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These were gifted to me; although they are re-pressings, they were made using the format and style of the original versions.
A giant Moa photographed in April 2012 while on a two week holiday to the north island of New Zealand. This reconstructed specimen was in the Mercury Bay museum in Whitianga.
A recent scientific study seems to show that the Moa adapted to changes in climate for tens of thousands of years. The extinction of the species was most likely connected to the arrival of the Maori about 800 years ago. Human hunting and habitat destruction lead to the decline and ultimate extinction of the species.
Image used in the article How New Zealand’s megabirds survived climate change by Alasdair Wilkins (Aug 5, 2012 2:00 PM).
Background info -
University of Adelaide media release # August 2012 - Giant moa had climate change figured out.
ScienceDirect - The effect of climate and environmental change on the megafaunal moa of New Zealand in the absence of humans dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.07.004
Extinct Giant Great White shark.
This is the second sharks tooth I have ever found. It is from the Eocene aged Ocala limestone.
ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTERA: ROMA METRO C - "ROME JOURNAL, Unearthed in Rome’s New Subway: Extinct Elephants and Persian Peach Pit - Next Stop, First Century, on a Subway Line Tunneling Through Eras." The New York Times (December 19, 2017), p. A11; & THE CBS EVENING NEWS | NEW YORK (17 JUNE 2017).
Foto: The Colosseum overshadowing the construction site for the Rome Metro C Imperial Fora subway station, in: THE CBS EVENING NEWS | NEW YORK (17 JUNE 2017) VIDEO. 03:03.
ROME JOURNAL. Unearthed in Rome’s New Subway: Extinct Elephants and Persian Peach Pits. The New York Times (December 19, 2017).
ROME — The ancient Romans were celebrated for their engineering feats: roads that helped expand an empire; aqueducts that quenched throngs and supplied lavish fountains; monumental bridges, some of which are still in use today.
So it seems apt that a modern engineering achievement — the construction of a new subway line in the city — has given archaeologists a unique opportunity to study this ancient world in extraordinary detail.
“This subway has provided a wealth of knowledge about the city that no other operation could have duplicated,” said Rossella Rea, the archaeologist who has overseen the project since planning for the subway line began in the 1990s.
The new route, Line C, will link the city center to an area to the east of Rome, beyond the city limits, connecting a series of fairly recently developed and heavily populated suburbs. The hope is that the line, whose first 13 stations were opened in 2014, will alleviate some of Rome’s famously chronic traffic chaos.
In living cities, archaeologists typically get to muck around underground during the construction of parking lots, with digs up to 26 feet below ground. With its subway lines traveling at nearly 100 feet below ground, Line C has given archaeologists access to artifacts dating as far back as the Paleolithic era.
“We haven’t done anything so extensive or gone so deeply” for years, Ms. Rea said.
As tens of thousands of cubic meters of earth has been moved during the line’s decade-long construction, each unearthed artifact — marble capitals and mosaics, and even remains of long-ago leftover meals and the ruins of 19th-century villas — has been painstakingly documented, cataloged and extracted. Some will go on show once a proper exhibition space is found. Some more monumental finds will be recomposed to be admired in situ.
“We’ve found enough materials to fill a warehouse” in a Roman suburb where they are being studied, said Francesco Prosperetti, a special superintendent with archaeological oversight.
The excavations also turned up ancient structures.
A huge public building known as the Auditoria, dating to Hadrian’s time in the second century, came to light under the central Piazza Venezia during an exploratory phase. Archaeologists believe the two-story building was Rome’s first university, used for cultural events and lessons. Today the square is a busy crossroad for traffic and tourists.
Another significant find was a military barracks from the second century, found during the construction of the Amba Aradam station, which is expected to open in 2022. The dig exposed a long central corridor opening onto 39 rooms — some decorated with simple black and white mosaic floors and simply frescoed walls — which archaeologists hypothesize were soldiers’ dormitories. They formed part of a large structure, though the full size of the barracks is unknown.
Even as the excavation has led to several unexpected finds, archaeologists bristle at being blamed for the delays that have marred the subway line’s construction.
The project’s overall costs have come under criticism, and there are judicial investigations of some changes to the original project that led to delays in construction and raised the costs.
But with Rome’s ingrained traffic woes — according to one report, the city’s residents lose a collective 135 million hours a year in traffic — an extensive subway network is widely seen as a necessary goal.
At the San Giovanni station, which is expected to open early next year, archaeologists found bits of ancient capitals, decorative marble elements, petrified peach pits from ancient Persian cuttings and 16th-century terra-cotta plates from a nearby hospital.
