Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-19
What Animal Lives Where Maps the World’s Recorded Wildlife
An animal-and-place explorer that uses GBIF occurrence records to show which species have been recorded in each country and where a given animal has been found.
Why it surfacedThe site turns nearly 2.96 billion observations across 250 countries and territories into a browsable biodiversity index, with searches that work in both directions: place to animal, or animal to place. It also explicitly warns readers to distinguish recorded sightings from resident populations—a small but important piece of scientific discipline.
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The Song Resumes After the Story
August 19’s newborn domains include a Hawaiʻi road-trip radio that resumes each song after a GPS-triggered story, an offline Chattanooga recovery map, a 100 KiB operating system running Doom, and an archive of 169,588 Discord roleplay messages.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-19 Domain Arrivals issue.