Lamiaceae Satureja darwinii
Lamiaceae Satureja darwinii
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• Beunos Aires to Port Famine
Cool, Warm
Graphic by Admiral Ackbar
Satureja is a genus of aromatic plants of the family Lamiaceae, related to rosemary and thyme. There are about 30species called savories, of which summer savory and winter savory are the most important in cultivation.[citation needed] Satureja species are native to warm temperate regions and may be annual or perennial. They are low-growing herbsand subshrubs, reaching heights of 15–50 cm. The leaves are 1 to 3 cm long, with flowers forming in whorls on the stem, white to pale pink-violet. Satureja species are food […] read more
Megatherium
Megatherium americanum
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• Megatherium americanum is EXTINCT and has a MOVE of 1
• Beunos Aires to Port Famine
Cool, Warm
Graphic by Admiral Ackbar
Megatherium (from the Greek mega [μέγας], meaning “great”, and therion [θηρίον], “beast”) was a genus of elephant-sized ground sloths endemic to Central and South America that lived from the late Pliocene through the end of thePleistocene.[1] Its size was exceeded by only a few other land mammals, including mammoths and Paraceratherium. Megatherium was one of the largest land mammals known, weighing up to 4 tonnes [2]and up to 6 m (20 ft) in length from head to tail.[3] It is the largest known ground sloth, […] read more
Galapagos Hawk
Buteo galapagoensis
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• Buteo galapagoensis has a FLIGHT of 2
• Galapagos to Auckland
Cool, Warm
Graphic by Admiral Ackbar
The Galapagos Hawk (Buteo galapagoensis) is a large hawk endemic to the Galapagos Islands. Similar in size to the Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) and the Swainson’s Hawk(Buteo swainsoni) of North America, the Galapagos Hawk is about 55 cm from beak to tail with a wingspan of 120 cm. The adult Hawk has various colouring within the species. The adult Galapagos Hawk is generally a sooty brownish […] read more
Marine iguana
Amblyrhynchus cristatus
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• Amblyrhynchus cristatus has a MOVE of 2
• Galapagos to Auckland
Cool, Warm
Graphic by David Ng
The marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) is an iguana found only on the Galápagos Islands that has the ability, unique among modern lizards, to live and forage in the sea, making it a marine reptile. The iguana can dive over 9 m (30 ft) into the water. It has spread to all the islands in the archipelago, and is sometimes called the Galápagos marine iguana. It mainly lives on […] read more
Darwin’s fox
Lycalopex fulvipes 
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• Lycalopex fulvipes has a MOVE of 2
• Chiloe to Callao
Cool, Warm
Graphic by Admiral Ackbar
Darwin’s fox or Darwin’s Zorro (Lycalopex fulvipes) is a small critically endangered canine from the genus Lycalopex. It is also known as the Zorro Chilote or Zorro de Darwin[2] in Spanish and lives on Chiloé Island and Nahuelbuta National Park in mainland Chile (Araucanía Region). Darwin’s fox was first collected from San Pedro Island off the coast of Chile by the naturalist Charles Darwin in 1834. It was long held that Darwin’s fox was a subspecies […] read more
Galapagos Prickly Pear
Opuntia echios 
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• Galapagos to Auckland
Warm, Hot
Graphic by Admiral Ackbar
Opuntia echios is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is endemic to the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador) and is commonly known as the Galápagos prickly pear, but there are five other species of prickly pears that also are endemic to the archipelago (O. galapageia, O. helleri, O. insularis, O. megasperma and O. saxicola). There are five varieties of Opuntia echios, each with a different appearance and distribution: Opuntia echios var. echios on the islands of Santa Cruz,Baltra, Daphne […] read more
Darwin’s Tanager
Pipraeidea darwinii
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• Pipraeidea darwinii has a FLIGHT of 2
• Beunos Aires to Port Famine
Cool, Warm
Graphic by Admiral Ackbar
The Blue-and-yellow Tanager (Pipraeidea bonariensis) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family, the tanagers. It is found in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, extreme northern border Chile, and Andean Peru and Ecuador. Some southern region birds migrate northeastwards in the austral winter into eastern Bolivia and northeastern Argentina; also Paraguay where the birds are only migratory non-breeding residents. Males of the eastern nominate group have a black back, while the members of the western darwinii group have a green […] read more
Zooplankton
Marine zooplankton
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• Zooplankton have a MOVE of 1
• Portsmouth to Montevideo
Cold, Cool, Warm
Graphic by Admiral Ackbar
Zooplankton /ˌzoʊ.əˈplæŋktən/ are heterotrophic (sometimes detritivorous) plankton. Plankton are organisms drifting in oceans, seas, and bodies of fresh water. The word “zooplankton” is derived from the Greek zoon (ζῴον), meaning “animal”, and planktos(πλαγκτός), meaning “wanderer” or “drifter”.[1] Individual zooplankton are usually too small to be seen with the naked eye, but some, such as jellyfish, are large. Zooplankton is a categorisation spanning a range of organism sizes including small protozoans and […] read more
Octopus
Genus Octopus 
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• This card has a MOVE of 2.
• Portsmouth to Montevideo
Warm
Graphic by Admiral Ackbar
The octopus (/ˈɒktəpʊs/ or /ˈɒktəpəs/; plural: octopuses, octopi, or octopodes; see below) is a cephalopod mollusc of the order Octopoda. Octopuses have two eyes and four pairs of arms and, like other cephalopods, they are bilaterally symmetric. An octopus has a hard beak, with its mouth at the center point of the arms. Octopuses have no internal or external skeleton (although some species have a vestigial remnant of a shell […] read more