Crete’s winter climate is similar to the South of Spain and Cyprus. These regions have the warmest winters in Europe but strangely, whilst South Spain and Cyprus are also winter destinations, there is no winter tourism in Crete between November and April. The climate in winter (see Crete’s weather for November, December, January, February and […]

Long ago a wild animal of Crete, the Cretan wild cat or fourogatos, become a legend: this precious endemic species have been for many years considered extinct. Therefore, about an animal, caught in a trap set by a shepherd in the Omalos area of the Chania region and being very similar to the disappeared species […]

In Crete, a fisherman was very fortunate: he managed to get a grouper (rock perch, Latin name is Epinephelus marginatus), which weighted 10 kilogrammes. A few days ago this spear fisherman caught this fish, which was hiding in a stone hole. With great effort, he coped with the pray, which was worth it. The success […]

These are official and local names of a subspecies of a domestic goat once distributed in the eastern Mediterranean and now preserved only on Crete and several other Greek islands, where special reserves were arranged for them, as well as in Macedonia (Greece), where they were specifically involved in the restoration of these goats. For […]

This summer, a new European temperature record was set on July 2: it was recorded 45.9 degrees Celsius by a weather station in the Mires area near the city of Heraklion on Crete. For more than a week there was a 40-degree heat in the country. According to the weather forecasters, it was on July […]

Several million years ago, the smallest mammoths in the history lived on the island Crete, being even in the adulthood comparable in size to modern baby elephants. This is very surprising and interesting. The adult «Mammuthus creticus» weighted less than 300 kilograms and his height at the withers was about one meter. The first fossils […]