Beak

Imagine the American Great Seal, but with a Dodo. The pudgy, large-beaked, flightless bird, carries one fistful of arrows and an olive branch. The banner carrying the words E Pluribus Unum is drooping sadly out of the greenish beak. Or maybe replace the dodo with a velociraptor. Or a Western Black Rhino. All of these stories have sad endings, with the dodo and velociraptor going extinct thousands of years ago. But extinction isn’t something that happened to the dinos and the dodo birds. The…

Child labor slowly but surely began to fade away and make a positive reaction on the people. The community craved change, so strikes started to beak free to abolish child labor. Children wouldn’t have to put their life in danger just to make a couple of pocket change. Instead of making very young children work a new law got enforced, only 16 and older kids were allowed to work. In my opinion that…

These plastic bottles that the water is put into are recyclable but they are not being recycled enough for it to matter. The bottles that are thrown away end up out in the ocean for a fish to swallow up later, along beaches for a seagull to get its beak stuck in it causing it…

According to the Merced County San Luis Wildlife Refuge website, a quarter of the refuge is covered in wetlands which provides “major wintering ground and migratory stopover of waterfowl, shorebirds, and other water birds.” In spring, the water levels recede and eventually evaporate which allow wildflowers like purple clovers and goldfields to grow. The plethora of flowers create a colorful scenery. Aside from the flowers, the refuge “contains approximately 300 acres of cultivated corn and…

Gigantopithecus → Orangutan Introduction Evolution is the mutation or gradual development in different characteristics of living organisms; this is subject to change varied on the environments current predicament. Although, widely renowned and believed, the theory of evolution is just a theory just like other scientific theories and should be noted that it not about beliefs and is simply a branch of science, because evolution itself is inevitable as organisms are constantly changing and…

In the turtles Latin name we have ‘Serpentina’, which addresses the turtle having a long neck which can stand guard if alarmed with a snake like features of its head. This organism also has a very strong bite with its hooked like beak probably adapted to capture prey with its fast reflexes caught unawares, in fact such a sever strength to its bite have ability to remove human fingers if being handled. Hence, the characteristic in their name ‘Snapping Turtle’, which snaps in rightful…

he had a wig on. At one point he puts his glasses on his head very carefully to not try to mess up his hair. She describes his eyes as if they were like crushed glass, and his lashes were thick and black made up of tar. His nose was like a parrot’s beak and his throat was discolored. Connie describes Arnold Friend as having the balance of a drunken man. She describes his boots as, “He had to bend and adjust his boots. Evidently his feet did not go all the way down: The boots must have been…

Miss Krag read an owl’s book, then she asked to work in partner and come up with few subjects, then with adjectives, or finishers, for example: The black owl has hooked beaks. Miss Krag is promoting the use of uncommon vocabulary words. A more complete sentence is “the true owl has tufts on its head,” or “the owls have soft feathers and sharp talons to catch their pray. This activity is all about challenging children to…

Techniques stayed the same until the 1970s with the breakthrough being the use of a bonding agent holding the brackets to the teeth. The adhesive would be put on the teeth where the brackets would be stuck right on the teeth. The adhesive got rid of the need to wrap the tooth individually. The use of stainless steel instead of gold and silver did not become popular until the 1960s. In the 1970s dentists found the material acceptable, it helped the dentists and the patients with the price of the…

shells. Lastly, their reproduction doesn’t occur rapidly, so every 2 to 3 years, will new Hawksbill be born/hatched. The Hawksbill sea turtle’s real name, is Eretmochelys Imbricata. The Hawksbill sea turtle has a flat body shape, a sharp, curved beak, and a sharp appearance of its shell margins. The typical Hawksbill weight, is 100 to 150 pounds. Its average size, is 24 to 45 inches. Its shell colors can differ, based on the sea temperature. Their only body covering, is it’s protective shell.…