Some of these artifacts have been put on exhibit at the station, the first to showcase its buried past with display cases, videos and tall panels providing a fast-track historical journey from prehistoric to modern times, with a focus on the ancient republican and imperial city.
“We wanted to give a sense of the archaeological study, tell the story of this place, allowing the passenger to travel through time,” Mr. Prosperetti said.
It’s a marked change from other stations in Rome’s subway system that are mostly devoid of ornamentation, when they aren’t outright grungy. Naples, by contrast, has been featuring renowned contemporary artists in its subway system to create what one critic described as a “catacomb of beauty.”
When the station was opened to the public for one day last April, the response was overwhelming, a sign that Romans are keen to rediscover their past. More people visited the station that day than the Colosseum, one of Rome’s biggest tourist draws. The difference was that whereas the Colosseum draws foreigners, “here they were all Italian,” said Ms. Rea, who was present on that day.
The wall decorations at San Giovanni also evoke some extinct denizens of the area, like the Elephas antiquus, the straight-tusked pachyderm that lived here during the Middle and Late Pleistocene. Remains of this extinct species were found during the disruptive construction of Via dei Fori Imperiali, the broad avenue through the Forums that Mussolini built in the 1930s.
Such discoveries, and their preservation, were not always the norm when Rome’s other two subway lines were built in the mid- and later 20th century. A certain amount of documentation exists from the Line B excavations, Ms. Rea noted, “but we don’t have anything from Line A.”
A glimpse of what may have been lost underground was captured by the imagination of the director Federico Fellini, whose 1972 film “Roma” includes a segment about the building of the subway in which roomfuls of frescoes disintegrate when they are exposed to air. Watching that fictitious scene was “traumatizing” for legions of archaeologists, said Simona Morretta, the state archaeologist responsible for two sites along the new subway line.
At one of the sites last December, Ms. Morretta came across tracts of one of Rome’s oldest aqueducts, which is now being studied. It is thought to be either the Aqua Appia from the end of the fourth century B.C. or the Anio Vetus from about four decades later. “In any case it’s one the first public works fundamental for Rome,” she said.
And while digging a shaft to protect the Aurelian Walls, between the San Giovanni and Amba Aradam stations, her team found a decorated domus — which Italian newspapers described as a “mini Pompeii” — that had been destroyed by a fire.
On a recent sunny morning she showed off a series of ceramic tiles found with a stamp indicating that they had been made in A.D. 123. “We’re certain to find something new,” she said.
Fonte | source:
-- "ROME JOURNAL, Unearthed in Rome’s New Subway: Extinct Elephants and Persian Peach Pit - Next Stop, First Century, on a Subway Line Tunneling Through Eras." The New York Times (December 19, 2017), p. A11.
www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/world/europe/rome-subway-archa...
A version of this article appears in print on December 19, 2017, on Page A11 of the New York edition with the headline: "Next Stop, First Century, on a Subway Line Tunneling Through Eras."
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-- ROMA ARCHEOLOGIA e RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: ROME - THE NEW SAN GIOVANNI METRO STATION - Rome's subway station is also museum filled with ancient history. THE CBS EVENING NEWS | NEW YORK (17 JUNE 2017) VIDEO. 03:03.
'Endangered and Extinct' by creative recycling artist Val Hunt, an exhibition at Gloucester Cathedral, Saturday 26 September-Sunday 1 November 2020 in the Cloisters
From the Cathedral's website:
"This exhibition presents a subtle message about recycling and preservation, raising awareness of why the creatures on show are endangered or extinct...
Having worked for the past 29 years as a professional maker, Val Hunt continues to be amazed at the versatility of creative recycling. There is an enormous variety of discarded material just waiting to be reconstructed and given a new identity, especially Val's favourite material of drinks can metal. Intricate constructions and interesting textures are key elements found in her work, humour is also an added ingredient whenever possible.
Through experimentation, ingenuity and skill her work is always changing as she discovers new techniques and ways of constructing recycled materials to signal a new meaning. Her works recycles a diverse selection of throwaway material, from these she creates a fascinating selection of large and small sculptural pieces which are both appealing and informative.
Despite her use of manufactured materials, her main inspiration comes from the natural world. Val has a special interest in endangered and extinct species and most of her work reflects this. She makes animals, exotic birds, dinosaurs, insects and species of flora all on the edge or now extinct.
The increasing awareness of the effects of pollution, climate change, plastic in the Ocean and environment destruction on the habitat have influenced Val's work. She now dedicates her making to highlighting the plight of species that are on the edge or gone forever in her touring educational exhibition 'Endangered and Extinct'...
