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The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana, is a species of artiodactyl* mammal indigenous to interior western and central North America. Though not an antelope, it is often known colloquially in North America as the American antelope, prong buck, pronghorn antelope, prairie antelope, or simply antelope because it closely resembles the true antelopes of the Old World and fills a similar ecological niche due to parallel evolution.
It is the only surviving member of the family Antilocapridae. During the Pleistocene period, about 12 antilocaprid species existed in North America. Three other genera (Capromeryx, Stockoceros and Tetrameryx) existed when humans entered North America but are now extinct.
Grazing along the side of the road just outside of Magdalena. Once disturbed these does took off. The pronghorn is the fastest animal in the western hemisphere, running in 20-foot bounds at up to 60 miles per hour so I wasn't about to chase them!
*even-toed
Head shot of the remains of an extinct camel found at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California, now on exhibit at the George C. Page Museum. Its head was larger, its limbs were longer, and its joints were knobbier than the modern dromedary camel. Camels originated in North America about 45 million years ago, according to a descriptive placard accompanying the exhibit.
The white rhinoceros or square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is the largest extant species of rhinoceros. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species. The white rhinoceros consists of two subspecies: the southern white rhinoceros and the much rarer northerner white rhinoceros.
A giant sea monster reaches out of Hull Maritime Museum towards East Yorkshire Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini 750 - YX09 BKF on service 55 to the Interchange.
I first saw Canada geese in Yellowstone in the 1960s. It was a big deal - they were at risk of going extinct.
I have seen a few more geese since then.
Mountain Creek campground, Yellowstone National Park.
Animal extinct .org . Updated list of extinct species 2030 .
"Environment unfriendly" cows should be immediately destroyed ! Spiders and worms are the best !
Eurasian hoopoe Swedish: Härfågel Latin: Pupa epops. In 1920 the species was extinct in Sweden but did a comeback in 1980-90. Breeding rarely occurs in Sweden nowadays. DSC_7963
I knew rhino's were big but I was surprised to actually see how big when I saw my first Rhino at Perth Zoo.
I think what surprised me was they not only were big but long as well.
I started reading about their population numbers and I actually can't believe that this beautiful creature is not only threatened but nearly extinct.
One of five photos.
This is the largest & rarest of our (UK) blue butterflies & has always been rare in Britain but became extinct in 1979. It has since been reintroduced from continental Europe as part of a long term & highly successful conservation project; by 2004 it occurred on 9 sites in the southern part of Britain. The Large Blue is declining throughout its worlds range & is a globally Endangered species.
During a few days holiday in June we stumbled upon the Daneway wildlife trust reserve (thanks to a satnav app) & were delighted not only to see the Large Blue but as we were about to leave the reserve I found a pair mating. Unfortunately, didn't manage to get a top view.
Those who know me will know Richard (husband) & I are quite competitive & I was in a real quandary whether to tell him of my sighting; I decided I had to or my life would have been hell!!
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Bamgol Village - Seoul, Korea
The following day, this house was leveled as part of Seoul's "gentrification project"
What is effectively a 613 feet high extinct volcano sits just outside North Berwick on the southern side of the Firth of Forth, and acts as a landmark that can be seen for many miles around. The conical hill known as North Berwick Law rises conspicuously from the surrounding landscape. The Lowland Scots word "law" means conical hill.
Geologically, the law is a volcanic plug of hard phonolitic trachyte rock of Carboniferous (Dinantian) age and was formed over 320 million years ago when this region was subjected to considerable volcanic activity. It has survived the scraping glaciers of the ice age. It is a crag and tail with a prominent tail extending eastwards.
The summit bears remnants of an Iron Age hill fort, and the ruins of later military buildings that were once used by lookouts in both the Napoleonic Wars and in World War II. A whale's jawbone has stood on the top of the law since 1709, the last one having been there since 1933. However, it eventually rotted away and was replaced by a fibreglass replica airlifted into place in 2008. This gave North Berwick Law back its famous landmark.
Extinct in the UK by the end of the 19th century, the Bittern has made a very slow recovery - with only 11 booming males recorded in the whole of the UK in 1997. I remember as a kid the Bittern was seen as almost a mythical creature - like the Great Auk or Dodo (OK - slight exaggeration).
Thankfully they are now on the increase thanks to habitat preservation / renewal and people preferring to see and hear them rather than shoot them.
Still a rare UK bird, nothing quite the same as picking one up in your peripheral vision flying low over the reed bed, but even better to seen one stalking around the reed bed margins!
