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AHEAD Andy Warhol started to become successful in the late 40’s creating illustrations for Glamour magazines. By the early 60’s Warhol began to be known for his comic like painting of subjects derived from advertisements. Subjects like the Campbell soup can or Coca-Cola. Warhol was rather shy and always observed, he would carry a camera to capture objects or famous people. Later he would turn those photographs into silk screen prints and reproduce them as his iconic pop art canvases (Marilyn…

When people think of sharks, many think of a vicious killing monster that needs to be avoided at all costs, and this creates an irrational fear that enters the minds of the general populace. In an attempt to educate the public about this growing threat to sharks, a threatened species, the practice of cage-diving has started to become more popular. The mentality that sharks are evil beings has been spread far and wide through many mediums such as way of mouth, movies, and viral pictures/videos,…

different, since it still incorporates beasts ranging from the fire-defying salamander to the intelligent macaque. However, in other ways, this bestiary diverges from previous ones. Henderson’s bestiary reintroduces the medieval unicorn as the goblin shark, urging his readers to closely attend to relatively unknown yet striking creatures rather than to imaginary beings. Maintaining the mystical elements of human imagination, which was prevalent in the…

exist, the Megalodon. Evidence says that it is alive today. Many sightings, photos, and some videos of what people say, is a monster shark or a Megalodon. It had no real reason to go extinct because it has plenty of food, its environment is still clean and had no hazards that would kill it, and nothing could kill this top of the line predator. Megalodon is a shark that weighs over 20 tons and is up to 60 feet long fully grown. The fact that it could still be alive is both amazing and scary.…

Squids and Octopuses are two very similar and incredible sea creatures who have lived on this earth for millions of years. Squids have gone down in history as fierce predators who are known to have taken down mighty predators like sharks as well as ships, in the 1700’s, giving them the description of giant sea creatures called Krakens. Octopuses have been known as great escape artists, with the ability to squeeze through smallest holes and crevices to escape predators at any given time. Both of…

As well as dietary preference there are other obvious differences such as size, colour, fin shape, saddle pattern and eye spot. An example of a killer whale ecotype is the New Zealand type which specialise in stingrays. The stingrays possess a spine in their tail which can kill. The killer whales have found a way to overcome this, by inverting…

The water moccasin, North America's only venomous water snake, has a distinctive blocky, triangular head; a thick body; and a dangerous bite. Common names include variants on water moccasin, swamp moccasin, black moccasin, cottonmouth, gapper, or simply viper.Water Moccasins reach 30 to 48 inches, occasionally up to 74 inches. The back is dark olive or black, the belly is paler. The snout is always pale, and there is usually a dark vertical line by each nostril.Water Moccasins are primarily…

My extinct animal is the megalodon. Not only was the megalodon the biggest prehistoric shark that ever lived,it was the largest marine predator in the history of the planet, vastly outweighing both the modern Great White Shark and ancient reptiles like Liopleurodon and Kronosaurus. Megalodon had a diet befitting an apex predator, feasting on the prehistoric whales that swam the earth's oceans during the Pliocene and Miocene epochs, but also chowing down on dolphins, squids, fish, and even giant…

rookeries in autumn and winter, sharks avoid the surface and use water to 50 meters in depth which is consistent with a silhouette-based hunting strategy. White sharks also exhibit a broad depth distribution offshore and remain there for the spring and summer (4). White Sharks typically spend their day in temperatures between 15C to 24C (59F to 75F). However, as they begin to hunt their prey, they dive down deep into the ocean and slowly rise as they look for food. Sharks have been noted to…

there may be a bull shark population on the rise. In late summer of 2015, scientists released roughly a dozen bull sharks into Lake Ontario in order to curb the grass carp numbers. The grass carp, an invasive species to the area, has caused many problems to fishers and the endemic species of the Great Lakes, not to mention upsetting the natural order of the ecosystem. The plan was to release several bull sharks in order to lower the amount of carp. Bull sharks are the only sharks that are…