Val's work has been shown in exhibitions around the UK, Denmark, Japan, United Emirates, USA and toured overseas with the British Council. She has work in many permanent collections."
Pilot Butte is an extinct volcano located in Bend, Oregon. It is a cinder cone butte which rises nearly 500 feet (150 m) above the surrounding plains. Bend is one of the very few cities in the United States with volcanoes located within their boundaries. Others include Portland, Oregon, which lies within the Boring Lava Field, and Honolulu, Hawaii, which includes several volcanoes such as Diamond Head within its city limits.
The 100 acres (40 ha) Pilot Butte State Scenic Viewpoint, acquired by the city in 1927, nearly covers the butte. Pilot Butte itself is a popular hiking destination and requires an ascent of about 500 feet (150 m) to reach the summit. A scenic road also winds up and around the cone and saw 900,000 vehicle visits in 2004 and 2005 according to the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. From the top, the entire city of Bend is visible, as well as several major Cascade peaks. Most prominent are the Three Sisters, Broken Top, and Mount Bachelor which are located about 20 miles (32 km) to the west. The City of Bend launches 4th of July fireworks from Pilot Butte each year. Pilot Butte was named in 1851 by Thomas Clark, leader of the first party of European settlers to camp on the future site of Bend. The Clark wagon train approached the area from the east after recovering from the Clark Massacre.
This fabulous plant is extinct in the wild. it once occurred naturally in Mexico (I can't find a record of even what state), and today only exists as a single clone in cultivation. It is self-incompatible and thus incapable of reproducing sexually.
While I am grateful that at least one clone exists, this is a real shame and an evolutionary dead-end. It's only a matter of time before a pathogen comes along that wipes out the species from cultivation, however I hope that its complete extinction can be postponed for many, many years.
Cosmos atrosanguineus is a favourite plant and handsome in all aspects. Its flowers have a great fragrance of vanilla and cocoa on a warm day. Everyone should get a chance to enjoy it.
It grows well in the SF Bay Area in full sun, so long as its tuberous roots do not stay too wet and cold during its winter dormancy. It performs well as a potted subject, with care to keep the root zone from drying out during active growth.
Update: The type specimen is from Zimapán, Hildago, Mexico. (Thank you, Max)
An Extinct Volcano is a volcano which scientists consider unlikely to erupt again.A volcano which has not erupted in the past 10,000 years is extinct, it no longer has a massive lava supply and is no longer near an active geologic hot spots.
.tasmanian tiger again. I took way too many pictures, but it's not every day you see an extinct animal in real life (ok, well in taxidermy form)
A shelf full of colourful figurines of the extinct dodo bird, once native to Mauritius. In reality, the birds were off white and grey in colour. Described as 'slow, clumsy and dumb', the Raphus Culculatus or dodo bird became extinct between 1681 and 1693. It weighed between 16 and 23kg. The Dutch sailors who landed in Mauritius made short work of the defenseless birds, using them for meat. The Dutch also brought with them convicts as well as dogs, pigs and monkeys, who attacked and destroyed dodo eggs and the birds themselves, leading to the total extinction of the dodo birds by 1693. Although defenseless, the birds could inflict a nasty bite if they chose to. Most evidence of the dodo's existence is based on the momoirs and drawings of the sailors. (Mauritius, Mar. 2005) (Loss of colour and quality due to scan from print: photo was taken on 35mm film).
'Endangered and Extinct' by creative recycling artist Val Hunt, an exhibition at Gloucester Cathedral, Saturday 26 September-Sunday 1 November 2020 in the Cloisters
From the Cathedral's website:
"This exhibition presents a subtle message about recycling and preservation, raising awareness of why the creatures on show are endangered or extinct...
Having worked for the past 29 years as a professional maker, Val Hunt continues to be amazed at the versatility of creative recycling. There is an enormous variety of discarded material just waiting to be reconstructed and given a new identity, especially Val's favourite material of drinks can metal. Intricate constructions and interesting textures are key elements found in her work, humour is also an added ingredient whenever possible.
Through experimentation, ingenuity and skill her work is always changing as she discovers new techniques and ways of constructing recycled materials to signal a new meaning. Her works recycles a diverse selection of throwaway material, from these she creates a fascinating selection of large and small sculptural pieces which are both appealing and informative.
Despite her use of manufactured materials, her main inspiration comes from the natural world. Val has a special interest in endangered and extinct species and most of her work reflects this. She makes animals, exotic birds, dinosaurs, insects and species of flora all on the edge or now extinct.
