10 Facts About Megalodon

Not only was Megalodon the biggest prehistoric shark that ever lived; it was the largest predatory marine creature in the history of the planet, outweighing both modern Great White Sharks and ancient reptiles like Liopleurodon and Kronosaurus. Here are 10 facts you may or may not have known about this lethal predator.

 














1. Megalodon's teeth were about 7 inches long...
Megalodon didn't earn its name ("giant tooth") for nothing. The teeth of this prehistoric shark were over half a foot long, serrated, and heart-shaped (by comparison, the biggest teeth of a Great White Shark are only about three inches long). You have to go back 65 million years--to none other than Tyrannosaurus Rex--to find a creature with consistently bigger choppers, though the canines of some saber-toothed cats also measured up.

Chinstrap Penguin

 

Chinstrap Penguin | The Chinstrap penguin is a kind of penguin which is found in the South Sandwich Islands, Antarctica, the South Orkneys, South Shetland, South Georgia, Bouvet Island and Balleny. Chinstrap penguin usually breeds on hill slopes and rocky areas in colonies, sometimes huge. Their name is derived from the narrow black band under their heads, making it seem like they are wearing black helmets, making them one of the most easily recognized species of penguins. Other names for them are "Ringed penguins," "Bearded penguins", and "Stone cracker penguins" because of their hard call.

Humboldt Penguin

 

Humboldt Penguin | The Humboldt penguin, also called Peruvian Penguin, or Patranca is a South American penguin, which breeds in coastal Peru and Chile. The closest relatives are the African Penguin, the Magellanic Penguin and the Galápagos Penguin. Humboldt penguin is named after the cold water swims in the current, which in turn is named after Alexander von Humboldt, an explorer. They enjoy the warmer climate compared with many other species of penguins out there. They live on the rocky areas around the banks.

Green Iguana

 

Green Iguana | The Green iguana is undoubtedly one of the most popular pet reptile world. Green iguana or Common iguana is a large tree herbivorous lizards of the genus Iguana. Green iguanas come from the rainforests of northern Mexico to southeastern Brazil, where temperatures and humidity are high. Green iguanas inhabit most tropical forests near water, although they avoid areas of the deep woods where the sun can not reach the ground to the nest to breed. Often found in captivity as pets because of his quiet nature and the bright colors, the demanding to ensure well. Space requirements and the need for special lighting and heat can prove challenging to an amateur hobbyist.

Blue Iguana

 

Blue Iguana | The Blue Iguana or Grand Cayman Iguana is a critically endangered species of lizard of the genus Cyclura endemic to the island of Grand Cayman. The Blue Iguana prefers to live in rocky, sunny, open areas in dry forests or near the coast, as the females must dig holes in the sand to lay eggs in June and July. Their species name, lewisi, comes from the naturalist who first wrote about them, Bernard C. Lewis. Even back in 1938, Lewis understood their rarity, saying that he doubted more than a dozen, also lived on the island. Blue Iguanas live naturally in only one location, Grand Cayman, a 76 square mile island in the Caribbean Sea. These iguanas are also one of the longest living species of lizard, with the oldest on record to die at age 69.

Spider

 

Spider | Spiders are famous of fears, stories and mythologies of various cultures for centuries. They have symbolized patience due to their hunting technique of setting webs and waiting for a prey, but also evil and malice for the painful death of their poison causes. Web-spinning also caused the association of the spider with creation myths as they appear on the ability to produce their own worlds. In science, spiders have breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject poison. Spiders are found worldwide in all continents except Antarctica, and have settled in nearly every habitat except the air and sea colonization.

Corn Snake

 

Corn Snake | Corn snakes, also known as Red Rat snakes are large, powerful, and non-venomous constrictor in the genus Elaphe. The name "corn snake" is a relic from the days when southern farmers stored harvested ears in a wooden frame or log building called a cradle. Rats and mice came the corn crib to feed on the corn, and corn snakes came to feed on the rodents. Corn snakes are found in wooded groves, rocky slopes, meadows, woodlots, barns and abandoned buildings. Corn snakes are found throughout the southeastern and central United States. However, Corn snakes are most abundant in Florida and the southeastern U.S.

Leopard Gecko

 

Leopard Gecko | Leopard gecko is a nocturnal ground-dwelling lizard that occurs naturally in the deserts of South-Central Asia, and the rest of Pakistan, on the northwestern parts of India. It is located where the terrain is dry and rocky. Leopard geckos live on and under the ground and are nocturnal. As nocturnal animals, they spend all day hidden under rocks or in burrows to escape the heat by day and emerge at dusk to feed themselves by hunting insects. Unlike most geckos, Leopard geckos have movable eyelids. It has become an established and popular pet in captivity. These Geckos are solitary, and usually do not live with other animals. 

