Monotreme
Today there is only 5 living species of monotreme they are; the duck-billed platypus and four species of echidna aka piny anteaters. They are about 1 or 2 feet and can weight around 3-4 pounds, are all found in Australia and new guinea. Monotremes have some similarity of reptiles and bird because they lay these tiny eggs less than 2 cm egg that has a shell. however they do produce milk to feed its young. Mnotreme have no teeth but however they do have a single bone in their lower jaw, 3 middle ear bones, high metabolic rates, and hair. Their diet consist of insect larvae, shrimp, frogs, and fish eggs.
Duck- billed platypus
they weight around 22kg for females and 9 kg for males. they have about 800 hairs per square millimeter. That is denser than the fur of the river otter or a polar bear. The thermal qualities of the fur allow the platypus allow the platypus to withstand cold. They have four legs it walks on land and they shuffle like a lizard. the front feet have these large webs of skin that helps them "swim" in water and on land if they are fold back these sharp claws will appear (they help them dig burrows) when swimming their eyes, ear, and nostrils are closed for that they use its electro-sensitive bill locate food. That makes them an excellent hunter at night or in murky water!
MarsupialsAnother group of mammals, they give live birth at a very early stage (the baby) from there they are nurtured (given milk) and they grow in their mother pouch they will develop eyes, ears and fur. like other mammals it is covered with hair. they live in forest, plains, and deserts. they include kangaroos, koalas, wallabies, wombats, bandicoots, and oposssums. (kangaroos are the largest marsupials).
Koalathey have soft, wool-like fur that are gray above and white below. they do resemble to a bear but is a marsupial,they weight around 30 pounds and on average they grow about 2 feet. they can live for up to 17 years. they like to live in eucalyptus forest, coastal island,and low woodland. they sleep for 16 hours a day (lazy) and they rather live on their own. they eat tree bark and leaves(eucalyptus). The breeding season is around September- march during that time they increase their activity and sounds to attract males, female can start breeding around their 3rd or 4th year they usually produce one offspring each year. the only only drinks the mothers milk for six weeks! and remains in the pouch slowly growing.
Placental Mammals
they are a very diverse group with nearly 4000 species mostly rodents and rats, they include other forms such as whales, elephants, shrews, armadillos,pets such as cats and dogs, sheep, cattle, and of course us Humans.
Dog
Polar bears
Polar Bears are large, meat-eating bears who are well-adapted for life in their frozen Arctic environment. They are powerful swimmers who hunt seals in the water. Polar bears can run in bursts up to 25 mph. they hunt and catch their prey in the water, often many miles from land. They are fierce predators who eat mostly seals (and some walruses and other marine mammals). A polar bear's stomach can hold up to 150 pounds. Polar bears don't drink water. hen pregnant, females (called sows) build snow dens in which they spend the winter; they usually give birth to twin cubs. Male polar bears (called boars) are active all year. Polar Bears live in icy Arctic areas of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Norway, and Russia. They spend much of their time swimming in frigid seas.
PandaGiant pandas are white with black patches around the eyes, ears, shoulders, chest, legs, and feet.The largest pandas grow to be about 250 pounds They are about 5.25 to 6 feet long. The average adult male panda grows to be about 3 feet tall at the shoulder and weighs about 220 pounds.The average adult female panda grows to be about 2.5 feet tall at the shoulder and weighs about 180 pounds . Pandas have the most specialized diet of any of the bears. Their diet is almost exclusively two species of bamboo ,arrow and umbrella bamboo. Pandas eat about 40 pounds of food each day.Pandas have very thick, oily, woolly fur that keeps them warm in their cold, can live to be 35 years old.Pandas have a very slow reproductive rate which contributes to their declining numbers,Male and female giant pandas mate in the spring, attracting each other with calls and odors. The giant panda seems to have evolved during the late Pliocene or early Pleistocene, roughly two to three million years ago. part of the Ursidae family.
