husky dog in parade Credit: Yiming Chen / Getty On This Page 3 Ways To Know if Your Dog Is Ready for a Parade Is a Parade Safe for Your Dog? 11 Tips For Bringing Your Dog to a Parade Oh, the excitement of a parade: Marching bands! Balloons! Floats! Entertainment! And without a doubt, dogs in parades and chillin' on the sidelines lookin' adorable always seem to add to the festive air of the occasion....
The most expansive landscape of New York City is the Adirondack Mountains.These mountain ranges are unique in their shape and size. Unlike the elongated Appalachian Mountains, the Adirondacks contain a circular dome with a height of about 1 mi (1.6 km) and a width of about 160 mi (257.4 km).The Adirondack Mountains are unique because of their diverse ecology, breathtaking beauty, and historical legacy. With their vast area, these mountains offer an exquisite view and provide the opportunity for engaging in a lot of exciting activities....
Normer with rescued cat Credit: Courtesy of Normer M. Adams Normer Adams was 100 feet up a tree, a height that would’ve scared the daylights out of him years ago. But he had a job to do rescuing Panda the cat, who’d spent the previous five days perched high within a tulip poplar tree. His former fear of heights would not deter him from completing his mission to get Panda safely back into the arms of his owner, who was patiently waiting on solid ground....
Among northern cardinal birds, both males and females have brilliant bright orange beaks, which make them popular feeder birds.These North American birds can be heard singing all year round. Adult male northern cardinals feature the distinctive plumage, orange beaks, and black masks and beards around the face that most people associate with the species.Much of the eastern, central, and north United States and Canada, as well as eastern Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala, are habitats to this species....
The Abert’s squirrel (Sciurus aberti) is also called the tassel-eared squirrel and is found in North American mountain regions lush with Ponderosa pine forests. This furry-haired animal was named after the American naturalist, John James Abert.An Abert’s squirrel is mostly gray-white in color, with a characteristic red streak along its back. These furry creatures are adaptable in nature and thrive on a diet filled with various parts of Ponderosa pine trees (like seeds, pine twigs, buds, etc....
The beaked sea snake, Enhydrina schistosa or Hydrophis schistosus, is a member of the Elapidae family and belongs to the genus Enhydrina. It can also be commonly referred to as the common snake, the Valakadyn sea snake, and the hook-nosed sea snake. One of the world’s most venomous marine snakes, its venom is incredibly toxic and can lead to the death of humans. This snake species can be found inhabiting shallow water with sandy or muddy bottoms of mudflats at river mouths and estuaries....
Are you interested in learning cool facts about a specific type of desert beetle? In this article, you will learn about the blue death feigning beetle.The scientific name for Blue death feigning beetle is Asbolus verrucosus. They are desert beetles of the darkling species. They are invertebrates of the family Tenebrionidae of the order Coleoptera. These desert-dwelling beetles are originally from the South-West United States, mainly the Sonoran desert. Gradually they have spread in surrounding countries like Mexico....
Common wombats (Vombatus ursinus), also known as the bare-nosed or coarse-haired wombat, is the only marsupial in the genus vombatus from the three extant species of wombats. Wombats are one of the largest known burrowing animals currently recorded in the world. They are gifted with short, broad feet, powerful limbs, and flattened claws that help them dig up the soil for their burrows. Wombats spend their entire lives living in the same burrows....
Splendid fairy-wrens (Malurus Splendens) are small but adorable birds commonly found in Australia. The breeding males have a majestic plumage with a bright blue forehead and rich blue-back wings. The males’ throats are violet-colored, and their bill is black. Their crown and cheek patches are paler blue, and they have brownish-gray legs and feet.Splendid wrens have black bands on their breast and at the base of their blue tail. The female is similar to non-breeding males and has brown and blue wings alongside a white belly....
Known for its aesthetic appearance, the Fat Sleeper (dormitator maculatus) is an extremely popular choice for home as well as commercial aquariums. Not much is known about this freshwater species of fish due to a lack of target research of the species except that this freshwater fish is essentially found in channels of fresh water and muddy water in the continents of South America and North America and that they usually only migrate to sea or ocean waters to reproduce or spawn....
