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like a dragon going through the skies, Â says Harvard Medical school geneticist George Church. And then European settlers arrived.
Some animals that are afflicted sometimes include cows, snakes, lizards, turtles, dogs, cats and chickens. This past week, a two-headed pig with one eye, was born on Xiao Jintu s pig farm,
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#Top 10 Photos of the Week Todays couch potatoes have a way of turning every disaster into a spectator sport I saw the movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and
I didnt see any tigers or dragons. And then I realised why: theyre crouching and hidden.##
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plans to upgrade its Dragon freighter and Falcon 9 rocket to fly crew as well. Sierra nevada is developing a winged vehicle called the Dream Chaser that resembles a miniature space shuttle.
1.)Mood-Driven Chameleon Wear Yes, most people will go out of their way to avoid having their clothing overtly display their emotional state.
6.)Top 10 Photos February 7, 2011 Today s couch potatoes have a way of turning every disaster into a spectator sport I saw the movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and
I didn t see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they re crouching and hidden.#
A batch of these plant pillows were included on the Spacex Dragon cargo ship which went up to the International Space station last month.
And is a dragonfly a dragon? That's probably a more obvious no. Here is a list of seven other imaginative but potentially misleading animal names:
but it is really a fish that belongs to the Syngnathidae family along with pipefishes and leafy sea dragons.
and yellow bricks with alternating images of dragons and bulls carved in relief. Â A reconstruction of it that incorporates surviving materials is currently in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Vorderasiatisches Museum in Germany.
and dragons representing the holy animals of the weather god Adad and the imperial god Marduk were placed in alternating rows.
and parades with dancers dressed as dragons. Many people make pilgrimages to Confucius'birthplace in Shandong Province on his birthday Sept. 28.
They include the pale pink worm lizard (Amphisbaena vanzolinii) rarely seen aboveground and the brightly-colored tiger leg monkey frog (Phyllomedusa tomopterna) which earns its moniker from its orange-and-black underbelly and limbs.
They have a remarkable knack for causing trouble ranging from eating threatened species like dune lizards
and monitor lizards that humans have introduced. Some cultures hunt flying foxes and consider them a delicacy but residents of the Mortlock Islands do not generally hunt the animals the researchers say.
These spiders usually eat insects or small vertebrates like lizards or frogs. Tree dwellers While most funnel spiders live on the ground a few species on the eastern coast of Australia live in wet forest trees.
Some say it has a tail like a lizard; others say it has no tail at all.
The first were marine reptiles including lizards and snakes. The second were the archosaurs which would give rise to crocodiles dinosaurs and birds.
Most creepily this era is referred sometimes to as the Age of the Cockroaches because roaches'ancient ancestor (Archimylacris eggintoni) was found all across the globe during the Carboniferous.
Crocodiles lizards turtles pythons and other reptiles also thrived during this period. As for vegetation it was limited fairly in many areas.
If he cuts off one head the<a href=http://www. livescience. com/11320-top-10-beasts-dragons-reality-myth. html>mythic monster</a>simply grows back a certain number
This might be acai berry noni fruit dragon fruit rambutan or pomegranate. These might be healthful
This animal had a lizard-like body and a large bony sail#fin on its back that was used probably for thermoregulation.
Despite its lizard-like appearance recent discoveries have concluded that Dimetrodon skulls jaws and teeth are closer to mammal skulls than to reptiles Another genus of Synapsids Lystrosaurus was a small herbivore about 3 feet long (almost 1 meter) that looked something like a cross between a lizard and a hippopotamus.
It had a flat face with two tusks and the typical reptilian stance with legs angled away from the body.
and enhance their phenolic content as well as extending the life of dragon fruit for up to 28 days.
Wild hamsters also eat insects frogs lizards and other small animals. A captive hamster's diet should be at least 16 percent protein and 5 percent fat according to Canadian Federation of Humane Societies.