Human/Homo sapiens- i think that you guy have captured and visit our planet to know well enough about us.
Vampire bat
Vampire Bats are small flying mammals. They give birth to live young and nourish them with milk. They are nocturnal; they are most active at night and sleep during the day hanging upside-down. Vampire Bats live in Central and South America. Bats' wings are long fingers covered by thin skin, and they have furry bodies. These tailless mammals have weak legs and don't walk very well. Vampire Bats have a wingspan of only 8 inches.Vampire Bats can see, but use echolocation as their primary sense in order to find insects and small animals to eat. While flying, these bats send out high-pitched sounds that bounce off other objects. The bat listens for the bounced sound, and can determine where objects are located. People cannot hear these high-pitched sounds. The vampire bat is the only bat that eats blood, preying on cattle, horses, large birds and pigs. Vampire bats don't suck animals' blood, they make a small hole with their two very sharp incisor teeth and lap up the blood, which doesn't clot because of anti-coagulants in the bat's saliva.
ChimpanzeeChimpanzees are very intelligent great apes that are closely related to humans. They live in a variety of environments in western and central Africa. Chimps live in small, stable groups of about 40-60 chimps. They are an endangered species, since the forests they live in are cut down and used for farm land.Chimpanzees often use tools in the wild. They use sticks to get ants and termites to eat and to scare away intruders. They also use chewed-up leaves like a sponge to sop up water to drink. : Chimpanzees are omnivores. They forage for food in the forests during the day, eating leaves, fruit, seeds, and other plant material. They also eat termites, ants, and small animals
Friday, April 9, 2010
Mammals
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Birds
Birds-
Birds are a class of the chordates or vertebrate phylum. They are similar to other chordates in that they have a backbone. They are unique in the fact that they are covered with feathers and fly. There are four types of feathers for birds:
- Down Feathers - These keep both young and old birds warm. They are soft.
- Filoplumes - These are thin and hairlike with tufts on the end.
- Contour Feathers - These cover and protect the body and give the bird its color. The color of these feathers can depend on whether the bird is the male or female of the species.
- Quill Feathers - These large, strong feathers are in the wings and tail and help the bird with flying.
There are about 9000 species of birds, with 24 orders and 146 families. Scientists believe that birds evolved from reptiles and dinosaurs.
Birds are found throughout the world, from the tropics to polar regions. One unique characteristic of many birds is their tendency to migrate. This means that the birds move from colder to warmer areas as the winter approaches.
Birds can be both helpful and harmful to man. They are helpful as they frequently eat harmful insects. They provide food for man. They are pets and can be very decorative. They are harmful when they eat crops and kill animals.
Eagles
The bald eagle is 30-31 inches in length with a wingspan of 6-7 feet. It has a dark brown body, a white tail and a white head and shoulders. It has bright yellow eyes, a large hooked yellow bill, and powerful yellow legs and talons. Young bald eagles won't have a white head and shoulders until they are about five years old. Males and females look alike, although the female is a little larger.
Ducks
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
Animal (continued)
Chordates a

