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Há 1 dia · Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads (cranial kinesis).
Há 2 dias · Largest and heaviest animals. The largest animal currently alive is the blue whale. The maximum recorded weight was 190 tonnes for a specimen measuring 27.6 metres (91 ft), whereas longer ones, up to 33 metres (108 ft), have been recorded but not weighed.
Há 3 dias · A strikingly similar bauplan was later obtained by two other large bodied marine amniote groups, mosasaurs and archaeocete whales. Direct evidence for its diet exists for the medium-sized Cymbospondylus buchseri from Switzerland, which was found with its stomach contents exclusively consisting of hooks belonging to soft-bodied ...
Há 1 dia · Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. [1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks ( ichnites ), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces ( coprolites ), palynomorphs and chemical residues.
Há 1 dia · Paleobiota of the Chinle Formation. The Chinle Formation is an extensive geological unit in the southwestern United States, preserving a very diverse fauna of Late Triassic (primarily Norian -age) animals and plants. This is a list of fossilized organisms recovered from the formation.
Há 5 dias · walrus. Also called: morse. Related Topics: Atlantic walrus. Pacific walrus. On the Web: Smithsonian Ocean - Walrus: An Arctic Mammal in Peril? (June 01, 2024) walrus, ( Odobenus rosmarus ), huge, seal-like mammal found in Arctic seas.
Há 1 dia · Variegated golden frog ( Mantella baroni) in the Ranomafana National Park of Madagascar. A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura [1] (coming from the Ancient Greek ἀνούρα, literally 'without tail').
