Woolly Mammoth
Woolly Mammoth Woolly Mammoths really should be around today. Isolated pockets of theses creatures lived until historic times, dying out only 4,000 to 6,000 years ago. And we've got frozen specimens...
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Woolly Rhinoceros Everyone knows that woolly things are superior to non-woolly things. Case in point, the Woolly Rhinoceros, a species that lived throughout Europe and Asia until about 10,000 years...
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Dire Wolf We're not saying that commercial interests should trump science when it comes to choosing which animals to bring back, but the explosive popularity of Game of Thrones certainly puts dire...
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Megacerops Imagine the great cracking sound that must have thundered across North Americas plains when Megacerops males fought in head-to-head combat. These rhino-like creatures have awesome Y-shaped...
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Window Into Jupiter's Clouds The dark hot spot in this false-color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is a window deep into Jupiter's atmosphere. All around it are layers of higher clouds, with...
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Giant Ground Sloth
Giant Ground Sloth What could be more awesome than a sloth? A bucket of baby sloths. Or, one really, really big sloth. Megatherium was as big as an elephant, measuring as much as 20 feet from head to...
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Hubble Spies Beautiful Globules Strangely glowing dark clouds float serenely in this remarkable and beautiful image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. These dense, opaque dust clouds - known as...
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Paraceratherium
Paraceratherium A lot of the animals we find ourselves wishing for are bigger versions of something similar that is still living. Some are just big. Paraceratherium is probably the biggest land mammal...
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15,000-Pixel-Wide Panorama of Mt. Sharp This mosaic of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows Mount Sharp in raw color as recorded by the camera (see below for full...
View ArticleE. palpebralis
E. palpebralis, another species of wood lizard. (Andreas Schlueter, CalPhotos)
View ArticleE. praestabilis
Male E. praestabilis, another species of wood lizard. (W.E. Duellman, from Torres-Carvajal et al., 2009.)
View ArticleE. rubrigularis
Male E. rubrigularis, another species of wood lizard. (O. Torres-Carvajal, from Torres-Carvajal et al., 2009.)
View ArticleE. rubrigularis
Male E. rubrigularis, another species of wood lizard. (O. Torres-Carvajal, from Torres-Carvajal et al., 2009.)
View ArticlePeru
Habitat of Enyalioides azulae and Enyalioides binzayedi : The montane rainforest atop the mountain ridge that forms the boundary between Region de San Martin and Region de Loreto. (A. Del Campo).
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Distribution of Enyalioides azulae and Enyalioides binzayedi in Peru. The red circle indicates the type (and only currently known) locality of both species. (From Venegas, et al.)
View ArticleInside the Flipper
Inside the Flipper Just why are whales so appealing? Part of it is the sheer size of many species, of course, but they're not the only large aquatic animals. Whale sharks, the largest fish, can reach...
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