Jake Delhomme would live nowhere else.
Life is lived in Papua New Guinea in a way that it is lived nowhere else on the planet".
Remote islands have many terrestrial endemics for instance, more than 90 percent of the plants and land birds of the Hawaiian Islands live nowhere else.
It is almost as if the animals in any given sample were mostly endemic, that is, species that live nowhere else, as is often found on Pacific and Caribbean isles.
Yet despite the harsh conditions, the páramos are the world's most diverse high-altitude ecosystem, home to an estimated 5,000 species 3,000 of which live nowhere else on Earth.
The rocky string of islands and their waters host some 2,000 animal and plant species, including many that live nowhere else, in an isolated cradle of diversity that attracts modern biologists for the same reasons the Galápagos once enraptured Charles Darwin.
Though there are adults on the island who were born and educated here, and have lived nowhere else for any length of time, no one is an Ascension Islander by right.In the early 2000s, this looked like it might change.
"It shows Africa wasn't this strange lost world of dinosaurs that lived nowhere else," said Dr Lamanna.
Plants and animals that live nowhere else in America thrive in abundance – from strangler fig trees to the elusive Florida panther.
