earthstory reblogged
*Me working on summer class hw*
Topic: Earthquakes
Also me: "Wouldn't it be ironic if an earthquake hit right now?.."
*proceeds to stare at any table and lamp movement paranoid*
dan.galati
A lone cheetah jumps up on the Landcruiser to escape the intense heat after feeding. These clients yesterday were treated to a close encounter and the safari guide also managed to grab a selfie. This behaviour occurs in Maasai Mara and Serengeti. These cheetahs are quite relaxed around humans.
It’s important to stay calm in these situations, to just observe and not touch them. Give the cheetah time to recover and it will eventually take off again. .
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rg.fossilhunter
For #fossilfriday here is a « Lytoceras fimbriatum » from the lower Pliensbachian of Burgundy ! They are usually poorly preserved but this one is, in comparison to the others, very nice! I also tried to sensitize my ginger cat to fossils but for the moment he is not truly receptive😂 I guess he is more into hunting lizards and naps!
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Extinction of the Dodo Bird
The dodo bird (Raphus cucullatus) was a large flightless bird from Mauritius (a small isolated island just east of Madagascar). It averaged at around 3 feet tall and 22-40 lbs. The dodo bird was last seen in 1662.
Prior to the introduction of non-native species by humans, dodos had no natural predators on Mauritius, and therefore evolved to become large-bodied, relatively latent in their mobility, and pretty much fearless of larger animals. Humans arrived on Mauritius in 1598. The introduction of the European's cats, rats, pigs, dogs, etc. quickly led to not only their demise, but also the destruction of the dodos' nests, and the killing of their young and eggs. One of the first explorers of Mauritius also described the dodo bird as being extremely delicious, and large enough to feed two people.
From human arrival in 1598, it only took 60 years to demolish the dodo species. Researchers are now looking into possibly using cloning as a method of bringing the dodo back to life, which may cure the long-lived curiosity everyone has on what the dodo ate (provided that feeding behaviour is an instinctual trait, not a learned trait), how it would mate, and what it really looked like (you can watch a video on the dispute of the dodo's actual morphology here:http://bit.ly/1G8dNZK ).
~Rosie
Image: http://bit.ly/1CRMvU7
References: http://dodobird.net/
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wildography_and_safaris
Rawrrr!
Lion Cub Cuteness, Selinda, Botswana
by #wildographer & @royalafricansafaris co-owner guide @richcoke75
https://royalafricansafaris.com/
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earthstory reblogged
This is the coolest thing at the Page Museum/La Brea Tar Pits: a Smilodon growth series where you can see how saberkitten baby teeth get pushed out by the adult sabers.
earthstory reblogged
Geode cats by Art of Maquenda
These are...interesting.
earthstory reblogged
Saber-Toothed Cat
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
Found in the La Brea Tar Pits.
earthstory reblogged
Saber-Toothed Cat
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
Found in the La Brea Tar Pits.
Sabertooth Cat Skull 💀
Killer Teeth and a Fearsome Gape! 10,000-40,000 years old Pleistocene Epoch
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amurleo_land Amur leopards are the most rare big cats on the planet. Camera traps help us learn so much about the animals who call this world home! This is such incredible footage taken within The Land of the Leopard (@amurleo_land) that shows camera trap footage of four Amur leopards in one spot over just a course of a few days!
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- Hyena are often vilified, especially in popular media. But, as you can see here they can be incredibly adorable like this curious young pup I filmed in Kruger National Park, South Africa ... my adopted home. I moved to just outside of this huge park five years ago from Australia, having never been to South Africa before. It was the best and most difficult decision I’ve ever made, coming to a country and a continent that didn’t know my work. I’d established myself in Australia as a successful animal photographer for the previous decade and now I was somewhere that didn’t know me or my work, I had to start all over again. The past five years have been an incredible journey for me, filled with memorable once in a lifetime experiences and cheating death on more than one occasion. From not working at all to working more than I ever have, meeting inspiring people and organizations and along the way hopefully inspiring you with some of the content I get to share.
shannon__wild
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oeildanslemonde
A Cheetah in full sprint 🙀⚡️⠀ The fastest mammal in the world has a very powerful musculature. A cheetah can, in a single stride, increase its speed by 10 km / h or decelerate by 15 km / h.
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paleoparadox
One of my old after school students is working on an exhibit project about fossil tracks for her honors paleontology class. She created this photogrammetry model of a 15 million year old feline track way from Barstow, California. Not bad right??? Go Angeline!
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sashidhar_vempala
We Can never take that look easy.
wildlife.hub
~ This Tiger’s stare is intense🐅⠀ While most cats despise water, tigers love taking baths to help keep themselves cool during the hottest parts of the day. They'll submerge themselves in nearby lakes and streams, soaking for up to an hour, but neck deep only. Tigers don't like getting water in their eyes, to the point that they'll actually enter the water backwards to prevent this from happening.⠀
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