There are more than 2‚000 different types of jellyfish. Approximately 70 can hurt people with the box jellyfish being the most dangerous. Scientists believe that there could be as many as 300‚000 different species of jellyfish yet to be discovered” (Lehnardt). The box jellyfish is one of the most well know jellyfish‚ it also happens to be the deadliest. The most deadly jellyfish is named the Australian box jellyfish (as seen in the picture). “Box jellyfish‚ named for their body shape‚ have tentacles
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000 years ago. This even is when megafaunal animals went extinct. This event saw the extinction of more than 178 species. Megafaunals are defined as “A term generally used to refer to the largest animals present within an ecosystem‚ most often used with respect to the array of large-bodied species which suffered extinction during the Quaternary. A strict definition refers to animal species weighing more than 44kg(Surovell‚3)”. Megafaunals lived around the time of the ice age. Megafaunal animals include
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Adorable Koala Koalas are pretty amazing animals. There eating style is very funny and silly. The way they care for themselves are very interesting. Koalas live in hot places. Plus‚ they are very cute animals. Koalas live in Australia‚ which is a very hot place. Koalas live in a vast interior desert wilderness called the Outback. Honestly‚ people mistake Koalas ans call them"Koala Bears" which is totally not true. Koalas are more related to wombats‚ and kangaroos. This is because all three of those
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Komodo Dragons have undergone an interesting history as they evolved from their reptile ancestors.The giant marine reptile species that lived some 60 million years ago until the end of the age of the dinosaurs. The name Varanus Komodoensis was first given to this dragon reptile by Dutch scientist Peter A Ouwens in 1912. This A large species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo‚ Rinca‚ Flores‚ Gili Motang‚ and Padar. An adult Komodo dragon usually weighs around 70 kg (150 lb)‚ although
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Whaling Countries all over the world hunt whales. People are killing whales‚ or whaling‚ commercially and for products. So many whales die‚ that they will soon become extinct. Some countries‚ according to www.abc.net.au‚ involved in whaling are Japan‚ Norway‚ Greenland‚ Russia‚ USA‚ Iceland‚ South Korea‚ Indonesia‚ Canada‚ and St. Vincent. www.wwf.org states whaling started since the 11th century to present day. According to www.hsi.org‚ over 1000 whales die a year. If nothing is
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the inexplicable thylacine and it is set in the wilderness of Tasmania. The story is told in third person‚ and it is in present tense it is a simple story. Leigh’s central character‚ Martin Davis is sent to Tasmania to harvest a rare and elusive species he is hired by a pharmaceutical company to hunt the last thylacine cat‚ an animal many believe to be extinct. His journey brings into his life three people he doesn’t want to care for‚ but does when they are rudely taken from him‚ he becomes even
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combination of black and white. This is useful to help him avoid attacks by predators. Pints on the body of this zebra classified disruptive color‚ where if the number of many then the color can blur the eye. Based on its habitat‚ there are three species of zebras including mountain zebra‚ zebra plains‚ and primitive zebra. Zebra is believed to be from South Africa‚ West Africa and East Africa. Its natural habitat is located in savanna and steppe grasslands to areas on the outskirts of the forest
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Bio 10 11 September 2015 Biodiversity Writing Assignment California Red- Legged Frog The California red- legged frog (Rana draytonii) was the threatened species and was found in the western United States. More than seventy percent of California red- legged frogs have been eliminated from their former extent. Nowadays‚ this breed is still popular in the Bay area but isn’t much like before (USFWS 2002). In nature‚ California red- legged frogs are 1.5 to 5 inches in length. Adult females
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A niche is a species and their position in their habitat or ecosystem‚ having a specialized strength that no other species have or does. Why it’s important in biodiversity? Species have different preys and predators because how diverse the energy web is. An example between two organisms and their position in their habitat would be the relationship between a sea anemone and a hermit crab. The sea anemone can either be a predator trying to catch prey when walking into the mouth. As hermit crabs can
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What if there was a frog you weren’t used to seeing in any creek or river you’ve ever visited? Well‚ there is a particular species of frog that has a Biologist and his colleagues in awe. Our journey takes place in the country of Peru in South America‚ where biologist‚ Kyle Summers has studied and fawned over a special species of frog. The Ranitomeya imitator. What exactly makes these frogs so special? The Ranitomeya imitator is not only a mimic to other toxic frogs‚ such as themselves‚ but the only
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