Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus? –Jessica Simpson One of the informal rules of OOTW is that I had to have seen the critter or plant, but we’re bending the rule a bit in honor of Steve in the Seattle office who is soon moving to Australia. And […]
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The dwarf or white-bark pine is the species that forms the timber-line, where it is so completely dwarfed that one may walk over the top of a bed of it as over snow-pressed chaparral. John Muir This is a slow-growing and long-lived pine found in the mountains of southwest Canada and the western U.S. It
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“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.” – Werner Herzog The taxonomy of this fish has been controversial and while the species name pectoralis has remained constant scientists have struggled with the genus. It has been classified in the genus Macrurus, Albatrossia, Coryphaenoides
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Twinkle Twinkle little bat. How I wonder what you’re at! Up above the world you fly, like a tea-tray in the sky. The Mad Hatter, Lewis Carroll Myotis – from the Greek mys for mouse and otus for ear; and lucifugus – flee from the light. The little brown bat is found throughout most of North America extending through
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Hellbenders are the largest salamander in North America. There are two subspecies -the Allegheny and the Ozark hellbender. Some taxonomists (splitters) believe they are two are separate species, but recent DNA work indicates otherwise. The Allegheny hellbender is found in a number of Mid-Atlantic/southern states from southern New York to Georgia. The Ozarks subspecies is
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