And, just at the end of our morning trip, I completed my sighting of all the “Big Five” animals by coming across anAfrican Buffalo(Syncerus caffer). This is an old male (probably about 20, says Dan), and the horns have grown together. FromWikipedia: A characteristic feature of the ...
The Cretaceous Period ended 66 mya with the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. This catastrophic event caused the extinction of the dinosaurs (that is, all of the dinosaurs that hadn’t evolved into birds) and many other species. You can find out more about the Cretaceous–Paleogene Extinctio...
Evolution of similar features in unrelated organisms as adaptations to similar lifestyles, e.g. wings in birds and bats. Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us, add a li...
(4) Long arm. In accordance with the display rules in Cytogenetics, the short arm is on top. Image: Wikipedia. (Phys.org) -- Fruit flies are commonly used in genetics research because their lifespan is short, they are easy to breed in the laboratory, and mutants are widely available. ...
birds, and even small mammals such as bats and lemurs to do their business for them. The stunning variety of shapes, sizes, colours, and odours of flowers in the world today have arisen to seduce and retain this range of pollinators. Some plant species are generalists, while others have ...
(It is virtually the rule for birds. Chicks must grow fast to achieve flight before the seasons change. This, plus a high metabolism, means few avian young survive on the labor of one parent alone.) Now by definition, monogamous species have approximately equal numbers of successful male and...
The butterflies then turned the situation to their advantage by evolving the ability to not only eat the poisonous leaves, but to sequester the cyanide in their bodies and use it to themselves become poisonous to their predators, such as birds. The plants’ next strategy was to mimic the ...
Both the African Pygmy Falcon and Pearl Kite are around 8 to 9 inches long and prey on lizards, birds, insects, and other small prey. They also both stand out because they are bright white below (unusual for raptors), gray above, have a lot of white in the face (most notably on the...
vivax (green), or two species (purple) on the basis of the Pf3K data set (Supplementary Information; Methods). Stars indicate origin of sample used for reference genome assembly and points show additional samples used. Map sourced from Wikipedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ ...
The results suggest that blinking may be among the suite of traits that evolved to allow the transition to life on land in tetrapods the group of animals that includes mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians -'some 375 million years ago. ...