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This cut and polished fossil was at one time the home for a mollusk that lived within it's chambered halls.
Ammonites were early mollusks. These marine animals had no vertebrae and were protected by a hard shell (usually coiled) made from calcium. Fast-moving predators, they ate other animals in the sea. They were cephalopods.
Anatomy: These animals were protected by a shell (usually spiral-coiled) that contained many air filled chambers, called phragmocones; the animal lived only in the outer chamber. The opening of the shell is called the aperture. The walls of each chamber are called septa; these walls were penetrated by a ventral tubelike structure called a siphuncle that probably regulated the air pressure, allowing the ammonite to float.
The ammonite's closest living relative is the Chambered Nautilus
My extremely fast camera shutter speed captured this formally extinct tree owl before it again flew away forever.
Do not cry nina
if art is extinct
on the wall a rhyme,
a portrait, a tint
poets and painters
not have been won
are alive in colors,
fragments,
paintings ...
SOLO in Rome
you'll never alone
brush and coat
you will fly
Trullo is that the father
of rebellious children
artists, painters, poets,
brothers.
Poeti der Trullo
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Now extinct in Britain, these were released illegally from captive stock.
Also published in the Carr Vale annual report for 2006, by Mark Beevers.
This photo made it to the number 1 spot in:
Top 20 Butterflies
''The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.''
Georg Trakl
Georg Trakl was an Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists.
Life and Work
Trakl was born and lived the first 18 years of his life in Salzburg, Austria. His father, Tobias Trakl (11 June 1837, Ödenburg/Sopron – 1910), was a dealer of hardware from Hungary, while his mother, Maria Catharina Halik (17 May 1852, Wiener Neustadt – 1925), was a housewife of Czech descent with strong interests in art and music.
Smilodon fatalis
Extinct
These sabre-toothed cats were about the size of a modern African lion, with short powerful legs, a muscular build, and exceptionally long upper canines.
Climate change, impacting both food resources and habitat, likely contributed to the cats' demise. Hunting by humans probably played a role as well.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saber-toothed_cat
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Museum_of_Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature; Ottawa, Ontario.
Size approx 60cm.
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Unikonta
(unranked): Obazoa
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
(unranked): Bilateria
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclass: Osteichthyes
Class: Actinopterygii
(unranked): Actinopteri
Subclass: Neopterygii
Infraclass: Teleostei
Superorder: Clupeomorpha
Order: Clupeiformes
Family: †Ellimmichthyidae
Genus: †Diplomystus
Species: †D. dentatus
Panthera onca
• Yaguareté, jaguar, yaguar
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Carnivora
Suborder:Feliformia
Family:Felidae
Genus:Panthera
Species:P. onca
Paraguay / Northern Argentina.
Extinct in Uruguay
Canon 77D + Sigma 150-600mm Contemporary
Parque y Reserva de Fauna Cerro Pan de Azúcar, Maldonado, Uruguay
The baiji (pronounced by-jee) is considered to be the first dolphin species to possibly go extinct do to human interaction. There are believed to be fewer than 10 specimens left. In the 1800s, this species numbered up to 5,000 individuals. Sadly, pollution, dams, bycatch (getting caught in nets), habitat destruction, and climate change have all taken their toll. These beautiful creatures are listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN and their numbers are decreasing. It is widely believed that the species is actually functionally extinct. Meaning that there might not be enough individuals remaining to perpetuate the species.
First the Stats...
Scientific name: Lipotes vexillifer
Weight: Up to 180 lbs.
Length: Up to 5.6 feet
Lifespan: Up to 25+ years
Now on to the Facts!
1.) These dolphins can only be found in the Yangtze River and the Qiantang River, in China.
2.) They also go by the names: White Flag dolphin, Yangtze River dolphin, Changjiang dolphin, and Chinese lake dolphin.
3.) These dolphins, like other known species of dolphins, are diurnal (active during the day).
4.) Baiji river dolphins have been around for approximately 50 million years. It has taken less than 50 years for humans to decimate their populations to the meager numbers of today.
