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The thorny devil (Moloch horridus), also known commonly as the mountain devil, thorny lizard, thorny dragon, and moloch, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to Australia. It is the sole species in the genus Moloch. It grows up to 21 cm (8.3 in) in total length (including tail), with females generally larger ...
The thorny devil color ranges from light brown to black and resembles bark or rotten wood. Both sexes are wingless and armored with spines on body and legs. Exhibiting the sexual dimorphism of many similar insects (particularly other phasmids as well as mantises ), males are small and thinner, less than 9-10 cm long while females are typically ...
Pair from philippine island Palawan Very light colored and normally colored females. Aretaon asperrimus is a species of insect in the Aretaon genus of the Phasmatodea order.The sometimes used common name thorny stick insect is a bit misleading, since the species does not correspond to the typical stick-like habitus and many other species are thorny as well.
Archaeologists believe they may have discovered the final location of Noah’s Ark on Turkey’s Mount Ararat. Soil samples from atop the highest peaks in Turkey reveal human activity and marine ...
[56] [57] In the Ames test, an extract of A. montana was found to be mutagenic. [55] The plant's toxicity has led to the U.S. FDA officially declaring it to be unsafe. Arum maculatum: cuckoo-pint, lords and ladies, jack-in-the-pulpit, wake robin, wild arum, devils and angels, cows and bulls, Adam and Eve, bobbins, starch-root Araceae
Aussie Ark is located on 1,350 m (4,430 ft) altitude in similar weather conditions as found in Tasmania at 500 hectares breeding facility at Ellerston station, just north of Barrington Tops in New South Wales; [1] an initiative of the Australian Reptile Park. In 2013 it was announced that Devil Ark would open for tours on the first Saturday of ...
In the early 1900s, the region also earned the nickname of "Devil's Country", after several prospectors claimed to have encountered or witnessed "devil-creatures"—alleged to be a form of bipedal, ape-like humanoid, such as sasquatch (i.e. "Bigfoot"). Thomas Bay is named after U.S. Navy officer Charles M. Thomas.
Aralia spinosa, commonly known as devil's walking stick, is a woody species of plant in the genus Aralia of the family Araliaceae. It is native to eastern North America . The various names refer to the viciously sharp, spiny stems, petioles and even leaf midribs.