The increasing awareness of the effects of pollution, climate change, plastic in the Ocean and environment destruction on the habitat have influenced Val's work. She now dedicates her making to highlighting the plight of species that are on the edge or gone forever in her touring educational exhibition 'Endangered and Extinct'...
Val's work has been shown in exhibitions around the UK, Denmark, Japan, United Emirates, USA and toured overseas with the British Council. She has work in many permanent collections."
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Unikonta
(unranked): Obazoa
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
(unranked): Bilateria
(unranked): Protostomia
Superphylum: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Subphylum: Conchifera
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Coleoidea
Cohort: Neocoleoidea
Superorder: Octopodiformes
Order: Octopoda
Suborder: †Teudopseina
Superfamily: †Muensterelloidea
Family: †Muensterellidae
Subfamily: †Enchoteuthinae
Genus: †Niobrarateuthis
Species: †N. walkeri
Finally the 'truth' is revealed - the dinosaurs became extinct when they were all impaled on giant straws from outer space. No really. Nothing in the fossil record, you say? Well, straws don't fossilize, obviously!
For ODC2: stretching the truth
Tronador mountain is a extinct stratovolcano in the southern Andes at the border between Argentina and Chile near the city of Bariloche, in Nahuel Huapi National Park, of Río Negro province, in Argentina 's patagonia
Imagen escaneada de una fotografía en papel.
( 25 de enero de 2002 )
Cerro Tronador , Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi,
departamento Bariloche, suroeste de la provincia de Río Negro,
en la región patagónica de ARGENTINA.
Este cerro es un volcán inactivo (Tipo estratovolcán ) que se encuentra en la frontera entre Chile y Argentina cerca de la ciudad de Bariloche.
Separa dos parques nacionales: el Vicente Pérez Rosales en la provincia de Llanquihue, Chile, y el Nahuel Huapi, en Río Negro y Neuquen, Argentina.
Tiene una altura de 3.491 msnm.
Posee tres cimas: una argentina (pico argentino), de 3.200 msnm, una fronteriza, entre ambos países, de 3.491 msnm, y una chilena (cumbre chilena), de 3.320 msnm.
Está cubierto por siete glaciares.
Por la vertiente argentina se encuentran, de sur a norte, los glaciares Frías, Alerces, Castaño Overo y Río Manso.
Por la chilena, en la misma dirección, se encuentran los glaciares Peulla, Casa Pangue y Río Blanco.
El nombre del cerro se debe al ruido similar al de truenos producido por los frecuentes desprendimientos y caídas de seracs en los glaciares del mismo.
En su base existe una zona donde los hielos se tiñen de negro, producto de los sedimentos y arenas que acarrean, dicha zona es llamada el Ventisquero negro.
Del lado argentino, un camino permite acercarse hasta el pie de las paredes de roca que rodean al cerro, al punto de perder de vista la cumbre por la excesiva cercanía a los mismos.
Las mejores vistas del Tronador se obtienen en el paraje de Pampa Linda (foto).
Un sendero peatonal de fuerte pendiente, en gran parte practicable a caballo, permite llegar a un refugio organizado, que lleva el nombre del andinista Otto Meiling, el cual posee ciertas comodidades de alojamiento, y está ubicado en el borde de los glaciares superiores.
Desde los glaciares que rodean al Tronador surgen varios arroyos, que confluyen en Pampa Linda para formar el río Manso superior, que naciendo en la Argentina desemboca en el Océano Pacífico de Chile.
La primera ascensión fue el 29 de enero de 1934, por Hermann Claussen.
Se encuentra en las coordenadas: 41°09′25″sur y 71°53′05″oeste.
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_0339, 2007-11-07, 09:23 , 8C, 4040x5368 (1368+1403), 100%, 412E BetterLig, 1/80 s, R57.4, G44.8, B55.6
Shooting for the french brand Extinct Eyes
Photographer: Florent Joannès
Model: Mélodie Vesco
Beanie & shirt: Mélodie Vesco
2015
Flickr album : London Heathrow & Gatwick in the pre digital era.
British Airways 737 G-BGJF 'Skylark' operating a service for British Airtours, London Gatwick 1986.
'JF' a 737-236 C/N 22027 delivered to British Airtours 17.04.1980. It served with BA until 1999, shuttling back and forward on lease to British Airways / British Airtours. Acquired by Polaris leasing in June 1999, it went to South America before final withdrawl in 2001.