5.) Their name, in Chinese, means white dolphin.
But wait, there's more on the baiji!
6.) Baiji dolphins prey on a variety of river fish.
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Like the dinosaurs that decorate this former 'Island Coaster' the bus is now extinct, or at least it no longer roams the Island, and perhaps it has found private use somewhere?
A shot I had previously crapped, comes back from the dead, but only because I`ll never have another go at this one. The Plaxton president bodied Volvo is seen 'Not in service;' along Ryde Esplanade on the 28th of May 2015.
It is very much the 1970s at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport with a lineup of extinct airlines and aircraft that are not long in widespread use. In the foreground are a pair of Western Airlines Boeing 727s while in the background are three TWA Boeing 707s, two of which still wear their 1960s era liveries. (Scanned from a slide)
[Hefei, Anhui, China] A diplodocus mother and child roam the urban landscape of Hefei, by the facade of the Anhui cultural museum.
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The Sumatran tiger lives on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, it is the only surviving tiger population in the Sunda Islands, where the Bali and Javan tigers are extinct.
The Sumatran tiger is the smallest of all tiger subspecies, their stripes are narrower than those of other tigers and they have a distinctive bearded and maned appearance, especially the males. Males measure between 87 to 100 in. (92.2 to 2.55 m) head-to-body length, and weigh 220 to 310 lb.(100 to 140 kg). Females weigh 165 to 243 lb. (75 to 110 kg) and measure 85 to 91 in. (2.15 to 2.3 m) in length. They are more agile than other tiger species, in terms of speed, they can sprint up to 40 mph (65 km/h) in short bursts. They have webbed paws and are excellent swimmers.
Sumatran tigers prefer lowland and hill forests, where up to three tigers live in an area of 39 sq. miles (100 km2). They strongly prefer uncultivated forests and make little use of plantations of acacia and oil palm even if these are available. Within natural forest areas, they tend to use areas with higher elevation, lower annual rainfall, farther from the forest edge, and closer to forest centres. They prefer forest with dense cover and steep slope, and they strongly avoid forest areas with high human influence in the forms of encroachment and settlement. In acacia plantations, they tend to use areas closer to water and prefer areas with older plants, more leaf litter, and thicker subcanopy cover. Tiger records in oil palm and rubber plantations are scarce.
In the wild, Sumatran tigers usually hunt at night about once a week, the ambush their prey and prey on wild boar, Malayan tapirs, greater and lesser mouse-deer, Indian muntjac, Sambar deer, pig-tailed macaque, Malayan porcupine, great argus pheasant, birds and fish.
They are solitary animals, only coming together to mate. Gestation takes about 100 days from mating to birth, and tigers cubs will remain with their mothers for up to 2 years. A litter can be between 1 and 7 cubs.
The conservation status of the Sumatran tiger is CR (critically endangered).
Moth-eaten and of poor taxidermic quality, these specimens in the Queen Victoria museum, Launceston, are the final testiments on this island to a noble endemic species.
The last known moving images of a living Tasmanian tiger (thylacinus cynocepalus or thylacine) can be seen on the following clip. The tragic animal died alone in captivity at a Zoo in Hobart in 1936.
It has my heart.
aso.gov.au/titles/historical/tasmanian-tiger-footage/clip1/
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Wonderful textures by una cierta mirada & les brumes.
A trip to a fav location of mine this morning was rewarded with the most spectacular conditions I shot this and several others whilst the mist ebbed and flowed across the lakes surface.
The red and blue lighting effect was achieved through using 2 mini flashlights (red and blue) which can be obtained for around $4 each online.
This is a photo of a T-Rex toy.
- Josh
Hornby Peckett 'Dodo' went into the paint shop, lost it's name and came out dirty!
It's actually sat on a small test panel of Cambrian track to test ballasting and weathering which is actually EM gauge (but as I ididn't actually gauge it it's slightly narrow hence Dodo sits neatly!) The wagons in the background are modified Cambrian Kits and are Cambrian wagons.