Aepycamelus Extinct Animals Species Pictures

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Aepycamelus Extinct Animals Fossil

Aepycamelus Extinct Animals Images

Aepycamelus Extinct Animals Species

Aepycamelus Extinct Animals Pictures

Moa Extinct Animals Pictures

Moa Extinct Animals Images

Moa Extinct Animal Fossil Pictures

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Moa Extinct Giant Animals

Moa Extinct Animals Species

Mastodon Extinct Animals Species Pictures

Mastodon Extinct Animals Fossil Pictures

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Mastodon Extinct Animals Pictures

Mastodon Extinct Animals Images

Mastodon Extinct Animals Fossil Images

Woolly Mammoth Extinct Animals Pictures

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While barely visible to the naked eye, it has a dramatic A feature used to identify mammoth ivory is a brownish or blue-green colored 'blemish' called vivianite, an iron phosphate. Although there are many similarities between fossil mammoth ivory and elephant ivory, there are identification methods that can distinguish the two. Each tusk exhibits unique character and beauty that is never duplicated in another piece of fossil tusk ivory. The colors vary from tan to dark brown depending on the mineral deposits that were in the immediate soil surrounding the fallen mammoth.

Woolly Mammoth Extinct Animals Pictures

Woolly Mammoth Extinct Animals Images

The beautiful fossil ivory hues of tan, brown and blue are the result of thousands of years of mineralization. Regardless of the way they are discovered, fossil ivory is excavated in accord with applicable federal and state regulations. Other times the tusks are unearthed as a natural result of gold mining or road construction activities. Bush pilots sometimes spot the massive tusks jutting out from riverbanks in the Alaska tundra. The massive tusks, which have been hidden for thousands of years in the remote Arctic tundra of Alaska, Canada and Siberia, are unearthed many ways.

Woolly Mammoth Extinct Animals Fossil

Woolly Mammoth Extinct Animals Pictures

Their skeletons and tusks were then naturally buried for eons in the frozen earth. These great animals ultimately succumbed to the drastic climate changes accompanying great ice ages. These great creatures were larger than today's Indian elephants and their tusks could weigh up to 300 pounds each and measure over 16 feet in length. You may have seen drawings of the great Woolly Mammoths that wandered our earth freely over 10,000 years ago.

Amazon Rainforest Monkeys Species

Amazon Rainforest Monkeys Pictures

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Amazon Rainforest Monkeys Images

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Amazon Rainforest Frogs

Amazon Rainforest Frog Pictures

The trees will be up to 35 metres tall and form a canopy over The canopy, next layer up, is probably the best known of the rain forest layers. You will find birds, snakes, butterflies and frogs here and the whole area will be filled with activity and colour. These will grow until they are just under the canopy of the forest and will wait there until they find a space to grow into.

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Although these are small in comparison to the taller trees of the forest, they can still reach up to around 20 metres in height. The rain forest layers then continue with a layer of small trees called the understory. Next will be a shrub layer which is home to many varieties of shrubs and ferns. Many larger animals will be found here including big cats, elephants and gorillas.

Amazon Rainforest Frog Images

Amazon Rainforest Frog Species

There will be some mosses and ferns growing in the warm and damp. This layer will be home to millions of micro organisms and invertebrates which live amongst the fallen leaves. Much of the sunlight does not penetrate here and in fact only around 2% of the sunlight reaches the floor. The lowest is the forest floor.

Beautiful Amazon Rainforest Frog

There are five rain forest layers which are clearly definable. They will also support a huge variety of plant life which will vary according to the rain forest layers in which they exist. The rain forest is made up of layers which will all have a different characteristic and be the home for a range of different birds, animals and insects.

Okapi Endangered Animal Pictures

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Gestation When okapis are pregnant, they retreat into dense forest to give birth. The last official sighting there dates to 1959, almost five decades ago. Recently, scientists have uncovered evidence that okapis may also be surviving in the Congo's Virunga National Park.

Young Okapi Endangered Animal Pictures

Okapi Endangered Animal Photos

The okapi currently inhabits the dense, moist rainforests of the Ituri Forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A number of the plants eaten by the okapi are known to be poisonous to humans. Okapis feed on grass, fruit, fungi, and leaves. Its face is also hued in white on the side, fading into the richer reddish-brown toward the neck and forehead and its black muzzle. Their coats are mostly reddish-brown/chestnut in color, with dark zebra-like stripes canvased against its white hind quarters and all four legs.

Okapi Endangered Animal Images

In body structure, they are similar to giraffes, except with much shorter necks. Okapis usually weigh 465 - 550 lbs. Its tail is about 12 - 17 in in length. The okapi is generally 6 - 8 ft long and stands close to 5 - 6.5 ft in height.

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Poaching and habitat destruction, coupled with continued military strife and social unrest, may put the future of this species at risk. It is currently a "Near Threatened" species residing in stretches of rainforest in central Africa. It had been known to the peoples of Africa since at least the Egyptian times, but was only brought to prominence in Western perception in the early 1900s. The okapi is an unique mammal of Africa, bearing the appearance of both a zebra and a giraffe.