Scan from a print. London Gatwick July 1985
Inaugural action of Extinction Rebellion Canberra at Questacon to o symbolically demand that Questacon cease its partnership with Big Oil, and that as our National Science and Technology Centre it must explain the Climate and Ecological emergency we are in.
Check Facebook: WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/XRACT for future events
'Endangered and Extinct' by creative recycling artist Val Hunt, an exhibition at Gloucester Cathedral, Saturday 26 September-Sunday 1 November 2020 in the Cloisters
From the Cathedral's website:
"This exhibition presents a subtle message about recycling and preservation, raising awareness of why the creatures on show are endangered or extinct...
Having worked for the past 29 years as a professional maker, Val Hunt continues to be amazed at the versatility of creative recycling. There is an enormous variety of discarded material just waiting to be reconstructed and given a new identity, especially Val's favourite material of drinks can metal. Intricate constructions and interesting textures are key elements found in her work, humour is also an added ingredient whenever possible.
Through experimentation, ingenuity and skill her work is always changing as she discovers new techniques and ways of constructing recycled materials to signal a new meaning. Her works recycles a diverse selection of throwaway material, from these she creates a fascinating selection of large and small sculptural pieces which are both appealing and informative.
Despite her use of manufactured materials, her main inspiration comes from the natural world. Val has a special interest in endangered and extinct species and most of her work reflects this. She makes animals, exotic birds, dinosaurs, insects and species of flora all on the edge or now extinct.
The increasing awareness of the effects of pollution, climate change, plastic in the Ocean and environment destruction on the habitat have influenced Val's work. She now dedicates her making to highlighting the plight of species that are on the edge or gone forever in her touring educational exhibition 'Endangered and Extinct'...
Val's work has been shown in exhibitions around the UK, Denmark, Japan, United Emirates, USA and toured overseas with the British Council. She has work in many permanent collections."
Extinct New Zealand species, this was the only bird where males and females have different bill shape and both sexes collaborate in feeding. Males have a straight bill, used as woodpeckers for open the rotten wood and the female, with the curved bill pull out the larvae of the holes opened by the male.
Musée d'Histoire Naturelle du La Rochelle
'Endangered and Extinct' by creative recycling artist Val Hunt, an exhibition at Gloucester Cathedral, Saturday 26 September-Sunday 1 November 2020 in the Cloisters
From the Cathedral's website:
"This exhibition presents a subtle message about recycling and preservation, raising awareness of why the creatures on show are endangered or extinct...
Having worked for the past 29 years as a professional maker, Val Hunt continues to be amazed at the versatility of creative recycling. There is an enormous variety of discarded material just waiting to be reconstructed and given a new identity, especially Val's favourite material of drinks can metal. Intricate constructions and interesting textures are key elements found in her work, humour is also an added ingredient whenever possible.
Through experimentation, ingenuity and skill her work is always changing as she discovers new techniques and ways of constructing recycled materials to signal a new meaning. Her works recycles a diverse selection of throwaway material, from these she creates a fascinating selection of large and small sculptural pieces which are both appealing and informative.
Despite her use of manufactured materials, her main inspiration comes from the natural world. Val has a special interest in endangered and extinct species and most of her work reflects this. She makes animals, exotic birds, dinosaurs, insects and species of flora all on the edge or now extinct.
The increasing awareness of the effects of pollution, climate change, plastic in the Ocean and environment destruction on the habitat have influenced Val's work. She now dedicates her making to highlighting the plight of species that are on the edge or gone forever in her touring educational exhibition 'Endangered and Extinct'...
Val's work has been shown in exhibitions around the UK, Denmark, Japan, United Emirates, USA and toured overseas with the British Council. She has work in many permanent collections."
_0373, 2007-11-08, 09:37 , 8C, 4040x5368 (1416+1416), 100%, 412E BetterLig, 1/80 s, R57.4, G44.8, B55.6
BIG 5. Elephant. Kruger National Park. South Africa. Jan/2020
Elephant
Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea. Three species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), the African forest elephant (L. cyclotis), and the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). Elephants are scattered throughout sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Elephantidae is the only surviving family of the order Proboscidea; other, now extinct, members of the order include deinotheres, gomphotheres, mammoths, and mastodons.
All elephants have several distinctive features, the most notable of which is a long trunk (also called a proboscis), used for many purposes, particularly breathing, lifting water, and grasping objects. Their incisors grow into tusks, which can serve as weapons and as tools for moving objects and digging. Elephants' large ear flaps help to control their body temperature. Their pillar-like legs can carry their great weight. African elephants have larger ears and concave backs while Asian elephants have smaller ears and convex or level backs.
