Noah's Ark Online At Planet ARKive

What's an aye-aye? Where would a dugong live? Do you know what quokkas or bonobos are? No idea? Hmm... where have you been all your life?

Just kidding. We'd never even heard of any of them until we visited a very special website called Planet ARKive.

The site is a huge collection of photos, films and facts about living things.

A collection of information like that is known as an archive. So, their name isn't a spelling mistake - Noah's ark was full of animals too - clever eh?!

All of the animals in these pictures are from the website.

This chap is called a crowned lemur. What do you think has caught its eye?

(© Nick Garbutt/naturepl.com)

The scientists who run Planet ARKive want to collect pictures and info about as many of earth's species as they can.

They're especially interested in species which are in danger of becoming extinct, to make sure we have a record of them.

This one's called a Namaqua chameleon.

(© Martin Gabriel/naturepl.com)

PLanet ARKive's also all about teaching people that we need to save these species - just like the Noah story again.

What do you think of this amazing Philippine eagle? Looks pretty fierce to us!

(© Neil Lucas/naturepl.com)

Film and TV companies, wildlife photgraphers and scientists all over the world are helping out by giving ARKive photos and film clips.

Wouldn't you just love to be swimming along with this beautiful green turtle?

(© Brandon Cole/naturepl.com)

Your Ed quite fancies sunning herself on the beach next to this coconut crab... have to make sure I didn't get too close though - those claws look a bit nippy.

(© Pete Oxford/naturepl.com)

You can find out about all sorts of mammals, fish, birds, plants, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates on the site, in the UK and all around the world.

You could search for fungus facts (stinkhorns or pepper pots anyone?)... look up those aye-ayes, dugongs, quokkas or bonobos or find out about this Zanzibar red colobus monkey (© Richard Edwards).

So take a look - it's great.

Planet ARKive is the kids' zone of ARKive, run by a charity called Wildscreen.