

t seems like yesterday that WebEcoist was launched with a mandate to cover "even more of your favorite travel, art, architecture and oddities, but with a twist:

Let's take a brief look at this hopefully transient trend and think about what art really is. Is it culture, or is it barbarianism?

Tree climbing, fainting and mountain goats as well as some odds and ends thrown in for entertainment - who knew this one type of animal could be so cool?

Extreme altitude, highest places in the world, highest cities and villages on the planet, and most remote high altitude geographic locations on earth.

There are some truly amazing animals who have overcome disabilities to help fellow animals as well as their owners - saving and rescuing against all odds.

The following collection has a mix of the longest, deepest, and widest (in area) canyons and gorges from around the world.

Let's take a look at some of the most interesting facts and mysteries surrounding the Earth.

The most remote islands on earth, islands in lakes, the smallest islands, islands in cities and other amazing islands.

Here's a look at 5 arctic animals that possess the amazing ability to change their color in the winter for camouflage.

Humans eat pets for meals around the world, including dog, cat, rat, snake, lizard, guinea pig, frogs and other animals.

Air, wind and sky artists can challenge our preconceptions and broaden our (literal) horizons by problematizing the simplistic duality of Earth and Sky.

The Sun is the largest object in our solar system and is of utmost importance to the existence of life on our planet Earth.