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Ark: Survival Evolved (stylized as ARK) is a 2017 action-adventure survival video game developed by Studio Wildcard. In the game, players must survive being stranded on one of several maps filled with roaming dinosaurs , fictional fantasy monsters, and other prehistoric animals, natural hazards, and potentially hostile human players.
A temperature-controlled terrarium with plants inside. A terrarium (pl. terraria or terrariums) is a glass container containing soil and plants in an environment different from the surroundings. It is usually a sealable container that can be opened for maintenance or to access the plants inside; however, terraria can also be open to the atmosphere.
A miniature home terrarium. Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona. A vivarium (Latin for 'place of life'; pl. vivaria or vivariums) is an area, usually enclosed, for keeping and raising animals or plants for observation or research. Water-based vivaria may have open tops providing they are not connected to other water bodies.
The Cotton Plant Water Tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. In 1820, when settlers from neighboring states first came to the Cotton Plant area, it was covered in dense timber and cane. As a small town began to take shape at the site of present-day Cotton Plant, those settlers initially named their community ...
The Overloaded Ark, first published in 1953, is the debut book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell. It is the chronicle of a six-month collecting trip, from December 1947 to August 1948, to the West African colony of British Cameroon – now Cameroon and Nigeria – that Durrell made with aviculturist and ornithologist John Yealland .
Now the plant can absorb more light. When the sun dries the plants, they turn white. Thanks to this special survival trick, plants without roots can absorb fog droplets as well as rainwater and thus cover their water needs. [18] More than one-third of a tropical forest's vascular plants are epiphytes which species of Tillandsia are part of.
Most Thismia species are threatened with extinction [12] and many species are only known from very few collections. [13] For instance, the IUCN conservation status of Thismia melanomitra is Vulnerable (VU), [14] Thismia malayana is categorized as Vulnerable (VU), [11] Thismia kobensis, which was previously believed to be extinct, is now categorized as Critically Endangered (CR), [15] and ...
A paludarium for housing freshwater fish inside. A paludarium is a type of vivarium that incorporates both terrestrial and aquatic elements. Paludaria (or paludariums) usually consist of an enclosed container in which organisms specific to the biome being simulated are kept.