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  Smallest Creature that Lives Underground
Posted by: scilover - 09-25-2020, 01:51 PM - Forum: Invertebrate and Insects - No Replies
What we knew is, earth’s deep biosphere is home to millions of undiscovered species. 10 years ago, expert has found few species of Springtail that lives about 1.8 km underground. Yes! 1.8 km! So, even though they are small in size, but they are consider tough to harsh underground environment. But they are not insect even though the have six legs, a head, thorax and abdomen. So what are they basically?


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  Stan the Tyrannosaurus is in trouble
Posted by: DinoFan83 - 09-20-2020, 02:11 AM - Forum: Dinosaurs - No Replies
https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-stan-the-t-rex-bhi3033-from-auction?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

Long story short, unless enough money is raised in time, Stan the Tyrannosaurus rex (one of the most well preserved specimens and very beneficial to palaeontologists) will go into the hands of a private collector and will be lost to science forever. I recommend any dinosaur fans who are able to do so to donate as much money as they can afford.
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  Contacts !
Posted by: TheNormalGuy - 09-16-2020, 12:41 AM - Forum: Research, Discoveries & Articles - Replies (4)
Here we could do a list of wildlife contacts (People/Organizations).

I wanted to ask if anyone had contacts with wolves experts ?

I am studying biology at University with the goal of becoming a wolf researcher !
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  South American cougar (Puma concolor concolor)
Posted by: BorneanTiger - 08-31-2020, 10:02 PM - Forum: Puma - Replies (73)
The South American cougar (Puma concolor concolor) is the nominate subspecies of cougars found in South America, possibly excluding those northwest of the Andes, which might be of the northern subspecies: https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/hand...f?#page=33

At Torres del Paine National Park, in the Chilean part of the Patagonian region, south of the Amazon River:

A family with 2 cubs at Lagoe Pehoe, just  across the lake from Salto Grande waterfall, by Murray Foubister (16th of December, 2015):
   

Jan Fleischmann (12th of April, 2017) said that this Patagonian male was 8090 kg (176.370–198.416 lbs)!
   

The male hiding behind a rock, by Jan Fleischmann:
   

Then the male walked up and passed by Fleischmann:
   
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  North American cougar (Puma concolor couguar)
Posted by: BorneanTiger - 08-31-2020, 09:46 PM - Forum: Puma - Replies (41)
The North American cougar (Puma concolor couguar) is the subspecies of cougars native to North America, and it is possible that cougars in northwest South America (northwest of the Andes) belong to this subspecies: https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/hand...f?#page=33

As I mentioned earlier, the cougar can be found in the vicinity of major American urban areas, such as Los Angeles in California:

Where do mountain lions hunt in Los Angeles? https://www.theverge.com/2016/7/15/12187...ucla-study

Credit: Steve Winter / National Geographic
   
   

Though the Eastern cougar (the type specimen for the subspecies, which had been present in northeastern North America), is classified as extinct or extirpated, within the eastern part of the U.S.A., the Florida panther (formerly Puma concolor coryi / floridana), still exists, thankfully:

Photo of an Eastern cougar by Lavonda Walton of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service:
   

Floridan cougar at Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Naples, credit: The National Geographic
   

Floridan panthers fighting:



