The order carnivore is a very interesting order that takes in different forms. It contains five families all of which are uniquely different. Members of Carnivora have diverse food habits, although many are primarily carnivorous, and carnivory is widely distributed in mammals, being found in many other orders including bats, marsupial mammals, primates, and dolphins … Read more
Chelydra serpentine belongs to the kingdom Animalia because they are multicellular and eukaryotic heterotrophs. They also belong to the phylum Chordata because they had the following features at some point in their lives: pharyngeal slits, dorsal nerve cord, notochord, post-anal tail. Chelydra serpentine have waterproof skin covered in scales, are ectothermic and have hard shelled … Read more
There is nothing quite like spending an afternoon lost in a world of imagination that can only be found inside of a fort. That fort serves as a top-secret hideout, a treehouse deep in the jungle or anything else that one child can imagine. Forts are where stories are told, dreams are made and the … Read more
The Gulf of Mexico along the Louisiana coast has experienced countless oil spills but unlike those BP’s oil spewed directly from the bottom of the ocean. It is difficult to accurately determine the complete extent of the damage caused by the oil spill because data on the condition of the environment in that area before … Read more
Invasive species are a major threat to the United States; mostly Florida. These species are the worst ones we have in Florida. ‘We are ground zero for the impacts of invasive species,” says Doria Gordon, the director of conservation science for the Florida chapter of the Nature Conservancy (TNC). “And our invaders are very good … Read more
1.Overfishing dramatically reduces the population of the fishes that are being targeted by fishing companies. For example, the Chinese have overfished their fish populations in the East China Sea, so now they are fishing illegally on Philippine, and Argentine waters. This is now a crisis because if they have overfished their population, then they will … Read more
On a relatively cool Tuesday afternoon, as I took the short walk from Allen to North Stadium drive, the hustle of students attempting to gain access to the buses gave the insight that today’s classes were coming to a close. Those selective few whom decided to make that tortuous walk to the commuter parking lot … Read more
We just got off the plane and we are in Atlanta, Georgia. We came from Ohio and it was about an hour and a half to Atlanta. Atlanta is the biggest airport in the U. S. A. They had a big food court and a lot of shops to shop in. We were heading to … Read more
Fishing has become my favorite hobby in the last decade of my life. I have been fishing, specifically Lake Conroe, since the age of 9 and I have found myself on the Lake more and more these past years. I believe fishing to a social sport. We all know that fishing is relaxing being out … Read more
“‘The black bass thinks he can be king of the fish, but all he wants is to eat them. The black bass is a killer. But the real kind is the golden carp, Tony. He does not eat his own kind-’ Cico’s eyes remained glued on the dark waters. His body was motionless, like a … Read more