Fossils of early ichthyosaurs are lizard-like and clearly show their tetrapod ancestry. Their vertebrae indicate they probably swam by moving their entire bodies side to side like modern eels.
Therapsids which were mammal-like reptiles and the more reptilian Archosaurs. In the early Triassic it appeared that the Therapsids would dominate the new era.
and the more reptilian Archosaurs were clearly dominant. Archosaurs had two temporal openings in the skull
and teeth that were more firmly set in the jaw than those of their Therapsid contemporaries.
The terrestrial apex predators of the Triassic were the Rauisuchians an extinct group of Archosaurs.
Another lineage of Archosaurs evolved into true dinosaurs by the mid-Triassic. One Genus coelophysis was bipedal.
By the late Triassic a third group of Archosaurs had branched into the first pterosaurs. Sharovipteryx was a glider about the size of a modern crow with wing membranes attached to long hind legs.
or insectivores and therefore were not in direct competition with the Archosaurs or later dinosaurs.
Crocodiles Can Climb Trees Forget leapin'lizards. In Australia Africa and North america it's climbin'crocodiles you have to worry about.
How Snakes Slither Up Trees Corn snakes enjoy a diet of rodents lizards frogs small birds bats and bird eggs.
We think Changyuraptor may have gone after small prey like birds lizards salamanders fish and mammals Chiappe said.
and leaves they also eat locusts lizards snakes and rodents according to the San diego Zoo. They also eat sand
They're fleet of foot dashing around tree trunks like lizards when spotted. The mantises have flattened mottled bodies that mimic bark moss lichen or dead leaves.
while some lizards and tree frogs simply adhere to surfaces using specialized toe pads which contain tiny hairs that produce a short-range electrostatic force (called a Van der waals force) with a surface's molecules.
Research shows that the large adhesive forces geckos and anoles use to climb is about 10 times greater than
what's necessary to support each animal's body weight. And though the gripping forces people use while climbing ropes or rock walls hasn't been studied research suggests people use two to four times the necessary force to hold on to objects Byrnes said.
Often they eat birds small mammals lizards eggs carrion and other snakes They slither through the wilderness silently following their prey until they are ready to attack.
Dragons fairies and giants oh my The list of top new species also includes some that seem to come out of a fairy tale.
The mother of dragons tree (actually known as Keweesak's Dragon tree) is a gorgeous 40-foot-tall (12 m) monster found in Thailand.
The tree has elongated leaves and creamy white flowers with orange filaments reminiscent of dragon fire. A world away but seemingly from the same tale is Tinkerbella nana an unbelievably small parasitoid wasp with feathery delicate wings.
Finally Australia provides a home for the last new creature on the list the leaf-tailed gecko (Saltuarius eximius.
along with a new golden skink and a frog that live in boulder fields during a National geographic-sponsored expedition.
The nocturnal gecko has large eyes and slender limbs and lurks on rocks and trees during its nighttime hunts.
During my teen years I was involved in the agricultural program at the school working with chickens goats lizards and other animals.
Some monkeys also eat meat in the form of bird's eggs small lizards insects and spiders.
) Last week the company fired chief executive Harry Stylli and Elizabeth Dragon, senior vice-president of research and development. Chief financial officer Paul Hawran and another unnamed executive resigned,
On 8 december, its reusable'Dragon'capsule was launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape canaveral, Florida.
hopes to dock Dragon with the station during its next demonstration launch, scheduled for 2011.
the Dragon craft was due to dock with the space station on 10 october. The launch saw one engine fail,
Virgin births sometimes occur among hammerhead sharks turkeys boa constrictors and komodo dragons. But nearly all animals engage in sex at some point in their lives.
Just Like Lizards'Tailssome lizards and amphibians have the ability to regrow severed tails or limbs--in fact the blue-tailed skink abandons its tail intentionally to distract predators.
But humans despite our amazing advancements in the field of spying on each other are thought typically to lack this superpower-like ability.