 

Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Chordata
Class:     Reptilia
Order:     Squamata
Suborder:     Lacertilia
Family:     Gekkonidae
Subfamily:     Eublepharinae
Genus:     Eublepharis
Species:     E. macularius

Leopard geckos are usually large for a gecko. Found in the wild usually have a dark, dull and gray color than those kept in captivity as pets. Those in captivity generally have a range of skin colors and patterns. The skin of a leopard gecko is very durable, which protects against the rough sand and rocky terrain of their dry environment. Their dorsal side is covered with small bumps, which has a rough texture and appearance, while their belly is thin, transparent, and smooth. Like all reptiles, Leopard geckos shed their skin. In the few days before shedding, the skin will change color to a translucent whitish gray. Adults shed an average of once a month, while the young will sometimes throw twice. The gecko eats after shedding its old skin, revealing a lighter color. 

 

A Leopard gecko has a triangular head and a large tail, which stores the fat. His skin is bumpy and heavy pattern. The cartridges are designed for the gecko to camouflage from predators. Moreover, Leopard geckos are ectothermic. They absorb heat and energy during the day when they sleep so they can hunt and digest food at night. They also have short legs, allowing them to be quick and agile, while their small nails enable them to branches and rocks to climb. Leopard geckos have openings on both sides of their head as ears. A covers and protects the eardrum. They use their ears to locate their prey. HealthyLeopard geckos  have a thick, fleshy tail, while a thin tail is an indication that the gecko is not healthy and may be lacking power. 

 

Leopard geckos have predators such as snakes, frogs, and foxes and other large reptiles. Their acute hearing and sight helping them to escape during the night. Along with their exceptional vision and hearing skills, their skin helps to camouflage themselves from their predators. Their sense of taste and smell also helps them to survive. The shedding of their skin also removes any odor markers left for potential predators to detect. If they are threatened, frightened, or scared, Leopard geckos noise to ward off predators feel. Also, they remain in underground burrows and caves during the day, not only avoid the heat, but also prevent the risk of getting eaten. 

 

Leopard gecko is an excellent pet. They are small, have minimal care needs, and can be left alone for severals days. They are quiet, no smell, and do not need attention. Leopard geckos are cheap and readily available at pet stores and breeders. They do not have much space. They have a large number of colors and pattern variations. Leopard geckos are the perfect pet lizard.

Savannah Monitor

 

Savannah Monitor | Savannah monitor is a monitor lizard species from Africa. The species is known as the Bosc's Monitor in Europe since the French scientist Louis Bosc first described the species. Comes from Africa, Savannah monitors have a dry, warm environment for them to thrive in. They spend most of their time in the wild basking in the sun. The range stretches across sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal to Eritrea and northern Zaire. Savannah monitor is primarily a ground dwelling species that shelters in burrows, although sometimes in bushes or low trees. In the coastal plain of Ghana, Savannah monitor youth often associated with the burrows of the great cricket Brachytrupes.

Orchid Mantis

 

Orchid Mantis | Orchid Mantis is a wonderful mantis with lobes on his legs that look like flower pentals. Although this species does not live on orchids, it looks particularly good as a flower or orchid. This variety is very popular and loved for its beautiful bright colors and beautiful camouflage. Orchid Mantis is a mantis from Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Sumatran rainforests. These mantises thrive in moist, warm areas of South East Asian rainforests. These mantis can be found on papaya trees, orchids, or frangipani trees with flowers.

Brown Recluse Spider

 

Brown Recluse Spider | Brown recluse spider or violin spider is a spider with a venomous bite. Brown recluse spiders build irregular webs that often shelter consists of disordered wires. The wild species lives in the southern states, ranging from central Texas to western Georgia and the internal variation resides in the lower reaches of the Midwest. They frequently build their webs in woodpiles and sheds, closets, garages, plenum, cellars and other places that are dry and generally undisturbed. If residence in human dwellings, they seem cardboard preferred, possibly because it mimics the rotting tree bark which they naturally inhabit. They are also found in shoes, in cupboards, bed sheets of underutilized beds, clothes piled or stacked or left lying on the floor, inside work gloves, behind baseboards and pictures, in toilets and near sources of heat when ambient temperatures are lower than usual.