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  Torvosaurus spp.
Posted by: DinoFan83 - 08-27-2020, 08:09 PM - Forum: Dinosaurs - Replies (1)
Torvosaurus (/ˌtɔːrvoʊˈsɔːrəs/) is a genus of carnivorous megalosauroid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 153 to 148 million years ago during the Late Jurassic Period (Callovian to Tithonian) in what is now the United States, Portugal, and potentially having specimens in Tanzania, Germany, and Uruguay as well, making it one of the most widespread theropods known. It contains two currently recognized species, Torvosaurus tanneri and Torvosaurus gurneyi, as well as possibly Torvosaurus ingens if the referral of "Megalosaurus" ingens teeth from the Tendaguru to this genus is correct.
In 1979 the type species Torvosaurus tanneri was named: it was a large, heavily built, bipedal carnivore, that could grow to a length of about 10 m. T. tanneri was among the largest carnivores of its time. Based on bone morphology Torvosaurus is thought to have had a massive, robust skull with very large teeth, stout hind legs, and short but very powerful arms.
Torvosaurus was a very large predator, and overall estimates encompassing all possible specimens suggest sizes of 9-13.7 meters and masses from 2000-7000 kg, making Torvosaurus among the largest land carnivores of the Jurassic.
Thomas Holtz estimated it at 12 meters. The T. gurneyi specimens from Portugal initially prompted larger size estimates to be made. In 2006 a lower end of a thighbone, specimen ML 632, was referred to Torvosaurus sp. and later to T. gurneyi. This specimen was initially stated to indicate a length of 11 meters, and applying the extrapolation method of J.F. Anderson correlating mammal weights to their femur circumference, resulted in a weight of 1930 kilogrammes. However, after its description and released measurements in 2014, a length of 12.2 meters and weight of 5000 kt is a more plausible value, although the holotype maxilla ML 1100 is indicative of a 9 meter and 2000 kg animal. Among the differentiating features between T. gurneyi and T. tanneri are the number of teeth and the size and shape of the mouth. While the upper jaw of T. tanneri has more than 11 teeth, that of T. gurneyi has less. For its size, Torvosaurus was a very big headed animal, with the largest discovered cranial material indicating a 136 cm skull and with some postcranial specimens likely having skulls more than 160 cm long.
Typical of megalosaurids, the skull of Torvosaurus was wide, robust, and heavily built, with a kink in its profile just above the large nostrils. The frontmost snout bone, the praemaxilla, bore three rather flat teeth oriented somewhat outwards with the front edge of the teeth crown overlapping the outer side of the rear edge of the preceding crown. The maxilla was tall and bore at least eleven rather long teeth. The antorbital fenestra was relatively short. The lacrimal bone had a distinctive lacrimal horn on top; its lower end was broad in side view. The eye socket was tall with a pointed lower end. The jugal was long and transversely thin. The lower front side of the quadrate bone was hollowed out by a tear-shaped depression, the contact surface with the quadratojugal. Both the neck vertebrae and the front dorsal vertebrae had relatively flexible ball-in-socket joints. The balls, on the front side of the vertebral centra, had a wide rim, a condition by Britt likened to a Derby hat. The tail base was stiffened in the vertical plane by high and in side view wide neural spines. The upper arm was robust; the lower arm robust but short. Whether the thumb claw was especially enlarged, is uncertain. In the pelvis, the ilium resembled that of Megalosaurus and had a tall, short, front blade and a longer pointed rear blade. The pelvis as a whole was massively built, with the bone skirts between the pubic bones and the ischia contacting each other and forming a vaulted closed underside.
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  Mugger crocodile (Crocodylus palustris)
Posted by: Bitishannah - 08-27-2020, 06:46 PM - Forum: Aquatic Animals and Amphibians - Replies (14)
The mugger crocodile (Crocodylus palustris), also called marsh crocodile, broad-snouted crocodile and mugger, is a crocodilian native to freshwater habitats from southern Iran to the Indian subcontinent. It is extinct in Bhutan and Myanmar and has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1982.


It is a medium-sized crocodile that inhabits lakes, rivers, marshes and artificial ponds. Both young and adult mugger crocodiles dig burrows where they retreat when temperature drops below 5 °C (41 °F) or exceeds 38 °C (100 °F). Females dig holes in the sand as nesting sites and lay up to 46 eggs during the dry season.Sex of hatchlings depends on temperature during incubation.It preys on fish, reptiles, birds and mammals. Young feed on insects.

It is one of three crocodilians in India, apart from saltwater crocodile (C. porosus) and gharial (Gavialis gangeticus).
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  Mahi mahi (Coryphaena hippurus) pictoral
Posted by: DinoFan83 - 08-27-2020, 08:36 AM - Forum: Wildlife Pictures and Videos Gallery - No Replies

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  Megalosaurus bucklandii
Posted by: DinoFan83 - 08-16-2020, 06:33 PM - Forum: Dinosaurs - Replies (1)
Megalosaurus (meaning "Great Lizard", from Greek μέγας, megas, meaning 'big', 'tall' or 'great' and σαῦρος, sauros, meaning 'lizard') is an extinct genus of large meat-eating theropod dinosaur of the Middle Jurassic period (Bathonian stage, 166 million years ago) of Southern England. Although fossils from other areas have been assigned to the genus, the only certain remains of Megalosaurus come from Oxfordshire and date to the later part of the Middle Jurassic.
Being named in 1824, Megalosaurus was the first genus of dinosaur to receive a scientific name. The type species is Megalosaurus bucklandii, named in 1827. In 1842, Megalosaurus was one of three genera on which Richard Owen based his Dinosauria. On Owen's directions a model was made as one of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, which greatly increased the public interest for prehistoric reptiles. 
Subsequently, over fifty other species would be classified under the genus, originally because dinosaurs were not well known, but even during the 20th century after many dinosaurs had been discovered. Today it is understood these additional species were not directly related to M. bucklandii, which is the only true Megalosaurus species. Because a complete skeleton of it has never been found, much is still unclear about its build.
The first naturalists who investigated Megalosaurus mistook it for a gigantic lizard of 20 metres (66 ft) length. In 1842, Owen concluded that it was no longer than 9 metres, standing on upright legs. He still thought it was a quadruped, though. Modern scientists, by comparing Megalosaurus with its direct relatives in the Megalosauridae, were able to obtain a more accurate picture. 
Megalosaurus may have weighed up to 2000 kg. It was bipedal, walking on stout hindlimbs with its horizontal torso balanced by a horizontal tail. Its forelimbs were very robust and large for its size, with the arm bones being proportionally similar in length to those of bears and big cats but much greater in circumference. 

Megalosaurus had an enormous head even by the standards of theropods, with the largest specimens almost certainly having skulls over 1.4 meters long. Its skull and jaws were massively constructed and full of serrated teeth, and its overall build was stout and stocky.
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  Snow leopard conservation center.
Posted by: raachotreks - 08-16-2020, 10:20 AM - Forum: Leopard - Replies (2)
Is it the first? I think there is one more conservation center operating in Laddakh.
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