Komodo dragon

• Procoptodon Goliah (picture 1) – The Procoptodon Goliah was a part of the Sthenurines (short faced Kangaroo) This animal had a very short, deep ‘brachycephalic’ skull and a low jaw. The large Kangaroo stood at around 2 metres tall with a mass of around 200 kg. Tim Flannery an Australian mammologist, palaeontologist, and environmentalist proposed that its closest extant relative is the tiny banded hare wallaby (Lagostrophus fasciatus) this small animal only weighs 2kg in weight and is about 15…

The day after we arrived in Georgia we went to the Atlanta, Georgia zoo and saw there many species of animals. There were so many animals there that it would take to long to label them but here are some of the animals I saw. I saw pandas, komodo dragons, gorillas, giraffes, zebras, tigers, primates, sunbears, and many more species of animals. The next day I went to the Georgia aquarium which is supposedly one of the biggest and best aquariums in the world. At the aquarium I watched a dolphin…

Lizards belong in a large class of animals called Reptilia, which contains over 8225 species. Reptiles are animals that are ectothermic (cold-blooded) vertebrates that breathe air. Most reptiles are oviparous (egg-laying) animals with the exception of some ovoviviparous (live-bearing) constrictor snakes and vipers, as well as a few lizard species. They are also theropods, vertebrate animals that have four limbs or are descended from animals with four limbs. Deciphering the lizard classification…

made at Wolo Sege or other undiscovered sites, were used to butcher the small elephants. The use of fire and Stegodon bones at Liang Bua cave suggests H. floresiensis ate cooked foods. The island was inhabited by giant rats and large lizards like Komodo dragons, however we have no evidence to date as to the consumption of these animals. The remains of sea foods are missing from the articles on H. floresiensis and living by the sea would indicate some consumption of sea foods, despite the fact we…

Pre-Benchmark Essay Rough Draft Imagine if you were a slave and if you were not acting as your owner wanted they pulled out teeth and fingernails.That's the reality for exotic pets in our present day. There is somewhere over a million exotic animals in the U.S. only a few thousands are in zoos. When I say exotic I mean animals from other countries, mostly wild. Such animals would be tigers, lions and other big cats. Or other animals from other countries like a platypus from Australia, or a…