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Around 16 million years ago, a dolphin giant cruised the depths of its watery domain. But unlike most modern dolphins, its home wasn’t an ocean; it lived in a freshwater lake in the Peruvian Amazon.
The Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), also known as the boto, bufeo or pink river dolphin, is a species of toothed whale endemic to South America and is classified in the family Iniidae. Three subspecies are currently recognized: I. g. geoffrensis (Amazon river dolphin), I. g. boliviensis ( Bolivian river dolphin ) and I. g. humboldtiana ...
Appendage of the Cambrian radiodont Lenisicaris. † L. pennsylvanica – type locality for species. Lingula. † Lingulella. † Llanoaspidella – type locality for genus. † Llanoaspis – tentative report. † Lonchocephalus. Life restoration of the Permian snake-like amphibian Lysorophus showing speculative egg-coiling behavior ...
The Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium is a zoo and aquarium in the United States, one of only six major zoo and aquarium hybrids in the United States.Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Highland Park, the zoo sits on 77 acres (31 ha) of park land where it exhibits more than 4,000 animals representing 475 species, including 20 threatened or endangered species.
Researchers at the University of Zurich estimated that the 16-million-year-old fossil was more than 11 feet long and is said to be the longest freshwater dolphin ever found.
Some of Pennsylvania's most important fossil finds were made in the state's Devonian rocks. [2] Carboniferous Pennsylvania was a swampy environment covered by a wide variety of plants. The latter half of the period was called the Pennsylvanian in honor of the state's rich contemporary rock record. By the end of the Paleozoic the state was no ...
Longwood Gardens is a public garden that consists of more than 1,100 acres (445 hectares; 4.45 km 2) of gardens, woodlands, and meadows in the Brandywine Creek Valley in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, United States. [ 2 ] It is one of the premier horticultural display gardens in the United States and is open to visitors year-round to enjoy ...
Native to Japan and other parts of Asia, the Joro spider, or Trichonephila clavata, is a black and yellow giant, venomous, flying spider that can grow up to four inches. They were first discovered ...