Tunicates
The Urocho

sea squirt
sea squirts are also know as ascidians, they belong to the subphylum of the tunicata. tunicates are favored as vertebrates ancestors in the long past. they are small but interesting marine animals. Ascidian Tunicates are called sea squirts because when taken out of the water they squirt the water inside their body with force through the atrium. their body are very simple it is a sack with two siphons through which water enters and exists (it is also filtered in the sack body).

Atlatic Bluefin Tuna
this tuna is considered to be one of the fastest, and most gorgeously colored of all the world's fishes.their bodies are shape/made for speed and endurance. they are carnivores, they eat smaller fish, squid, eels, kelp and custaceans. they weigh around 500 pounds and has an average size of 6.5 feet! they are warmblooded animals. ( they are eatable Yhumm). they can live from 15-30 years. they are part of the animalia kingdom and in the family of scombridae.
Amphibians
Amphibians

Bufo
bufo are highly intoxicated frogs that has short legs and no webs between their toes. their colors can range from dull green, tan or even black. When the Bufo id attacked it will release this milky substance that come from those large glands behind their head that toxic liquid can and may burn your eyes inflame your skin and can kill cats and dogs that's a good weapon if you guys are tired of cats and dogs :). interestingly more than one male bufo can fertilize the eggs of a female they feed on ants, beetles, earwigs, dragonflies, gastropods and even cat or dog food have been found in their stomachs!
Green tree frog
for one

Snakes
snake is a reptile that has no legs ( but that disability is replace by a strong a muscular "system" that helps it move around the fastest they can move is several miles per hour) and is covered in scales and can have different colors. and throughout the years you can found a snake shedding its outer skin(molting). they have no eyelids they are replaced by transparent covering to the eye to protect it. some snakes have oval pupils. Snakes have a long tong that is separated in two at the end almost looking like a fork, believe it or not they can smell with that! the teeth of a snake is not use to chew they prey but instead it s use to hold their preys, they swallow they preys whole (talking about manners).
Boa
the boa is a non poisonous snake but they are deadly snakes that kill but not swallow an average human.they weight up to 60 pounds.Boas can give birth to live young, which mean that the fully develop inside their mother and once they are given birth to they are on their own, they have to find their own prey, and know ho to hide they will need those techniques to catch their preys because they hide and wait for their preys and surprise your dead, like a python the boa kill it's prey by constricting them to death then swallow it whole. they eat birds, lizards, frogs and small mammals, larger will even eat monkeys,pigs, and deer! they can also live up to 30 years old in the wild.
Krait
the scient

Turtles

Galapagos tortoise
there is about 14 subspecies of the Galapagos tortoise of which 11

Box turtle
Is part of the Emydidae family, they are omnivorous that enjoy eating snails, insects, berries, fungi, frogs, fish, snakes, birds, flowers, worms and roots.they may also live up to 100 years or more.
Lizards
Lizards generally live in the tropical zone where it is very warm. lizard and snakes are different because they have four feet and can move quite quickly. the Gila monster i a poisonous lizards and lives in the American Southwest. its is several feet long and has brown and black skin with colored splotches, and it has poisonous glands that can kill a man.
Crocodiles- Alligators
Alligators and crocodiles are in the same reptile subgroup. they live mostly in tropical or semitropical regions. Alligators are found in the southern united states and the crocodiles in Africa, India, South America, and southern united state. they are among the largest reptile they have their bodies covered with scales and they have webbed toes. they live in swamps, and along the banks of rivers. Crocodiles spend more tie in the water then alligators and also it is ore active then the alligator. they crocodile has this greenish-grayish color and alligator is brownish, and they move slower. they both eat fish and nearby land animals, they also attack man! (maybe even aliens).
Salt water crocodile
the salt wate

