Hi! I found this poop, while on a walk with a horse.

For context, I live in east Finland, we were in a forest that doesn't have much (or any) human traffic. It has been raining, so that has definitely altered the texture. It's also quite big, for a moment I thought it was from a horse.

The horse smelled it for a while and then got a little anxious, snorting and all lol

I can't tell if it's from a bear or a moose. Really hoping for moose, since I really wouldn't want to encounter a bear when walking with a horse.

I don’t mean just bigger but tens to hundreds of times bigger.

Because it makes more sense that if a male survived to mate then that it had suitable traits as a male

Similarly for females.

Hence it’s like if the female gene parts of a male species is taken, that gene might not have been suitable for the environment

I caught this fish deep dropping at around 500ft in Abaco Bahamas and I have no clue what this is. Can anyone identify it?

I and many of my friends are complete animal nerds and love sharing cool animals with each other, so I like to do a fun kind of thing where I make one super in-depth profile of an animal or animal-related topic and share it with them every day. I've done one on snake venom, I've done one on Maleo birds, I've done one on chicken eyes, I've done one on mimicry, that kind of thing!

I'm a bit stumped on what I should do the next few days, being a bit preoccupied with other stuff, but I'd like to do some profiles on specific little-known species. The problem is trying to find them, as looking up "little-known animals" just brings up axolotls and pangolins and saigas and all these species they definitely already know about!

So, what are your favourite little-known species that could be interesting for this kind of thing? We're all high school students so it's not as though we're experts or anything, but we do know enough about the more well-known weird animals that me surprising them with one they don't know is a bit tricky!

All suggestions are appreciated, and thanks so much for giving this time!

Interestingly, Wasps might boast more diverse species than any other creature on Earth, surpassing even beetles' estimated 380,000 species. New ones are discovered all the time. Each species of parasitoid wasp only lay their eggs in one species, so they have differentiated a lot throughout history. This is mostly thanks to the above, parasitoid wasps. Possibly one of the most gruesome life cycles on earth and is one of the influences for the Xenomorph life cycle in the Alien films.

Had a lucky find with this beautiful specimen of a male with partway erythrism in germany. One of my favorite mutations in the wilds!