Elephants are herbivorous and can be found in different habitats including savannahs, forests, deserts, and marshes. They prefer to stay near water. They are considered to be a keystone species due to their impact on their environments. Other animals tend to keep their distance from elephants while predators, such as lions, tigers, hyenas, and any wild dogs, usually target only young elephants (or "calves"). Elephants have a fission–fusion society in which multiple family groups come together to socialise. Females ("cows") tend to live in family groups, which can consist of one female with her calves or several related females with offspring. The groups are led by an individual known as the matriarch, often the oldest cow.
Males ("bulls") leave their family groups when they reach puberty and may live alone or with other males. Adult bulls mostly interact with family groups when looking for a mate and enter a state of increased testosterone and aggression known as musth, which helps them gain dominance and reproductive success. Calves are the centre of attention in their family groups and rely on their mothers for as long as three years. Elephants can live up to 70 years in the wild. They communicate by touch, sight, smell, and sound; elephants use infrasound, and seismic communication over long distances. Elephant intelligence has been compared with that of primates and cetaceans. They appear to have self-awareness and show empathyfor dying or dead individuals of their kind.
Source: Wikipedia
Elefante
Os elefantes são animais herbívoros, alimentando-se de ervas, gramíneas, frutas e folhas de árvores. Dado o seu tamanho, um elefante adulto pode ingerir entre 70 a 150 kg de alimentos por dia. As fêmeas vivem em manadas de 10 a 15 animais, lideradas por uma matriarca, compostas por várias reprodutoras e crias de variadas idades. O período de gestação das fêmeas é longo (20 a 22 meses), assim como o desenvolvimento do animal que leva anos a atingir a idade adulta. Os filhotes podem nascer com 90 kg. Os machos adolescentes tendem a viver em pequenos bandos e os machos adultos isolados, encontrando-se com as fêmeas apenas no período reprodutivo.
Devido ao seu porte, os elefantes têm poucos predadores. Exercem uma forte influência sobre as savanas, pois mantêm árvores e arbustos sob controle, permitindo que pastagens dominem o ambiente. Eles vivem cerca de 60 anos e morrem quando seus molares caem, impedindo que se alimentem de plantas.
Os elefantes-africanos são maiores que as variedades asiáticas e têm orelhas mais desenvolvidas, uma adaptação que permite libertar calor em condições de altas temperaturas. Outra diferença importante é a ausência de presas de marfim nas fêmeas dos elefantes asiáticos.
Durante a época de acasalamento, o aumento da produção de testosterona deixa os elefantes extremamente agressivos, fazendo-os atacar até humanos. Acidentes com elefantes utilizados em rituais geralmente são causados por esse motivo. Cerca de 400 humanos são mortos por elefantes a cada ano.
Elefante é o termo genérico e popular pelo qual são denominados os membros da família Elephantidae, um grupo de mamíferos proboscídeoselefantídeos, de grande porte, do qual há três espécies no mundo atual, duas africanas (Loxodonta sp.) e uma asiática (Elephas sp.). Há ainda os mamutes (Mammuthus sp.), hoje extintos. Até recentemente, acreditava-se que havia apenas duas espécies vivas de elefantes, o elefante-africano e o elefante-asiático, uma espécie menor. Entretanto, estudos recentes de DNA sugerem que havia, na verdade, duas espécies de elefante-africano: Loxodonta africana, da savana, e Loxodonta cyclotis, que vive nas florestas. Os elefantes são os maiores animais terrestres da actualidade, com a massa entre 4 a 6 toneladas e medindo em média quatro metros de altura, podem levantar até 10.000 kg. As suas características mais distintivas são as presas de marfim
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Kruger National Park
Kruger National Park is one of the largest game reserves in Africa. It covers an area of around 20,000 square kilometres in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in northeastern South Africa, and extends 360 kilometres (220 mi) from north to south and 65 kilometres (40 mi) from east to west.
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Parque Nacional Kruger
O Parque Nacional Kruger é a maior área protegida de fauna bravia da África do Sul, cobrindo cerca de 20 000 km2. Está localizado no nordeste do país, nas províncias de Mpumalanga e Limpopo e tem uma extensão de cerca de 360 km de norte a sul e 65 km de leste a oeste.
Os parques nacionais africanos, nas regiões da savana africana são importantes pelo turismo com safári de observação e fotográfico.