An oddity of a consist: power from its fiercest competitor leading CP(KC) 421 and the last active SD90 trailing online, knock down the searchlights atop the iron cantilever at Bartlett together during the end of the first wave of summer power shortages in the wake of the KCS acquisition last year.
Within just 2 weeks last month, news broke that both 3747 and Bartlett somewhat unexpectedly and suddenly reached expiry. Scrap yards in the US acquired contracts in February-March 2024 to strip the remaining stock of SD90MACs in CP's roster for parts. Unfortunately, 3747 wasn't spared this fate, confirmed with a sighting on April 4th of it being actively dissassembled by a scrap yard in Missouri.
On April 16th, at 09:00 am, the site supervisor present on the North Toronto would give the order to all trains on the Subdivision to disregard signalling as crews severed the power assembly across the span of about 30 minutes. The only exception to this was an allegedly battery powered circuit on the ground mast here at Bartlett, which burned for at least another 24 hours. Then the assemblies of each were slowly sawed off and towed by truck to whatever scrap yard they were destined for over the course of about 2 days.
Proximity to the subdivision allowed me to react timely to last-minute heads-ups I got about oddballs such as this, and it still blows my mind how much the scene has changed in 7 months: CP had SD9043MACs active and 4 iron cantilever masts were still around to be shot. Now all have been hit by the torch. See you guys in another 40 years once the CN GEVO fleet also faces scrap?
Ink and ecoline ink on paper. A Currach is a near Extinct type of boat from Ireland, made from wicker covered with hide. St. Brendan supposedly traveled to Iceland 'and beyond' in one of these.
A spectacular cave deep in subtropical rainforest at Springbrook National Park, surrounded by towering extinct volcanos, part of a much larger World Heritage Area. Natural Bridge (or Natural Arch) has a large waterfall flowing right through its roof. During the day tourists picnic nearby. In darkest night, brave souls venture in to see the cave sparking with glowworms. It’s just minutes from the Queensland and New South Wales borders in Australia, and close to the Springbrook Astronomical Observatory.
© David K. Edwards. I am certain that this screams "Jurassic!" at you. And during those millions of years, it was attacked by Fractalius.
Semi-abstract shot of the flank of an extinct volcano, contrasting with blue sky and white clouds near El Golfo in Lanzarote.
Whenever we get a decent bit of rain, a little stream forms in the yard that flows into a nearby stormdrain. I took some of my toys outside to take photos of them in the water. I think the Kronosaurus looks very happy to be in the water! :-)
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Merci Pierre pour l'idée ! :-)
X is for eXtinct.
Takahē were thought to be extinct until live birds discovered in in Fiordland 1948. These birds were photographed on our trip to Kapiti Island near Wellington in 2005 (and used in many a school project subsequently)
There are now about 400 living takahē.
Porphyrio hochstetteri.
Extinct volcano Karadag - one of the oldest on the planet (closed territory of the Karadag nature reserve).
Crimea / Ukraine / Black Sea.
(3727) DWL96 YR06HNT seen at Edgware working on route 288 towards Queensbury.
No longer appears in London, thus was taken on it's final day of service.
Une foliole de fougère venue se poser dans un dernier élan sur une vieille souche de pin, pour goûter au plaisir réchauffant d'un rayon de soleil, avant l'extinction des feux (47)
The Chacoan Peccary was first identified from fossil remains discovered in the 1930's, but it was not until 1975 that scientists confirmed that it was not extinct, making it one of the most recently discovered large mammals. Residing on the high plains of the Gran Chaco in South America, these peccaries use their leathery snouts to roll cacti on the ground to remove spines before eating. Chacoan peccaries are endangered due to habitat fragmentation and destruction, as well as hunting.
There are three species of peccary in the world and Catagonus wagneri is the largest of them all. They are the closest living relative to the extinct Platygonus pearcei.
This peccary was seen and photographed at San Francisco Zoo.
This was taken outside of the Indianapolis Children's Museum, where they have giant dinosaurs bursting from the side of the building.
Formed by eruptions of "sticky" lava that adheres to itself, building up relatively steep cones surrounding the vent.
The track on the right leads to a view of the now extinct vent inside the nearest cone.
Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Idaho.
View the complete "card book" at www.networkosaka.com/content/projects/extinct/
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Hope you guys like it! :-)
PS: Credit where credit is due, the A-Z concept was inspired by Jeremy Pettis' 26 Animals project