Tuesday, April 29, 2014






What odd creature is this?  It looks like a sea monster in the desert!  That it is sadly not a sea monster it is the horned desert viper.  The average length of these beasts are 30-60 cm including tail.  The maximum is 85 cm.  Usually the girls are bigger than the boys.  The color patterns usually consist of of reddish, pinkish, yellowish, pale gray, or light brown ground color.  Almost always the same color as found in its surroundings.  The viper is easily recognized by its horns but hornless individuals do occur.  Its native lands are north Africa and parts of the middle east.  This animal has a broad triangular shape.  Its eyes have very thin pupils that are very intimidating and a obvious sign that it is venomous.  Horns consist of a single scale behind the eye.  This creature is very durable in many extreme conditions and is a remarkable creature.  It is very interesting and amazing.


Is that a rat? Is that the devil?  Well yes it is a devil.  It is the tasmanian devil.  The cutest devil in the world.  The tasmanian devil is a carnivores marsupial.  They are part of the dasyuridae family.  Now they are found only in Australian island state of Tasmania.  The size of a small dog it became the largest carnivores marsupial in the world.  Words used to describe it are stocky, muscular, black fur, pungent odor, extremely loud disterbing screech, keen sense of smell, and ferocity when feeding.  The tasmanian devil has a large neck and head which allow it to have a pretty powerful bite for this guys size. It hunts prey and scavenges carrion as well as house hold objects so don't keep one as a pet unless you like every thing you have to have bite marks in it.







Manta rays are belong to the genus Manta. The larger species, M .birostris, can go up as long as 7 m (23 ft) in width while the smaller, M. alfredi, is 5.5 m (18 ft). Both of these species of manta have triangular pectoral fins, horn-shaped cephalic fins and large, forward-facing mouths. They are classified among the Elasmobrachii (Sharks and rays) and are a part of the eagle ray family Myliobatidae.


Mantas can be found in temperature, subtropical as eel as tropical waters. Both species are pelagic; M. birostris migrates across open oceans, singly or in groups, while M. alfredi tends to be resident and coastal (does not migrate). They are Filter feeders and eat large quantities of zooplancton, which they swallow with their open mouths as they swim. Gestation lasts over a year, producing live pups. Mantas visit cleaning stations for the removal of parasite. Like whales, they breach (or call), for reasons we do not know.

Friday, January 31, 2014

Whoa cool what is that? This is the whale shark.  Well which one is it you might ask.  The whale shark is indeed a shark not a whale.  Though they may look like a whale it is a massive shark.  It is not a whale is because it is a fish not a mammal.  The whale shark is a slow moving and filter feeding shark.  The whale shark is the largest extant fish.  The whale shark holds many records for sheer size. The species originated 60 million years ago.  The whale shark lives in tropical and warm oceans with a life spanned about 70 years.  Although the whale shark has a gigantic mouth it feeds mostly, not exclusively on plankton.  Plankton are microscopic plants and animals.  However Planet Earth has filmed a whale shark with a school of small fish eating them.  They have also filmed a whale shark coinciding with the mass of the spawning of fish and fed on all the eggs and sperm of the fish too.

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Yuck you may say.  What is that.  Well folks let me tell you.  This ugly creature is the blobfish.  He was declared world ugliest animal as you might have heard on CNN.  Now some facts about the blobfish.  The blobfish is a deep see fish of the family Psychrolutidae. It lives in the deep waters off the cost of mainland Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania.  The average Blobfish are often shorter then 30cm.  They live between 2,000 to 3,900ft below sea level.  The pressure here is multiple dozens higher than at sea level.  The blobfish's flesh is slightly less dense than water so it can float without using energy to swim.  The blobfish has a big lack of muscle but that is not a disadvantage for the blobfish eats any edible matter.  The blobfish looks very different  out of the water than it does in it because of its low density flesh.