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Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), also called great sea otter, rare, completely marine otter of the northern Pacific, usually found in kelp beds. Floats on back. Looks like sea otter laughing. saltwater otters
Animal Group Names
Lion (panthera leo)
Deadliest Animals Quiz
Mute swan with cygnet. (birds)
Match the Baby Animal to Its Mama Quiz
Green tree python snake (Chondropython viridis) in a rainforest.
Creepy Crawlers Quiz
vulture. An adult bearded vulture at a raptor recovery center. The Gypaetus barbatus also known as the Lammergeier or Lammergeyer, is a bird of prey and considered an Old World vulture.
Animal Factoids
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Praying mantis (sphodromantis gastrica)
Why Do Some Animals Eat Their Mates After Sex?
Cook Strait giant weta (Deinacrida rugosa) found on Matiu/Somes Island in the harbour of Wellington, New Zealand. Dec. 17, 2009 insect
Big Bugs and Colossal Crabs: 7 Invertebrates of Unusual Size
Japanese spider crab
10 Animals With Evolutionary Traits Plucked Straight Out of a Nightmare
coconut octopus underwater, amphioctopus, cephalopod, indonesia
6 Reasons to Love Cephalopods
The fierce snake (also known as the inland taipan, western taipan and Oxyuranus microlepidotus) is the most venomous snake in the world.
How Deadly Are Australia’s Animals?
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Ice Sledge Hockey, Hockey Canada Cup, USA (left) vs Canada, 2009. UBC Thunderbird Arena, Vancouver, BC, competition site for Olympic ice hockey and Paralympic ice sledge hockey. Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Vancouver Olympics
10 Best Hockey Players of All Time
Horses. Equus caballus. Horse stable. A brown horse looks out from his stall through the window.
Horsing Around: 7 of the Weirdest Racehorse Names in History
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Attack on Pearl Harbor Timeline
Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company
Periods of American Literature
Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)
Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture
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Key People

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Philip Henry Gosse, portrait miniature by W. Gosse, 1839; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Philip Henry Gosse
British naturalist
Yves Delage
French zoologist
Charles William Peach
English naturalist and geologist
Hyatt, Alpheus
Alpheus Hyatt
American zoologist and paleontologist
C. Wyville Thomson, 1877.
Sir C. Wyville Thomson
Scottish naturalist
Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
German zoologist
Addison Emery Verrill
American zoologist
Félix Dujardin
French biologist
Maurice Caullery
Maurice Caullery
French biologist
Raymond Cecil Moore
American paleontologist

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vulture. An adult bearded vulture at a raptor recovery center. The Gypaetus barbatus also known as the Lammergeier or Lammergeyer, is a bird of prey and considered an Old World vulture.
Animal Factoids
Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), also called great sea otter, rare, completely marine otter of the northern Pacific, usually found in kelp beds. Floats on back. Looks like sea otter laughing. saltwater otters
Animal Group Names
Green tree python snake (Chondropython viridis) in a rainforest.
Creepy Crawlers Quiz
Lion (panthera leo)
Deadliest Animals Quiz
Mute swan with cygnet. (birds)
Match the Baby Animal to Its Mama Quiz
List
Cook Strait giant weta (Deinacrida rugosa) found on Matiu/Somes Island in the harbour of Wellington, New Zealand. Dec. 17, 2009 insect
Big Bugs and Colossal Crabs: 7 Invertebrates of Unusual Size
Demystified
Praying mantis (sphodromantis gastrica)
Why Do Some Animals Eat Their Mates After Sex?