O seu nome foi dado em homenagem a Stephanus Johannes Paul Kruger, último presidente da República Sul-Africana bôere. Foi criado em 31 de Maio de 1926
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Here, you can see a prime example of the aforethought extinct, Shy Coastal Gorilla, which was discovered Christmas Day in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Unlike many other gorilla species, the Shy Coastal Gorilla is very thin, tall, and walks erect, leading some to believe that it is the notorious "Missing Link" in the evolutionary process.
The Shy Coastal Gorilla has a voracious appetite, and is an omnivore. Using its unusual, and deceptive charm, it manages to disarm those who would normally be wary of an animal of this size, by gaining their trust and causing them to erroneously believe that it is helpless, and in need of food and shelter. The Shy Coastal Gorilla especially enjoys gaining invites into homes where ham and mashed potatoes are being served, having long ago lost its desire for more organic fare, or the desire to hunt regularly, though it is perfectly able to. .
To identify the Shy Coastal Gorilla, scientists carefully examine the animal's stance, and behavior. Though sometimes found hanging from tree limbs, this species often stands erect, grinning from ear to ear, placing its finger up to its lips, in an effort to appear
innocent. Extreme caution must be used when approaching this animal, as it will use its cunning and ability to engage and entertain passers by, sometimes to the point of hysteria, which has been known to result in some people literally laughing themselves to death!
The Shy Coastal Gorilla can most often be seen in public places like Walmart, or as in this case, my brother's front yard. Do not attempt to approach the Shy Coastal Gorilla if you encounter one. While doing so is not usually dangerous, the most likely result will be that your pantry will be emptied of food. It is advisable not to feed this species unless you want to have it around your neighborhood permanently, which could be advantageous to those suffering from depression.
Several more captures are posted to make identification easier, although when you've seen one, you most likely won't have difficulty distinguishing it from other apes due to its rubber-like, frozen facial features.
The most common physical traits of the Shy Coastal Gorilla are its erect, lanky posture, its black fur, idiotic fixed grin, eyes that may appear to have slipped below the eye socket, and brightly colored, slip on tennis shoes.
Extinct monsters : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson ... with illustrations by J. Smit and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1896.
A single DSLR frame (reduced to 640x480 format). The image was made using cross-polarized light through a petrographic microscope. Field of view is about 0.0003 inch, top to bottom.
The "Ghubara" meteorite is found on the surface of the desert in Ghubara, Jiddat Al Harasis, Oman. Since its discovery in 1954 about 5,000kg have been recovered. It is unusually rich in noble gases and is classified as a regolith breccia L5 meteorite with xenolithic (mixed) inclusions.
A roughly 1:2 macro view of this thin section is here:
www.flickr.com/photos/chipdatajeffb/2703411271/in/set-721...
Thin section acquired from Mike Kagelmacher (Rock-Slides on eBay).
'Endangered and Extinct' by creative recycling artist Val Hunt, an exhibition at Gloucester Cathedral, Saturday 26 September-Sunday 1 November 2020 in the Cloisters
From the Cathedral's website:
"This exhibition presents a subtle message about recycling and preservation, raising awareness of why the creatures on show are endangered or extinct...
Having worked for the past 29 years as a professional maker, Val Hunt continues to be amazed at the versatility of creative recycling. There is an enormous variety of discarded material just waiting to be reconstructed and given a new identity, especially Val's favourite material of drinks can metal. Intricate constructions and interesting textures are key elements found in her work, humour is also an added ingredient whenever possible.
Through experimentation, ingenuity and skill her work is always changing as she discovers new techniques and ways of constructing recycled materials to signal a new meaning. Her works recycles a diverse selection of throwaway material, from these she creates a fascinating selection of large and small sculptural pieces which are both appealing and informative.
Despite her use of manufactured materials, her main inspiration comes from the natural world. Val has a special interest in endangered and extinct species and most of her work reflects this. She makes animals, exotic birds, dinosaurs, insects and species of flora all on the edge or now extinct.
The increasing awareness of the effects of pollution, climate change, plastic in the Ocean and environment destruction on the habitat have influenced Val's work. She now dedicates her making to highlighting the plight of species that are on the edge or gone forever in her touring educational exhibition 'Endangered and Extinct'...
Val's work has been shown in exhibitions around the UK, Denmark, Japan, United Emirates, USA and toured overseas with the British Council. She has work in many permanent collections."
Long dormant volcano. Budj Bim is the source of the Tyrendarra lava flow which extends over 50km to the southwest. It is central to the history of the Gunditjmara people.
Mount Eccles National Park is Victoria’s first co-managed national park. The park is managed by Gunditjmara Traditional Owners and Parks Victoria.