But in fact we're more like blue-tailed skinks than you'd think! Back in 2010 a woman named Deepa Kulkarni lost the tip of her finger to an altercation with a slammed door.
-archosaur-You seem to be operating under a misconception. You are right in that cutting down trees does not release CO2
but you miss archosaur's point. Cutting down forests is carbon-neutral; it doesn't release carbon.
Our bodies therefore reflect a continuously jury-rigged system with echoes of fish of fruit fly of lizard and mouse.
anything inherently dangerous which includes venomous animals (snakes lizards) huge animals (hippos elephants) and animals that would prefer to murder you than let you pat them on the head (big cats bears baboons) are outlawed all.
and after spending over $260000000 he met with complete failure a failure that glares like a death dragon from the old discarded machinery
#'Chameleon'Vine Looks like Whatever Tree It Climbschameleons aren t the only species that excel at mimicry as biology professor Ernesto Gianoli discovered in Chile s temperate rainforests.
These results indicate a shift from the standard bird knee-driven bipedal locomotion to a more hip-driven locomotion typical of crocodilians (the only other extant archosaur group) mammals
Paris-based Gecko Biomedical has licensed the technology and plans to bring it to market in Europe first
If the new glue passes Gecko Biomedical's further testing and makes its way into hospitals it could be the first such glue that works under the tough conditions in the heart.
#Feeding by tourists compromises health of already-endangered iguanas, study findsfeeding wildlife is an increasingly common tourist activity
but a new study published online today by the journal Conservation Physiology shows that already-imperilled iguanas are suffering further physiological problems
and endoparasitic infection rates between northern Bahamian rock iguanas inhabiting tourist-visited islands and those living on non-tourist-visited islands.
They took blood and faecal samples from both male and female iguanas over two research trips in 2010 and 2012.
The Bahamian rock iguana is among the world's most endangered lizards due to habitat loss introduced mammals illegal hunting threats related to increased tourism and smuggling for the illicit pet trade.
While the two groups of iguanas did not differ in body condition indicators for dietary nutrition differed.
Both male and female iguanas from the islands frequently visited by tourists showed notably different levels of glucose potassium and uric acid.
Male iguanas from the tourist areas differed in levels of calcium cholesterol cobalt copper magnesium packed cell volume selenium and triglycide concentrations.
Meanwhile female iguanas from tourist areas differed significantly in ionized calcium. Among both males and females from tourist areas there was a 100%endoparasitic infection rate.
Tourist-fed iguanas also displayed atypical loose faeces. Dr Knapp says Both sexes on visited islands consume food distributed by tourists
although male iguanas are more aggressive when feeding and eat more provisioned food. Consequently they may be impacted more by provisioning with unnatural foods
Iguanas on visited islands predominantly eat grapes that are provided by tour operators on a daily basis. The higher concentrations of glucose found in tourist-fed iguanas may be a result of being fed too many sugary fruits such as grapes.
An overabundance of grapes in those iguanas'diets could also explain the excessive diarrhea observed during the study.
Both male and female iguanas from the tourist areas showed notably lower levels of potassium than the non-visited iguanas.
The male tourist-fed iguanas have raised cholesterol concentrations which may indicate the introduction of meat to their diet.
Similarly the higher uric acid levels in male and female iguanas could be the result of animal protein such as ground beef being fed to iguanas by tourists.
Furthermore food provisioning by tourists on beaches has encouraged the iguanas to spend disproportionate amounts of time foraging in the area rather than further in the island resulting in higher levels of marine life being ingested.
Further plant community dynamics can be disrupted by changed feeding patterns in the iguanas. Dr Knapp says The complete restriction of feeding by tourists may not be a realistic option.
Instead wildlife managers could approach manufacturers of pelleted iguana foods and request specially-formulated food to mitigate the impact of unhealthy food.
and discourage references to feeding iguanas on advertisements. We urge serious discussions among wildlife managers
and 2011 Princeton graduate Ryan Huynh--challenges predictions that higher global temperatures will result in the widespread extinction of cold-blooded forest creatures particularly lizards.
