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Seahorses Did you know that seahorses are the only sea animal where the male gives birth instead of the female. What about the fact that seahorses can eat up to 3,000 shrimp per day. While they are sleeping they wrap their tails around seaweed so they don’t float away. Of course, seahorses are very interesting and one of the most interesting animals in marine life. This paper will explain the birth,food,and adaptations of a seahorse. First of all,this is all about a seahorses…

In 1969 two brothers were fishing on the Altamaha River at Clark’s Bluff, they reported seeing an animal that they first thought was a sturgeon. They changed their minds after looking at it for awhile and said it was 10-12 feet long, with a gator snout, and a horizontal tail. They also said the creature had a horizontal ridge on it’s back and it’s skin was grayish in…

NAME: San Martin Worm Salamander IUCN RED LIST STATUS: Endangered INTERNATIONAL STATUS: NATIONAL STATUS: REGIONAL STATUS: DESCRIPTION: (Enough information to identify an unknown amphibian that you have) Pseudoeurycea orchimelas has a rounded snout, small nares, and a postorbital groove. It has two rows of vomerine teeth and enlarged premaxillary teeth. Its head is wider than its body and it does not have parotoid glands present. It has 13 costal grooves with short and slender limbs, four…

lemurs inhabit trees most of the time”. Ringed tailed lemurs love trees because well they are monkeys.They have” black and white rings or stripes on their tail and has gray soft smooth fur, and has a white circle on their stomach.” “They have a black snout and two black circles around there eyes and the rest of the face is white”. Ringed tailed lemurs are very beautiful and are curious to find new things. Lemurs have a interesting lifestyle. Lemurs eat mysterious food and where they get…

look like anteaters and once in a while people mistake them as pigs. Tapirs are hoofed mammals. Hoofed mammals are just mammals with hooves on their feet. One characteristic that they have, and numerous other animals do not, is their short and fleshy snout. Unfortunately, they are not known for their visual acuity and have poor eyesight (www.mnzoo.org/). The tapir diet consists of grasses, plants and fruits. They have been spotted dining under water and eating the aquatic plants. Interestingly,…

presence in the community. Alligators over four feet long are consider the top predators in the ecosystem and are essential in controlling the populations of their prey. Large alligators also construct gator holes. The alligators use their tails and snout to clear out the muck and push away the vegetation. These gator holes serve an imperative role in the ecosystem during the dry season. During the dry season water levels will decrease and shallow water will evaporate and dry up. Thus the vacant…

lakes, and rivers, which is easier for them to search for food―since they’re diet are freshwater shrimps, crayfish, insect larvae, worms, tadpoles, and small fish. Platypuses have a flattish body shape, a soft elongated―other word for unusually long―snout…

The Paleozoic Era, which lasted from about 542 million years ago to 251 million years ago, was a time when different changes existed on Earth. The era began with the breakup of one supercontinent (Pangea) ,and the formation of another. In addition, plants became common, and the first vertebrate animals populated land. The Paleozoic began with the Cambrian Period about 53 million years best known for leading in an explosion of life on Earth. This Cambrian explosion encompassed the evolution of…

horse stall, and I could have watched the chickens strut around their pen for hours. Now I was about to visit the pigs, and I could hardly wait. We approached the enclosure, a large pen made of wooden fence posts and wire. As I watched, a curious snout pushed up against the fence and a pair of bright eyes stared out at me. I grinned and eagerly…

Dinosaurs In The Jurassic Time Period By: David Wallace This project is going to be based on some of the dinosaurs in the Jurassic Time Period and it will give information about that dinosaur as well. Vertebrates taking to the air like the pterosaurs and the first birds. This was the Jurassic Period, 199.6 to 145.5 million years ago, a 54-million-year chunk of the Mesozoic Era. Air, land, or sea, dinosaurs came in all shapes and sizes in many different places around the world. The first…