The park’s tranquil crater lake and pleasant bushland surrounds make it a pleasant place for picnicking, camping and bushwalking. Nature trails follow the old crater rim.
A newly described extinct species of bat endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.
Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Extinct: Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Maui, and Hawaiʻi Island)
Collected 1992 at Barbers Point sinkholes, Oʻahu
Specimens retained at the Bishop Museum (Honolulu, Hawaiʻi)
This humerus bone is one of a few bones preserved of this extinct bat.
Looking over towards one extinct volcano from an extinct volcano
Image available for purchase from www.ballaratheritage.com.au
VHR Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Daylesford BotanicGardens cover an area of 10.4 hectares and are bounded by Daley Street, Hill Street, Frazer Street and Central Springs Road. The site on the summit of the extinct volcano of Wombat Hill at an elevation of 667.8 metres, provides a rich soil, cool climate growing conditions, a favourable aspect and excellent views to the surrounding countryside and over the Daylesford township.
The land was first set aside in 1854, reserved as public garden in 1862, and developed from c.1865. The Gardens were extended slightly in 1870 and 1883 and developed with input from noted nineteenth century landscape designer, William Sangster, in 1884-85 whose original plan survives.
Due to the Daylesford Botanic Gardens being sited on top of a hill, the layout of the Gardens is not immediately apparent but several distinct areas can be determined. The central lawn area on the south side has display garden beds, the Alf Headland Conservatory constructed in 1988 to house the annual display of tuberous begonias, and a replica rotunda erected in 1993. The works depot area consists of the curator's residence built in 1948, large sheds, glass houses and two open nurseries. The Pioneers' Memorial Tower built in 1938 offers the opportunity for views across the Gardens and distant landscape, and a place to picnic on the north east side. Adjacent is the Circular Day Basin dating from 1882 which is the earliest known structure to remain in the gardens, although no longer in use. To the west is the large Oval Reservoir constructed in 1888-89 which holds some of Daylesford's water supply with the smaller Lower Service Basin c.1969 to the north, both of which were roofed in the 1990s. One of the main features of the gardens is the extant fernery with cascade, (not operational) designed by Sangster in 1884-85, located on the southern side of the hill. A circuit path meanders through this area. and leads back to the road and into the formal garden area from the Pioneers' Memorial Tower. Much of the existing path layout, including the carriage driveway lined with an avenue of Dutch Elms, have been retained from the nineteenth century, together with the extensive tree planting including many species of conifers, other mature trees and cool climate plants.
How is it significant?
The Daylesford Botanic Gardens are of historic, scientific (botanic), and aesthetic significance to the State of Victoria.
Why is it significant?
The Daylesford Botanic Gardens are historically significant as a fine example of a regional botanic garden demonstrating the typical characteristics of a carriage drive, informal park layout, decorative structures and works such as the memorial tower, conservatory, rotunda, cascade and fernery, which contrasts with the open lawns planted with specimen trees, areas of intensive horticultural interest and close proximity to a township developed during the mid to late nineteenth century.
The Daylesford Botanic Gardens are historically significant for the design input by noted landscape designer William Sangster, and for the survival of his 1884 plan, which is a rare example of a plan from this prolific garden designer.
The Daylesford Botanic Gardens are of scientific (botanic) significance for the extensive conifer collection and cool climate plants. The Gardens contain an outstanding collection of conifers and other mature trees, many of which were donated by renowned botanist Ferdinand von Mueller. Significant trees include Pinus ponderosa (Western Yellow Pine), Pinus coulteri (Big Cone Pine), two Abies nordmanniana (Caucasian Fir), Abies pinsapo, (Spanish Fir) and a Cedrus atlantica f. glauca (Blue Atlas Cedar), Pinus wallichiana (Bhutan Pine), Pinus pinaster (Maritime Pine), Sequoiadendron giganteum (Giant Redwood), (Monkey Puzzle) and Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse Chestnut), many the largest or finest examples in Victoria. Other outstanding trees include a Tilia cordata (Small-leaved European Linden), a row of Cupressus lusitanica (Mexican cypress), a Quercus robur (English Oak) planted in 1863, avenues of Dutch Elms and a rare Quercus leucotrichophora (Himalayan Oak).
The Daylesford Botanic Gardens are of aesthetic significance as a rare example of a botanic garden spectacularly sited on an extinct volcanic cone which allows a panoramic view, aided by the 1938 Pioneers' Memorial Tower, as well as vistas within and out of the gardens and from the township to the gardens. As the most prominent local landmark, the Garden's vertical dominance in the landscape provides a dark contrast to the elms avenues, oaks and other deciduous species.