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Bear Lodge Butte, known more commonly as Devil's Tower, is the core of an extinct ancient volcano, and is sacred to the many indigenous tribes of the surrounding region, who have revered it as a sacred site for millennia. The butte stands 867 feet (264 meters) tall, and rises 1,267 feet (386 meters) atop a stone outcrop above the adjacent Belle Fourche River. The butte became a National Monument in 1906, owing to its significance as a natural geologic formation, but unfortunately, this did not include the similar, though less eroded, Missouri Buttes to the northwest.
The butte is a dramatic rock formation that rises out of the surrounding landscape and is visible from miles away. Surrounded by a bluff made of sedimentary rock, the butte towers over the grassy lowlands along the Belle Fourche River, today home to wildlife, including a colony of prairie dogs. The butte stands out among the surrounding lowlands, being visible from roadways miles away, enticing tourists to stop at pull-outs to take photos and marvel at the majesty of the butte.
The butte is known to the local indigenous tribes as the "Bear's House" or "Bear Lodge," but was given the name "Devil's Tower" by a European-American visitor to the area, who misinterpreted the indigenous names of the butte. There have been ongoing efforts since the early 21st Century to change the name back to "Bear Lodge," but these have been opposed by government officials due to fears of decreased tourism.
Flightless
- extinct -
Subfossil. Note: Only three Apteribis types comprise
this genus. | Threskiornithidae: Apteribis brevis; | A. glenos & A. sp.*
1.) Upper Maui
2.) Lower Maui
3.) Molokai
and Hawai`i
* Un-yet classified.
B. P. Bishop
Museum
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Unikonta
(unranked): Obazoa
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Clade: ParaHoxozoa
Clade: Bilateria
Clade: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclass: Tetrapoda
(unranked) Amniota
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Theriimorpha
Clade: Theriiformes
Clade: Trechnotheria
Clade: Cladotheria
Clade: Zatheria
Clade: Tribosphenida
Clade: Eutheria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Clade: Exafroplacentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
(unranked): Scrotifera
Grandorder: Ferungulata
Clade: Ungulata
Order: Artiodactyla
Suborder: Tylopoda
Family: †Xiphodontidae
Genus: †Xiphodon
Species: †X. intermedium
Skull of steppe wisent, or bison, at Natural History Museum, London.
Bison priscus Bojanus, 1827
Bovidae
Cetartiodactyla
Gallirallus owstoni.
This small bird is extinct in the wild. Extirpated from its native island of Guam by the introduced predatory Brown Tree Snake, it now exists only in captivity in Guam and in 15 U.S. zoos. There are less than 200 on the planet.
Fresno Chaffee Zoo
Skull of extinct koala lemur at Galerie de Paleontologie, Paris.
Megaladapis Forsyth Major, 1894
Lepilemuridae
Primates
TEED (Totally Enourmous Extinct Dinosaurs) plays The Mod Club.
I covered it for blogTO and Tyler Burton's article:
www.blogto.com/music/2011/11/teed_touch_down_at_the_mod_c...
The horse family has lived in North America for about 50 million years. Beginning with an ancestor only two feet tall, horses have increased in size and diversity throughout their long history. They migrated to Europe, Asia and Africa before becoming extinct in the New World at the end of the Pleistocene. The wild mustangs found in the west today are descendants of modern horses brought to the New World by the early Spanish conquistadors.
Walkign across the parking lot today, my son asked what this sign meant. And suddenly it hit me - I'd been overlooking this particular object for my "endangered species" series. I'm certain this store no longer actually offers this service, so I explained film vs. digital to the kids and took this for today's shot (as well as use in my endangered species project).
First print in the series.
Series of 8, edition of 4.
3 on Strathmore watermarked letter and 1 on handmade paper.
Stonehenge Book Black paper folio.
Xylene transfer of the halftone animal image.
Screen print of the year of extinction.
Letterpress latin animal name.
Male Irish elk skull and antlers at Cambridge Zoology Museum.
Megaloceros giganteus (Blumenbach, 1799)
Cervidae
Cetartiodactyla
Fossil of Leptictidium auderiense at Galerie de Paleontologie, Paris.
Leptictidium auderiense Tobien, 1962
Pseudorhynchocyonidae
Leptictida
this banksy on newman st central london has sadly been painted over in boris johnsons clean up drive for the 2012 olympics