Habitat: Streams and swamps in the Amazon and Orinoco basins Size: Length: Up to 18 in; Weight: 30 pounds Diet: Fish, frogs, insects Conservation Status: Near Threatened This South American freshwater turtle is found in the Amazon and Orinoco basins, primarily in slow-moving streams and swamp...
Most of the animals in South America can be found either in theAmazon Rainforestor along the Andes mountains. If you’re looking for wildlife, you can generally check nearby wooded areas and expansive grasslands. Most animals like to have shelter and tree cover, but many of the local herbivo...
Lawrence, Missouri, and Mississippi river basins. They are also found in major rivers of the West Coast from California to Idaho up through British Columbia. Their range along the European Atlantic coast includes the basins of the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas and the major rivers of Northern ...
Devonian Period, in geologic time, an interval of the Paleozoic Era that follows the Silurian Period and precedes the Carboniferous Period, spanning between about 419.2 million and 358.9 million years ago. It is sometimes called the ‘Age of Fishes’ bec
Both the continental and oceanic crusts lie over a more uniform layer called the mantle. As an analogy, one can think of a thick piece of styrofoam and a thin piece of wood floating in a tub of water. The styrofoam rises higher out of the water than the wood. The ocean basins are ...
Central Asia and the Iranian plateau are home to Asian animals adapted to life in arid steppe grasslands and desert basins, expect for the high mountains and plateaux where you will find forest animals. Deserts like the Gobi desert might seem relentless, but quite a few animals have still mana...
scientists consider the forest bison to be a subspecies of the primitive bison (Bison priscus) that has survived to this day . Until now, they have survived only in deaf swampy spruce forests in the basins of the Pease, Buffalo, Birch rivers (flow into the Athabasca and Great Slave lakes...
Wild Yak is the biggest wild animal in Tibet Tibet plateau stretches 1800km north to south and 2500km east to west, with an area of 2,500,000square kilometres, the Tibetan Plateau originates the headwaters of the drainage basins of most of the streams in surrounding regions. Its tens of ...
Located in Africa along the Atlantic coast about 400 miles north of the equator, Ghana has a mostly tropical climate with alternate wet and dry seasons. The northern part of the country has a rainy season from April to October and is dry and dusty from N
Nordic mountains. Rapid erosion of these mountains contributed large amounts of sediment to lowlands and shallow ocean basins. Sea levels were high with much of western North America under water. Climate of the continental interior regions was very warm during the Devonian Period and generally quite...