So far only a gecko and a caecilian a legless amphibian are known from this area as having a similarly limited distribution Because of their limited distribution
#Climate change may have little impact on tropical lizards: Study contradicts predictions of widespread extinctiona new Dartmouth College study finds human-caused climate change may have little impact on many species of tropical lizards contradicting a host of recent studies that predict their widespread extinction in a rapidly warming planet.
The findings appear in the journal Global Change Biology. Most predictions that tropical cold-blooded animals especially forest lizards will be hard hit by climate change are based on global-scale measurements of environmental temperatures
which miss much of the fine-scale variation in temperature that individual animals experience on the ground said the article's lead author Michael Logan a Ph d. student in ecology and evolutionary biology.
and used those measurements to project the effects of climate change on the running abilities of four populations of lizard from the Bay Islands of Honduras. Field tests on the captured lizards
Previous studies have suggested that open-habitat tropical lizard species are likely to invade forest habitat
The overall results suggest that global-scale predictions generated using low-resolution temperature data may overestimate the vulnerability of many tropical lizards to climate change.
Whereas studies conducted to date have made uniformly bleak predictions for the survival of tropical forest lizards around the globe our data show that four similar species occurring in the same geographic region differ markedly in their vulnerabilities to climate warming the authors wrote.
Considering that these populations occur over extremely small geographic ranges it is possible that many tropical forest lizards
and the particular focus of the study higher densities of a native species of gecko Lygodactylus keniensis.
Unexpectedly the area between two close glades had some of the lowest gecko lizard densities and tree growth rates of the entire study.
He has documented many ways that animals in the wild from lizards and lemurs to ants use various parts of their bodies to avoid hard landings on the ground.
Furthermore the New zealand Kunzea species provide an important habitat for a wealth of endemic geckos orchids
Co-evolution benefits Australias martu people and wildlifeaustralia's Aboriginal Martu people hunt kangaroos and set small grass fires to catch lizards as they have for at least 2000 years.
The new study found that small grass fires set by Martu to reveal sand monitor lizard holes created a patchy mosaic of five stages of vegetation at different post-fire ages increasing
and burning to expose lizard burrows. As people spend more time hunting in a region kangaroos densities actually increase but only up to a threshold after
An earlier study by the same researchers showed Martu-set fires increase sand monitor lizard populations despite the negative impact of hunting.
Martu usually women set small fires in spinifex grass--the dominant vegetation--during wintertime hunts to expose burrows occupied by 2-foot-long sand monitor lizards or sand goannas
It's like sand monitor lizard. Martu men drive along dirt four-wheel-drive tracks to different hunting areas.
It's just that the Martu tend to hunt kangaroos in the same areas where they burn the grass to hunt lizards.
and recorded the amount of time they spent hunting for different things (including lizards and kangaroo) and foraging for bush fruits Codding says.
The Scansoriopteryx should rather be seen as an early bird whose ancestors are to be found among tree-climbing archosaurs that lived in a time well before dinosaurs.
Their findings validate predictions first made in the early 1900's that the ancestors of birds were small tree-dwelling archosaurs
A leaf-tailed gecko hatched June 2. The leaf-tailed gecko is a large nocturnal gecko from Madagascar threatened with extensive habitat loss from cattle grazing logging agriculture and collection for the pet trade.
Three loggerhead shrike chicks hatched in Mid-may at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute In front Royal Va. Loggerhead shrikes also called butcher birds are songbirds that hunt small animals by impaling them on thorns or barbed wire.
Also on the list are a gecko that fades into the background in its native Australia
the shrimp Liropus minusculus with its phantasmagoric appearance and the gecko which bears a disturbing likeness to some imaginary monster.
