• the names of broad gauge railway locomotives were drawn from areas such as Greek, Roman and other mythologies, famous people, literature, flora, fauna, towns, geographical features, speed and power?
• the Fairfield Osborn Preserve is home to a great variety of fauna including one of the world's largest salamanders?
• Semuliki National Park in Uganda is one of the richest areas of floral and faunal diversity in Africa?
• Mark Catesby published the first account of the flora and fauna of North America?
• 1,468 fauna species are found within the protected area of Laguna de Términos, located in southeastern Mexico?

Facts on topics related to Fauna

Flora

• Jane Colden was the first female botanist to describe flora in the United States?
• Joseph Schröter, a 19th century Prussian military doctor, was a noted mycologist who discovered and described many previously unknown species of flora and fungi?
• Mark Catesby published the first account of the flora and fauna of North America?
• Semuliki National Park in Uganda is one of the richest areas of floral and faunal diversity in Africa?
• Hortus Malabaricus, the earliest printed treatise on the flora in Asia, contains the first instances of Malayalam types being used for printing?
• the ecosystem contained in Myanmar's N'Mai River watershed contains some of the most diverse flora of its type in the world, yet it is threatened with destruction through damming?
• the names of broad gauge railway locomotives were drawn from areas such as Greek, Roman and other mythologies, famous people, literature, flora, fauna, towns, geographical features, speed and power?

Eocene

• the extinct Lotus Nelumbo aureavallis is known from Eocene rocks in western North Dakota?
• the discovery of Lazarussuchus showed that choristoderes, a type of aquatic reptile, had not gone extinct in the Eocene, but persisted for millions of years after?