The very similar Atlas Flycatcher ( Ficedula speculigera ), of the mountains of north west Africa was formerly classed as subspecies of the Pied Flycatcher.

Atlas Pied Flycatcher or Atlas Flycatcher ( Ficedula speculigera ) is a bird in the an Old World flycatcher family, one of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers ; it is endemic as a breeding species to North-west Africa.

The taxonomic status of ' the Atlas Flycatcher ' assessed from DNA sequence analysis.

* Atlas ( mythology ), a Titan who bore the spheres of the heavens ; inspiring the widely used image of a man carrying a celestial sphere on his back or shoulders ( also known as Atlas Telamon or " enduring Atlas ")

* Atlas ( moon ), a moon of Saturn

* Atlas ( crater ), a prominent impact crater on the Moon

* Atlas ( star ), a triple star system in the Pleiades cluster

* Atlas ( anatomy ), the topmost cervical vertebra of the spine

* Atlas Bear ( Ursus arctos crowtheri ), an extinct subspecies of the Brown Bear

* Atlas beetle ( Chalcosoma atlas ), a rhinoceros beetle species

* Atlas Moth ( Attacus atlas ), a large saturniid moth species

* Atlas Turtle ( Colossochelys atlas ), a prehistoric giant tortoise, formerly in the genus Testudo

* Atlas ( topology ), a collection of local coordinate charts in mathematics

* Atlas Computer ( Manchester ) ( 1962 – 1971 ), an early computer built at the University of Manchester

** Titan ( computer ), also known as the Atlas 2, its successor

* The Atlas ( video game ), a Japan-exclusive strategy video game

* Atlas ( album ), an album by Mexican electro-pop band Kinky

* Atlas ( band ), a rock band from Christchurch, New Zealand

* Atlas ( film ), a 1961 movie by Roger Corman

* Atlas Games ( company ), a publisher of role-playing and card games

* The Atlas ( novel ), by American author William T. Vollmann

* Atlas ( magazine ), Turkish monthly magazine on geography, environment, history and culture

* Atlas Comics ( 1950s ), the company that evolved into Marvel Comics

* Atlas ( comics series ), a comic book series by Dylan Horrocks

* Atlas ( DC Comics ), a fictional character published by DC Comics

* Atlas Cedar, a cedar tree sometimes included in Cedrus libani, sometimes treated as species C. atlantica

Peter Raven, past President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ), states in the foreword to their publication AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment: " We have driven the rate of biological extinction, the permanent loss of species, up several hundred times beyond its historical levels, and are threatened with the loss of a majority of all species by the end of the 21st century.

Deer are widely distributed, with indigenous representatives in all continents except Antarctica and Australia, though Africa has only one native species, the Red Deer, confined to the Atlas Mountains in the northwest of the continent.

Examples include the Barbary Macaque, the Atlas Bear ( Africa's only species of bear ; now extinct ), the Barbary Leopard, the Barbary stag, Barbary Sheep, the Barbary Lion ( extinct in the wild ), the Atlas Mountain Badger, the North African Elephant ( extinct ), the African Aurochs ( extinct ), Cuvier's Gazelle, the Northern Bald Ibis, Dippers, the Atlas mountain viper, the Atlas Cedar, the European Black Pine, and the Algerian Oak.

Habitat for 187 species ( indigenous and non-indigenous ) according to the Atlas of NSW Wildlife.

Some areas have been reforested since 1860 with a variety of hardwood trees ( such as holm oaks and beeches ) as well as coniferous species, such as Atlas cedars and larches.

Represented species include Giant Centipede, Leafcutter Ant, Flower Mantis, Vietnamese walking stick, Atlas Beetle, American Burying Beetle, Sunburst Diving Beetle, Water Scorpion, Brown Widow Spider, Brown Recluse Spider, Cobalt blue tarantula, Texas brown tarantula, and Egyptian Fattail scorpion.

Quedenfeldtia is a small genus of attractive gecko species, commonly known as Atlas Day Geckos.

In the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, it occurs at 1, 370 – 2, 200 m ( 4, 500 – 7, 200 ft ) in pure forests or mixed with Abies species and Juniperus thurifera.

Found in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco with a small population, of unknown origin, in Gibraltar, the Barbary macaque is one of the best-known Old World monkey species.

The " Atlas of Rüppell's Travels in Northern Africa " ( 1826 – 30 ) included an ornithological section by Cretzschmar describing around thirty new species, including Meyer's Parrot, Nubian Bustard, Goliath Heron, Streaked Scrub Warbler and Cretzschmar's Bunting.

Cirsium vulgare ( Spear Thistle ) is a species of the genus Cirsium, native throughout most of Europe ( north to 66 ° N, locally 68 ° N ), western Asia ( east to the Yenisei Valley ), and northwestern Africa ( Atlas Mountains ).

* Atlas of Living Australia species page, with distribution map

It also inhabits the Atlas Mountains region between Morocco and Tunisia in northwestern Africa, being the only species of deer to inhabit Africa.

In the constellation Cerberus introduced by Johannes Hevelius in 1687, Cerberus is sometimes substituted for the " branch from the tree of the golden apples " fetched by Atlas from the garden of the Hesperides.

Oeagrus is given as the father of Orpheus with mother Calliope ( sometimes Apollo is given as the father ), and he is described as " a Thracian wine-god, who was himself descended from Atlas.

She is sometimes called the wife of Atlas and mother of the Pleiades and the Hyades ( more usually the offspring of Pleione ).

The variety depressus ( sometimes considered a separate species, Anacyclus depressus ), called mat daisy or Mount Atlas daisy, is grown as a spring-blooming, low-water ornamental.

The Atlas bear ( Ursus arctos crowtheri ) is an extinct subspecies of the brown bear, which is sometimes classified as a distinct species.

However, she sometimes sharply differed from Buckley, for example by disagreeing with the magazine's review of Rand's novel, Atlas Shrugged.

The Rocketdyne-powered Atlas-Centaur was sometimes referred to as a 2 < sup > 1 </ sup >/< sub > 2 </ sub > stage launch vehicle because the Atlas 1st stage ( in most cases ) jettisoned the twin-thrust-chamber booster engine prior to the completion of the 1st stage burn.

The eastern portion of the H Street Corridor is sometimes referred to as the Atlas District, part of a neighborhood branding campaign centered around the revitalized Atlas Theater, now called the Atlas Performing Arts Center.

The ' Atlas do Visconde de Santarém ' known sometimes in English as the Viscount of Santarém's world atlas is an important compendium lithographic reproductions of medieval European maps and navigation charts.