The endangered kakapo, only found in New Zealand, is the only flightless parrot in the world. Native to the island of Hispaniola, the Hispaniolan solenodon is a burrowing animal that looks like a ...

Yet, beyond such charismatic and iconic examples, animal landscape engineers can be viewed as curiosities—interesting but uncommon ... but they were not included in our study. My team was astounded by ...

We showed that despite covering only 2.4% of the planet's land surface, freshwater habitats host over a third of these fascinating animals. We inevitably missed some studied species in our searches.