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Sunday, April 4, 2010
Animals
Spongessponges are the simplest form of multi-cellular animals. they are diverse and come in different shape and colors. they range in heights of 1-200 cm and in diameters of 1-150 cm. Sponges do not have muscles, nervous system or internal organs!! their walls are lined with small holes (pores) called ostia that allow water to flow into the sponge. Sponges are made of four simple and indepedent cells the first is the collar cells(they help bring oxygen and nutrients to the sponge and also removes waste and carbon dioxide), the second cells are porocyte(cells that makes up the pores of the sponge), the third are the Epidermal cells(forms the skin outside of the sponge) last but not least the fourth which are ameobocytes exist( they carry out functions of the sponge and help transport nutrients). Sponges live in all types of region. 99% of all sponges live in marine water but some made of spongin fiber live in freshwater. Sponges are important in nutrien ts cycles in the coral reef systems. Scientist believe they may be important factors to changes in water quality whether it is good or bad. Sponges can reproduce both asexually and sexually.
Cnidarians
Cnidarians are considered animals and not plants, because of their mouth and a simple digestive system at the center of their tentacles. They are very simple and "beautiful".Cnidarians have features that sponges lack on. One such feature is presence of the gastrula stage during embryonic development. All cnidarians use tentacles which have stinging cells which are used to capture food. There are four major groups of cnidarians Anthozoa, Cubozoa, Hydrozoa, and Scyphozoa.
Corals-octocoral polypsOctocoral polyps are related to soft corals but since they grow low to the ground they are not nearly as noticeable on a reef or in an aquarium.A coral polyp is a tubular saclike animal with a central mouth surrounded by a ring of tentacles. The end opposite the tentacles, called the base, is attached to the substrate. Depending on the species, coral polyps may measure less than an inch to several inches in diameter. Coral colonies also vary in size. Some corals form only small colonies. Others may form colonies several feet high. Octocoral polyps are commonly called clove, glove and daisy polyps. Most of the corals in this group are a type of Stoloniferan. the polyps have eight prominent tentacles with a varying degree of pinnules which give the tentacles a feathery appearance. When the pinnules are not prominent the polyp bears resemblance to a flower they are anthozoan cnidarians with polyps bearing eight pinnate tentacles and eight complete septa. Most species have a skeleton or tissue containing calcareous sclerites, and an axis that is horny or calcified to varying degrees.
Box Jellyfish
The box jellyfish is also known as box fish and sea wasp. they are invertebrates that are carnivores, they also have one of the fastest working toxins and kills more people each year than any other marine animal.The box jellyfish's venom is among the most deadly in the world, containing toxins that attack the heart, nervous system, and skin cells.human victims have been known to go into shock and drown or die of heart failure before even reaching shore. Survivors can experience considerable pain for weeks and often have significant scarring where the tentacles made contact. box jellyfish are usually found in shallow waters.They are pale blue and transparent in color and get their name from the cube-like shape of their bell. They have developed the ability to move rather than just drift, jetting at up to four knots through the water. They also have eyes grouped in clusters of six on the four sides of their bell. Each cluster includes a pair of eyes with a sophisticated lens, retina, iris and cornea, although without a central nervous system, scientists aren’t sure how they process what they see. Up to 15 tentacles grow from each corner of the bell and can reach 10 feet (3 meters) in length and weights up to 4 pounds. Each tentacle has about 5,000 stinging cells, which are triggered not by touch but by the presence of a chemical on the outer layer of its prey.They only live for less than 1 year in the wild.
Flatworms
- Flatworms also have a sac body plan, meaning they have one opening that functions as both a mouth and an anus. However, flatworms are bilaterally symmetrical, and have three germ layers. Having three germ layers allows for greater tissue specialization, giving flatworms specialized digestive systems, excretory systems,
- reproductive systems, and nervous systems, which are exemplified by the Planaria, a heterotrophic free-living flatworm.
parasitic flatworms
Flatworms that are parasitic on humans fall into two categories, flukes and tapeworms. Due to the environment that they live, in a gut of a human, these flatworms have an anatomy different that a planaria. Generally, a parasitic flatworm will have a reduced digestive system and a more complex reproductive system and life cycle. Also, parasitic flatworms will usually have hooks on the scolex (anterior region) to attach it to the wall of the gut, and they have an extra outer covering (glycocalyx) to protect it from being digested. When a flatworm reproduces, the eggs are passed out with feces. When consumed by another host the life cycle continues.Flukes and tapeworms can infect many different animal hosts. They will usually have two each per life cycle, one when sexually mature, which is called the primary host, and a secondary host in which the eggs mature to larvae.
Planaria
earthworms
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mollusks
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Oysters
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Conch
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octopus
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Echinoderm
Starf

crown of thorns
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sea urchin
Sea urchi

sea cucumber
Sea cucumb

arthropods
Arthropods are critical to the food chain. They are the major source of food for most other animals and even a few plants. Birds, reptiles, fish, and other arthropods eat them. Even people eat arthropods. In the oceans, arthropods such as krill, copepods, and other crustaceans form the foundation of the food chain on which most fish and sea mammals survive.
lobster
Lobsters are

