Animalia

Longhorn Beetle

Monochamus scutellatus
Scale 4 Diat: herbivore , Hierachy 2
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Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta

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Fact: This beetle is found in postfire areas because its larvae eat dead wood, which in turn helps return nutrients to the soil.

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Monochamus scutellatus, commonly known as the white-spotted sawyer, spruce sawyer, or spruce beetle in Alberta[1] is a common wood-boring beetle found throughout North America.[2] Adults are large-bodied and black, with very long antennae; in males, they can be up to twice the body length, but in females they are only slightly longer than body length. […] read more

Canadian Swallowtail

Papilio canadensis
Scale 4 Diat: herbivore , Hierachy 2
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Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta

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Fact: Swallowtails are often seen in groups at mud puddles-these are males “puddling” to collect salts necessary for reproduction.

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Graphic by Jonathan DeMoorwww.borealisimages.ca/
Papilio canadensis, the Canadian tiger swallowtail, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It was once classified as a subspecies of Papilio glaucus. (From: Wikipedia, April 2017) read more

Allosaurus

Allosaurus
Scale 9 Diat: carnivore , Hierachy 3
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Animalia, Chordata, Reptilia

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Play: Allosaurus had a MOVE of 2.
Fact: With powerful arms with large hands and claws to attack prey, it could strip flesh from the bone with a tugging motion that is similar to modern falcons.

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Allosaurus (/ˌæləˈsɔːrəs/[1][2]) is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 150 million years ago during the late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to early Tithonian[3]). The name “Allosaurus” means “different lizard”. It is derived from the Greek ἄλλος/allos (“different, other”) and σαῦρος/sauros (“lizard / generic reptile”). The first fossil remains that can definitely be ascribed […] read more

Apatosaurus

Apatosaurus
Scale 9 Diat: herbivore , Hierachy 2
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Animalia, Chordata, Reptilia

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Play: Apatosaurus had a MOVE of 2.
Fact: This dinosaur couldn’t chew, and had to swallow all of its plant food whole, feeding on ferns and conifer branches. It is/was also one of the largest animals ever to walk the Earth.

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Apatosaurus (/əˌpætəˈsɔːrəs/;[1][2] meaning “deceptive lizard”) is a genus of extinct sauropod dinosaurs that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period. Othniel Charles Marsh described and named the first-known species, A. ajax in 1877, and a second species, A. louisae, was discovered and named by William H. Holland in 1916. They lived about 152 […] read more

Angustinaripterus

Angustinaripterus
Scale 9 Diat: carnivore , Hierachy 3
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Animalia, Chordata, Pterosauria

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Play: Angustinaripterus had a FLIGHT of 2.
Fact: This pterosaur had an unusual long snout studded with about two dozen forward-curving teeth. It may have fed on fish.

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Angustinaripterus was a basal pterosaur, belonging to the Breviquartossa, and discovered at Dashanpu near Zigong in the Szechuan province of China. Angustinaripterus was named in 1983 by He Xinlu. The type species is Angustinaripterus longicephalus. The genus name is derived from Latin angustus, “narrow” and naris, “nostril”, combined with Latinized Greek pteron, “wing”. The specific […] read more

Stegosaurus

Stegosaurus
Scale 9 Diat: herbivore , Hierachy 2
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Animalia, Chordata, Reptilia

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Play: Stegosaurus had a MOVE of 2.

Fact: When threatened, Stegosaurus would turn its head back to look over its shoulder: this way to better aim the swing of its dangerous tail.

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Stegosaurus (/ˌstɛɡəˈsɔːrəs/[1]) is a genus of armored dinosaur. Their fossil bones have been found in rocks dated to the Late Jurassicperiod (Kimmeridgian to early Tithonian ages), between 155 and 150 million years ago, in the western United States and Portugal. Several species have been classified in the upper Morrison Formation of the western U.S, though only […] read more