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BLACK PANTHER? NO MELANIC LEOPARD
SENSORY ORGANS: VIEW OF OWLS
MIMICRY? NO, I’M IN A BAD MOOD
A RAINBOW TO DISORIENT
DISCOVERED THE FIRST FISH WARM-BLOODED
MANIPULATION
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A HUMP FOR “BOTTLE”
Dromedary (Camelus dromedarius, Linnaeus 1758) is an artiodactyl, family Camelids, widespread in Asia, North Africa and, for human intervention, even in Australia. Not to be confused with its closest relative, Camel (Camelus bactrianus, Linnaeus1758), who lives in the desert and steppe of Central Asia, between Anatolia and Mongolia. The Camel,…
THE BONE EATER
The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus, Linnaeus 1784) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, the only species of the genus Gypaetus. It is a vulture of the Old World and is the largest among those nesting in Europe, with a wingspan between 265 and 285 cm and a…
NOT ALL CATERPILLARS WILL BE BUTTERFLIES …
Cimbex quadrimaculatus (O.F. Müller, 1766) larva – Hymenoptera Symphyta Cimbicidae This larva of about 4-5 cm, belongs to the Order Hymenoptera (wasps, bees and similar), Family of Cimbicidae and do not belongs to the butterflies (Order Lepidoptera). In Europe the largest species is the Cimbex quadrimaculata, also known as…
MALE PREGNANCY
Brazilian giant seahorse (Hippocampus reidi, Ginsburg 1933) Although it may not seem like the seahorse or Hippocampus belongs to the class of Osteichthyes (bony fish) like salmon or the goldfish, so to speak. The genus Hippocampus (family Syngnathidae) includes about 45 species of saltwater fish. What makes seahorse so unique…
THE SURVIVOR
The maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus, Illiger, 1815) is a canid of South America and is the only species of the genus Chrysocyon, a real survivor of the Pleistocene big mammals. Recent studies have shown that the maned wolf is not closely related to the currently popular canids: therefore represent a…
SENSORY ORGANS: DIMPLE THERMOSENSITIVE
Morelia viridis (Schlegel, 1872) also known as green python or python green arboreal. Some snakes family Boidae (boas and pythons) and Crotalidae (rattlesnakes, vipers of the palms) possess a special sensory organs sensitive to heat, the heat-sensitive dimple. These receptors are heat sensitive to infrared radiation of a wavelength of…
THERE IS DESERT AND DESERT
In geography, desert is defined as an area of the earth’s surface in which the precipitations are unlikely to exceed 250 millimeters per year, and the soil is mostly arid, with little or no vegetation. Among the deserts, according to this definition, must also be considered Polar Regions, in addition…
TRILOBITES
Trilobites are a group of marine arthropods of small and medium-sized, lived during the Paleozoic Era disappeared completely at the end of the Permian, about 230 million years ago, although their mass extinction occurred at the end of the Devonian. Trilobites are found in marine deposits of a…
NEITHER FISH NOR FOWL
Bull shark – Carcharias taurus (Rafinesque, 1810) It’s easy to say fish, but in scientific language that term is improper. The so-called “fish” actually fall into two distinct classes, the Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes. So to speak, the same phylogenetic distance that exists between the class of Amphibians with the class…
WINGS OR FINS?
Humboldt penguin (Spheniscus humboldti, Franz Meyen 1834) is mainly spread along the coast of Peru and Chile in the Pacific Ocean. Their ability to fly, like that of all other species of existing penguins dates back to millions of years ago, and has been lost over the years, according to…
Dove Siamo / We are here