Silvery Blue Butterfly

 

Silvery Blue Butterfly | Silvery Blue Butterfly are small, iridescent blue butterflies found in North America and Canada. Their wingspan is only 7 - 8 inch to 1 - 1/4 inch wide and they are found in a wide range of habitats, from coastal dunes and prairies. Although the species as a whole is abundant, is a subspecies (palosverdesensis) with extinction, with a rank of T1 by the Nature Conservancy (worldwide critically endangered by the extreme rarity), and another (xerces) is considered extinct.

Spicebush Swallowtail

 

Spicebush Swallowtail | Spicebush Swallowtail is a common black swallowtail butterfly found in North America, also known as the Green-Clouded butterfly. It has two subspecies, Papilio troilus troilus and Papilio troilus ilioneus, mainly found in the Florida peninsula. Spicebush Swallowtail derives its name from its most common host plant, the spicebush, members of the genus Lindera. This predominantly Spicebush Swallowtail is normal in deciduous woods or woody swamps, where they can be found flying low and fast through shaded areas. Women tend to stay in open plains, while males are usually found in wetlands.

Question Mark Butterfly

 

Question Mark Butterfly | Question Mark Butterfly is a North American butterfly. It is their name from their wings. The wings of butterflies question mark attached. They live in wooded areas and city parks, or in general in areas where trees and open spaces are provided. His flight from May to September. Their sources of food rotting fruit, tree sap, dung or carrion, but if nothing is available that they visit flowers for nectar. Like other species in the order of Lepidoptera, the Question Mark Butterfly is an insect that four stages of life, also known as holometabolis or complete metamorphosis. These four stages of life are embyro (ova or egg), larva (in this case, caterpillar), pop (pop), and image (or adult / butterfly).

Common Buckeye Butterfly

 

Common Buckeye Butterfly | Common Buckeye Butterfly or simply Buckeye is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in southern Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia and all parts of the United States except the northwest, and is especially common in the south, the California coast, and throughout Central America and Colombia. The sub-species of Junonia coenia bergi is endemic on the island of Bermuda. Its habitat is open areas with low vegetation and some bare ground. This species and its relatives were formerly placed in the genus Precis.

Snow Leopard

 

Snow Leopard | Snow leopard is one of the beautiful big cat found on Earth. They are distributed in the following countries: Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. They live between 3,000 and 5,500 meters above sea level in the rocky mountains of these countries. The montain range includes Hindukush, Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kashmir and the Himalayas. It is also found in the Siberian region couthern. The total population of Snow leopard is not exactly known. It is believed that around 3000-5000 snow leopards live in the wild.

Golden Eagle

 

Golden Eagle | Golden eagle is one of the best known birds of prey in the northern hemisphere. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. Golden eagles more widely distributed than any other eagle. Unlike North America, Golden eagles can be found in Europe, North Africa and Asia. The highest density of nesting Golden Eagles in the world located in southern Alameda County, California. These birds are dark brown, with lighter golden-brown feathers on their head and neck. Golden eagle is a solitary bird, which can be found in remote areas. They do not congregate in large numbers in winter.

Red Squirrel

 

Red Squirrel | Red squirrel or Eurasian red squirrel is a species of tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus, it is common throughout Eurasia. Red squirrel is a tree, omnivorous rodent. The red squirrel is found in both coniferous forest and temperate broadleaf forests. In America Red squirrel can be found in most parts of Alaska and Canada. It is also found in the Rocky Mountain states and in the eastern United States south to northern Virginia and west to Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. In Britain and Ireland, the number of Red squirrel have dropped dramatically in recent years, partly due to the introduction of the eastern gray squirrel from North America.

Thistle Mantis

 

Thistle Mantis | Thistle mantis is also known as Devil's Flower Mantis, Egyptian Flower Mantis, and Arab Mantis. It is a kind of praying mantis in Asia and Africa, in countries like Egypt, Algeria, Ethiopia, India, Israel, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, Turkey and Cyprus. Thistle mantis is becoming increasingly popular is in captivity, and with its stunning looks and wild nature, it is understandable. 
Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Arthropoda
Class:     Insecta
Order:     Mantodea
Family:     Empusidae
Genus:     Blepharopsis
Species:     B. mendica

Pelican Spiders ( Assassin Spider)

 

Pelican Spiders ( Assassin Spider) | Pelican spiders are small (but not tiny) in size (less than 5 mm in body length), and usually brown or red-brown in colour. They are instantly recognisable by the remarkable shape of the cephalothorax and pars cephalica (head-region), the latter of which is elevated on top of a long 'neck'. The chelicerae are concomitantly elongate and spear-like, armed with a distal row of peg teeth which are used to impale their spider prey. The combination of a long neck and long chelicerae makes these spiders distinctly 'pelican-like' in appearance, hence the common name.