10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2014
The teeth, being made of durable enamel (not common in fish) are readily discovered. As I was just starting to examine it, a famous paleontologist who happened to be passing by came over to look, and immediately determine that it was a fossil primate tooth, a very rare find indeed. Send this to the fish lady in New Jersey!”
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2015
Flight has evolved multiple times; it has emerged in lizards, snakes, fish, bats, maybe bats again, distant relatives of primates, regular primates, rodents, and a few other unlikely taxa, in a rather half baked fashion, not “true” flight. It has evolved in non-vertebrate animals like insects more than once.
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Critter News
DECEMBER 23, 2009
I understand that they are trying to encourage people to eat fish and other marine life that are not part of a collapsing fishery. If you are eating a fish, you are still eating a living thing. I'm going to try and research other groups to see if there is a group that is more in line with the philosophy I'm trying to follow.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 18, 2016
Primates are exceptional among the mammals, living amphibians (which represent only a small part of the original amphibian family tree) are pretty noisy too. Fish are mostly silent on the matter. One of the key features of birds, and I use the term “key” literally, is vocalization.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2011
This young Western Gull seems to have no idea what to make of this Mola Mola (Ocean Sunfish), or perhaps it prefers the company of unusual fish. But many people who live closely with animals, whether as some of the more open-minded researchers or your average pet owners, have always been well aware that this simply isn’t true.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 17, 2010
Lemurs are a species of primate, and reach sexual maturity between 2 and 3 years old. Fish and Wildlife Service considers all lemurs endangered. The non-profit, private charitable foundation is committed to supporting wildlife and habitat conservation, research, education and animal rescue programs worldwide.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2015
They are large passerines and research has shown them to be an ancient basal offshoot from the passerine tree (at approximately the same time as rockjumpers, were even placed in the same family until quite recently). The rare Rufous Fishing Owl was one of the many species seen by the group here. Between 1990 and 2010, Ghana lost 33.7%
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