Mother of Dragons Dracaena kaweesakii Location: Thailand Sounding like something out of Game of Thrones and standing 12 meters (nearly 40 feet) tall it's hard to believe the dragon tree went unnoticed this long.
Leaf-tailed Gecko: Look Hard to See This One Saltuarius eximius Location: Australia It's not easy to spot this gecko which has an extremely wide tail that is employed as part of its camouflage.
With longer limbs a more slender body and larger eyes than other Saltuarius species this one has mottled a coloration that allows it to blend in with its surroundings.
Native to rain forests and rocky habitats this gecko is a bit of a night owl. It is found on the vertical surfaces of rocks
Surveys of similar habitat near the area where this species was found did not reveal additional populations so this may be a rare species. The gecko was discovered on rocky terrain in isolated rain forests of the Melville Range of eastern Australia.
and predates the Noronha skink which is endemic to the archipelago. Understanding how the cattle egret colonized Brazil is crucial for the better understanding of dispersal patterns of bird populations
and can hide by changing its colour like a chameleon. In safe environments the bumblebees subsequently chose to feed from flowers at random
#Spacexâ##s Dragon headed to space station to create astronaut farmersenter the Dragon takes on a whole new meaning this month as Spacex's Dragon capsule heads to the International Space station for its third commercial resupply mission
During the Spacex-3 mission the Dragon capsule not only will deliver cargo to the orbiting laboratory
The research does not end with the berthing of the Dragon. The capsule will be loaded with many samples
They often evade discovery by running to the opposite side of the tree before being noticed an escape tactic also seen in many tree dwelling lizards.
But in a first-of-its-kind study on wild green anole lizards biologists at the University of California Riverside have discovered that the link between muscle function
A lot of people study anoles and a lot of people remove muscles and study them in a lab as opposed to measuring the muscles in the animal as it's moving.
modulation and decoupling Foster surgically inserted electrodes into the forelimbs and hind limbs of seven male green anole lizards.
She then tracked the lizard movements on a flat and 90-degree incline and a broad and narrow perch using high-speed video to record movements
while the lizard movements changed considerably when they were running along narrow perches (compared to broad perches) there were few significant changes in muscle activity.
And when the lizards were running up an incline they noted more changes in muscle activity than movement.
Though these 2-inch-long green anoles weigh just 5 grams--about the same as a U s. nickel--their muscles work the same way as every other vertebrate.
The study found that muscle activity in the green anoles was most consistent on broad vertical surfaces such as tree trunks suggesting that
Orange underbellies of female lizards signal fertilityaustralian lizards are attracted to females with the brightest orange patches--but preferably not too large--on their underbelly according to research published in the open-access journal Frontiers in Ecology
Lake Eyre dragon lizards Ctenophorus maculosus are found exclusively in salt deserts in southern Australia where they feed on dead insects blown onto the salt crust.
or non-receptive--were decorated with paints closely matched to the natural colors of the female lizard.
As natural lizard color reflects ultraviolet (UV) light the researchers used specialized UV-reflecting paints to accurately mimic female coloration.
and warding off predatory birds who might catch sight of the vulnerable female lizard. Story Source:
This is especially true for those studying extinct crocodiles or other Archosaurian taxa. Dinets collaborated with Adam Britton from Charles darwin University in Australia and Matthew Shirley from the University of Florida.
More of his research can be found in his book Dragon Songs. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of Tennessee.
These bats of which there are almost 200 species eat a variety of foods including insects frogs lizards fruit nectar and even blood.
Insects frogs lizards fruit nectar and even blood. The bats'skulls of today reflect this dietary diversity.
Each juice contained local Malaysian fruit such as Chiku Kedondong Pulasan Dragon fruit and Star fruit. After creating 30 different recipes seven smoothies were chosen for the study each containing up to 50 per cent underutilised fruit. 80 volunteers were recruited by Phd student Tan Kok Wei who is running the study
if someone were trying to sell your kids banana-flavored heroin in a vial they could suck (instead of having to chase the dragon),
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