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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

New Dinosaurus Australia

Australia known as Island with unique animal like Thorny Devil lizard and kangaroo. Scientist from the museum Queensland that lead by Scott Honcnull, announce their finding of new fossil of dinosaurs from Queensland, Australia.

Theropod is carnivores from Tyrannosaurus rex family found bigger and horrific than Velociraptor that found on the Jurassic film.

Those raptor carnivores is named with Australovenator wintonensis and called as Banjo. “He was fast and frisky.” Scott Hocknull said, “ He can catch his prey easily in the open place. The unique weapon of him is big three paw and sharp on each hand. Not like other theropod with small hand like T-rex, while Banjo is different. His hand really function as a weapon. They are velociraptor from Australia, but bigger and frightening

Meanwhile, other two sauropod plant eater named Witonotitan wattsi ( 'Clancy') and Diamantinasaurus matildae ( 'Matilda'). Witonotitan estimated to have a large and high, while supposedly more similar Diamantinasaurus hippopotamus or rhinoceros.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Bengal Tiger

Tiger life more days more difficult, because their habitats are narrower. Their foods more difficult to find, because they compete with human needed. Such as in Sumatra – Indonesia, Tiger is more rare and include as endanger species. Currently we may just can see this animals on the Zoo, if we see in wild nature we will feel fear. As an example are a white Bengal tiger on show in California below that find of a piece of meat and become an exhibition.

White Bengal tiger, dives for a piece of meat at the opening of the new Odin's Temple of the Tiger exhibit at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Thursday, July 9, 2009, in Vallejo, California.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Praying Mantis

Praying mantises, or mantids, large predatory insects of the order Orthoptera, are so named because the spiny forelegs appear to be folded in an attitude of prayer. The uppermost leg segment (the coax), usually small in other insects, is greatly elongated, providing greater reach and allowing the next two segments, the femur and tibia, to be snapped closed against one another as an insect trap. The front portion of the thorax (prothorax), the region just behind the head, is also greatly elongated, forming a necklike structure, mantises are the only insects that can turn their heads to look directly behind them.

As the mantis moves its head to keep its prey in sight, its head stimulated special receptors that send out nerve impulses that automatically and instantly adjust the distance and angle of the mantis’s strike. In captivity the female mantis may kill and eat the male immediately after or even during mating, but this behavior is not common in the wild. Mantis eggs are laid in a frothy egg case in fall and hatch in spring.


The common praying mantis, shown grasping prey with its forelegs, is legally protected in some areas as a destroyer of insect pests.