The giant squid, Architeuthis dux, is the largest invertebrate known to man. These organisms are deep-sea dwellers, found at inhospitable depths in the world’s oceans. The availability of information was limited due to the difficulty of locating giant squids. However, in 2004, a group of scientists in Japan was able to capture live images of this elusive creature that was washed to the shore. Tsunemi Kubodera of the National Science Museum, Japan, documented a female live giant squid....
Osa Conservation’s rainforest cameras have bagged some exciting recordings lately! It is a rare population of species that are native to the Osa, known as grison, Galictis vittata andina. A Galictis vittata brasiliensis, also known as a South American wolverine that is native to Central and South America. These animals have two existing species: the greater grison, which is extensively found in South America, through Central America to southern Mexico and Guyana; and the lesser grison (Galictis cuja), which is constrained to the southern half of South America....
Lesser scaup (Aythya affinis), of order Anseriformes, family Anatidae, are found in lakes during the non-breeding season and usually live in estuaries and wetland habitats. There are two similar species of scaups, the greater scaups, and the lesser scaups, located in great lakes. The lesser scaups are non-diving ducks who have an overall dark brown to mottled brown plumage. They have a distinctive blue bill and are also named bluebills or broadbills....
The Linheraptor is a bird-like theropod flying dinosaur, a member of the family Theropoda, kingdom Animalia, class Reptilia, family Dromaeosaurid, genus Linheraptor and has the scientific name as Linheraptor exquisitus. It is estimated to have lived during the late Cretaceous period and is believed to have gone extinct at the end of this period, about 65 million years ago. The reason for its extinction is the natural disasters and structural changes on the earth’s surface....
The Pacific bonito (Sarda chiliensis lineoata), also known as skipjack tuna, is a medium-sized member of the Scombridae or Mackerel Family. Another form of identification of these fish is also the names the eastern Pacific bonito and the southern Pacific bonito.There are two subspecies of the Pacific bonito, the Sarda chiliensis lineolata from the northern populations which are found in southern Baja California in Mexico and southern California. Also, the Sarda chilensis chiliensis from the southern populations are found in the subtropical eastern Pacific, Peru to Talcahuano, Mancora, and Chile....
Pinacosaurus (Pinacosaurus grangeri), which means plank lizard, was one of the first genera of Ankylosaurid thyreophoran dinosaurs, and belonged to the order Ornithischia that lived during the Late Cretaceous period more than 75 million years ago. During the search for evidence of early man, the team sent from the American Museum of Natural History to expedite in Mongolia instead found dinosaur skeletons and eggs.Pinacosaurus grangeri was found in the year 1923 and was named in the year 1933, the fossils which were discovered were mostly from dry desert regions buried under sand dune deposits....
Do you have the Protoceratops in your dinosaur collection? Then this article is for you! It includes all kinds of Protoceratops dinosaur facts, from size to behavior. A member of the Ceratopsian (horned dinosaurs) family, the Protoceratops roamed arid parts of central Asia until the late Cretaceous period. This plant-eating dinosaur was about the size of a sheep and lived in herds to escape dangers like being predated by the Velociraptor....
Rocasaurus muniozi was a species of titanosaurian sauropod that belonged to the family of saltasaurid dinosaurs. Their fossils were found from the Allen Formation in Río Negro Province of northern Patagonia, Argentina. That evidence suggested that they lived from the middle Campanian age to the Maastrichtian age during the Late Cretaceous period. Fun Rocasaurus Facts For Kids What did they prey on? Plants What did they eat? Herbivore Average litter size?...
The striped cucumber beetle is an extreme agricultural pest of vegetation within the family Cucurbitaceae in North America. The striped cucumber beetle is a carrier of the plant disorder bacterial wilt. Though the striped cucumber beetle lives throughout Florida, it’s the least usually observed amongst the three chrysomelid species on cucurbit plants within the state.These beetles are yellow and have three stripes of black. They can damage fruit and foliage and cause bacterial wilt....
The tanuki is also known as the Japanese raccoon dog. This creature is native to Japan. In Japanese folklore, the tanuki raccoon is said to be a shape-shifting animal. These shape-shifting tanuki dogs can take any shape that they desire. This species looks exactly like a raccoon but is more like a dog than a raccoon. They are more closely related to foxes than dogs. In Japanese mythology, Nihon Shoki the raccoon dogs are depicted as bake-tanuki....