king crabs
Ants
Funnel web spider
Funnel webs are large spiders, 1.5 - 4.5 cm body length with glossy dark carapace. The abdomen is usually dark plum to black and not patterned. Female Funnel web spiders spend most of their life in their burrows, but do occasionally hunt at night. Males however wander in search for females, mainly during summer and autumn. The males spend their whole short adulthood seeking as many receptive females to mate. They approach the females in their burrows by following their chemical attraction scent. During mating, the male must restrain the female from striking him with her fangs using the spurs on his second legs, while he transfers sperm into her genital opening. The female then spins a pillow shaped silk egg sack, which holds up to 100 eggs. They hatch in about three weeks later and stay with their mother for a few months. They mature in about two to four years , females living up to 10 years, male dying about 6 to 10 months after maturity.
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Saturday, April 3, 2010
Plants
Fern

- Pines
Most pines native to North America can grow as high as 197-262 ft (60-80 m). The leaves are all needle like and arise from the stem in bundles, called facicles. Each Facicles are associated with a fascicle sheath, a special tissue located at its base. Since pines have needles throughout the year, they have the potential to photosynthesize whenever conditions are suitable. They are well adapted for growth in harsh dry areas. The outer surface of the needle has a waxy layer, called a cuticle, which helps reduce evaporative water losses. Pines trees are one of many plants whose seeds are not enclosed within an ovary, known as Gymnosperms.
Angiosperms
Angiosperms are flowering plants. Angiosperms are the biggest group in the plant kingdom. They mad their first appearance in the fossil record during the Cretaceous period.They have true roots, stems, leaves and flowers. They also have seeds.The seeds are formed when an egg or ovule is fertilized by pollen in the ovary. The ovary is within a flower. The flower contains the male and/or female parts of the plant. Fruits are frequently produced from these ripened ovaries.
- Apple
- Tomato

- Orchid
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Fungal Paradise
Yeast in IndustryYeasts are eukaryotic microorganisms classified in the kingdom Fungi. hey dominate fungal diversity in the oceans. Most reproduce asexually by budding, although a few do so by binary fission. Yeasts are unicellular, although some species with yeast forms may become multi-cellular through the formation of a string of connected budding cells known as pseudohyphae, or false hyphae as seen in most molds. Yeast size can vary greatly depending on the species, typically measuring 3–4 µm in diameter, although some yeast can reach over 40 µm. The yeast species Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been used in baking and fermenting alcoholic beverages for thousands of years. It is also extremely important as a model organism in modern cell biology research, and is the most thoroughly researched eukaryotic microorganism. Researchers have used it to gather information into the biology of the eukaryotic cell and ultimately human biology. Other species of yeast, such as Candida albicans, are opportunistic pathogens and can cause infection in humans. Yeasts have recently been used to generate electricity in microbial fuel cells, and produce ethanol for the biofuel industry.
Poisonous MushroomsPoisonous Mushrooms refers to deleterious effects from ingestion of toxic substances present in a mushroom. These symptoms caused can vary from slight gastrointestinal discomfort to death. The toxins present are secondary metabolites produced in specific biochemical pathways in the fungal cells. Mushroom poisoning is usually the result of ingestion of wild mushrooms after misidentification of a toxic mushroom as an edible species. The most common reason for this misidentification is close resemblance in terms of color and general morphology of the toxic mushrooms species with edible species. Even very experienced wild mushroom gatherers are sometimes poisoned by eating toxic species, despite being well aware of the risks.
Lichens
A lichen is a symbiosis. Meaning it is two or more organisms living together such that both are more successful within the partnership than they would have been if they were living on their own. With lichens the basic components of this partnership are a fungus called the 'mycobiont' and one or more algae and a cyanobacteria called the 'photobiont'. The true nature of the symbiosis between this two partners is still being debated by scientists and some would maintain that the fungus is a parasite on the photobiont. However, in many cases, the algae in question cannot survive alone in the habitat occupied by the lichen any more than the unattached fungi can, so it is not realistic to use the term parasite. The fungal partners are mostly Ascomycetes. Most of the rest are Basidiomycetes. As far as science has been able to discover few if any of the fungi involved can survive and reproduce in the wild on their own.
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