The Dino trail houses 30 animatronic dinosaurs Insectlandia displays several highlights on different giant insects of the Mesozoic era the Unearth Museum is a "fossil repository" showcasing different ways to learn about the prehistoric age. More than just a Freeport Zone: How Clark has become a ...
if the insects rely on post-fire environments; the introduction of non-native predators such as large ground beetles; and introduction of non-native earthworms, which significantly altered the
(which are now the largest animals on Earth, some even eclipsing the sizes of the largest dinosaurs), jumping frogs, walking turtles and crocodiles, insects buzzing around flowers, and all the mayhem of modern biodiversity we have the fortune of appreciating today—and which we now must ...
noraptorwas more dangerous thanUtahraptor, adult specimens of which weighed almost a ton (compared to 200 pounds at most, for an exceptionally bigDeinonychus). TheUtahraptor'scharacteristic sickle-shaped toe claws were nine inches long and incredibly sharp. Weirdly, this giant raptor lived 50 mil...
arthropods, entomology, insects...doi:10.1155/1972/25489McCluskey Elwood S.Brown William L.PsychePsyche A Journal of EntomologyMcCluskey ES, Brown WL (1972) Rhythms and other biology of the giant tropical ant Paraponera. Psyche 79:335-347...
(about 13 feet long and about 300 pounds) has bounced around the classification bins ever since its discovery in Japan. At first, this dinosaur's giant hand claws were misidentified as belonging on its feet, and it was classified as a raptor (a legacy that endures in its name). Today, ...
Giant InsectsIt is this high oxygen content that is believed to be the cause of the gigantic arthropods that lived in these forests. A dragonfly called Meganeura had a wingspan 70 cm! The centipede like Arthropleura could reach a length of 1.8 meters and giant scorpions grew over 50 cm ...
Euramerica and Gondwana became one, forming perhaps the most famous supercontinent of them all:Pangaea. The giant ocean surrounding Pangaea was called Panthalassa. Pangaea's interior was likely very dry, because its massive size prevented water-bearing rain clouds from penetrating far beyond the coas...
Even known predators foraging on trees such as the bullet ant Paraponera clavata, sometimes called the ‘omnivorous giant tropical ant’ (Larson et al., 2014), occasionally rely on liquid food such as EFN (Hölldobler and Wilson, 1990). Plant wound secretions, and both floral and ...
During the Cenozoic, mammals evolved from their somewhat insignificant stature during the Mesozoic to include giant species that have gone extinct in modern times. While none of the mammals ever reached the size of the dinosaurs, there were some species that dwarfed their modern-day relatives. Ever...