Alina Bradford

Jackals are medium-size members of the dog family. They live primarily in Africa, and also in Europe and Asia.

Gophers are small, furry rodents that burrow tunnels through yards of North America and Central America.

Baboons are the world’s largest monkeys. They have distinctive faces and butts.

Bumblebees are very important pollinators. Without them, food wouldn't grow.

Weasels are small, voracious carnivores that are found all over the world.

Red pandas are small mammals with long, fluffy tails and red and white markings. They are not related to giant pandas.

Echidnas are walking contradictions. They are mammals, but they lay eggs. They are described as long-beaked and short-beaked, but they don't have beaks in the traditional sense.

Pangolins, also called scaly anteaters, are covered in hard, armor-like scales. These mammals are one of the most trafficked mammals in Asia and Africa, and are endangered.

The U.S. government's Dietary Guidelines for Americans offers recommendations on food and nutrition. ChooseMyPlate.gov provides tools to help set dietary goals.

The MIND diet is designed to lower the risk of Alzheimer's disease by promoting a diet consisting of brain-healthy foods.

Properties, sources and uses of the element plutonium.

Trans fats, created by adding hydrogen to vegetable oil, are considered unhealthy. The FDA has ordered companies to remove partially hydrogenated oils from their food products by June 2018.

Properties, sources and uses of the element iridium.

Properties, sources and uses of the element tungsten.

Properties, sources and uses of the element xenon.

Entelodonts, also called hell pigs, were large, primitive mammals that lived during the Eocene. They weren't, however, related to pigs.

Neither bear nor dog, these extinct animals evolved to be massive predators.

Giant ground sloths were large, lumbering beasts that lived in the Americas during the Ice Age. Thomas Jefferson is credited with discovering one species.

Mastodons were prehistoric relatives of today's elephants. They were related to — and not the same animals as — woolly mammoths.

Leprosy is a contagious, chronic disease, but if it is caught and treated quickly enough, the disease usually is not debilitating.

Brain cancer affects 1 in 140 men and 1 in 180 women. It can change a person’s behavior and can be quite deadly, but it is rarely inoperable.

Porcupines are large, slow-moving rodents with sharp quills on their backs. They are found on every continent except Antarctica.

The Global Seed Vault is a storage facility that safely stores the world's seeds in case of worldwide disaster.

The okapi is a relative of the giraffe, but it has the body of a horse and stripes like a zebra.

The opossum is the only marsupial that is native to North America.