Animalia

Fruit Fly

Drosophila melanogaster
Scale 5 Diat: herbivore , Hierachy 2
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Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta

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This tiny fly has been a favourite model organism among geneticists for over 100 years, due to it’s short life cycle, prolific reproduction, the ease of mutation, and the ease of identifying inherited traits.

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Graphic by Amy Dalealsdale.deviantart.com
Drosophila melanogaster is a species of fly (the taxonomic order Diptera) in the familyDrosophilidae. The species is known generally as the common fruit fly or vinegar fly. Starting with Charles W. Woodworth‘s proposal of the use of this species as a model organism, D. melanogaster continues to be widely used for biological research in studies […] read more

Anhanguera blittersdorffi

Anhanguera blittersdorffi
Scale 9 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 3
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Animalia, Chordata, Pterosauria

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Anhanguera means “Old Devil.” The bumps on the tip of its bill may have helped stabilize its head when snatching fish as they leapt out of the water!

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Graphic by Raúl Martinwww.amnh.org/
Anhanguera (meaning “old devil”) is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur known from the Lower-Cretaceous (Aptianage, 112Ma) Santana Formation of Brazil, with referred specimens found in the Upper Chalk Formation andCambridge Greensand of the UK (up to the late Cenomanian age, 94Ma). This pterosaur is closely related toOrnithocheirus, and belongs in the family Ornithocheiridae within its […] read more

Scaphognathus

Scaphognathus
Scale 7 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 3
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Animalia, Chordata, Pterosauria

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Scaphognathus means “fat snout” in Latin. It has been found in Germany and may have had a good sense of sight.

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Graphic by Raúl Martinwww.amnh.org/
Scaphognathus was a pterosaur that lived around Germany during the Late Jurassic. It had a wingspan of 0.9 m (3 ft). (From Wikipedia, February 2015) read more

Dsungaripterus weii

Dsungaripterus weii
Scale 8 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 3
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Animalia, Chordata, Pterosauria

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Dsungaripterus was first found in China in the Junggar Basin. Its jaw was designed to catch and eat fish, but rather to dig up clams along the beach and crush them with its large flat teeth.

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Graphic by Raúl Martinwww.amnh.org/
Dsungaripterus was a genus of pterosaur, with an average wingspan of 3 metres (9.8 ft).[1] It lived during the Early Cretaceous, in China, where the first fossil was found in the Junggar Basin. Dsungaripterus weii had a wing span of 3 to 3.5 metres (9.8-11.5 ft). Its skull, forty to fifty centimetres long, bore a low bone […] read more

Ammonite

Ammonoidea subclass
Scale 7 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 2
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Animalia, Mollusca, Cephalopoda

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Despite their large shells that could grow up to 7 feet across, these predatory, squid-like shellfish were capable of swimming.

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Graphic by M.Shanley/AMNHwww.amnh.org/
Ammonites /ˈæmənaɪts/ are an extinct group of marine invertebrate animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the classCephalopoda. These molluscs are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e. octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish) than they are to shelled nautiloids such as the living Nautilus species. The earliest ammonites appear during the Devonian, and the last species died […] read more

Paleomattea

Paleomattea deliciosa
Scale 5 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 1
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Animalia, Anthropoda, Malacostraca

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The name of this shellfish means “ancient delicacy” and is derived from the Latin word deliciosa which means delicious.

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Graphic by AMNHwww.amnh.org/
Paleomattea is an extinct genus of prawn, containing the single species Paleomattea deliciosa.[1] The species is only known from the stomach contents of the fish Rhacolepis, which is referred to by the specific epithet deliciosa (“delicious”), and in the generic name, where mattea means “delicacy“.[2] (From Wikipedia, February 2015) read more