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The song "Ode to a Koala Bear" appears on the B-side of the 1983 Paul McCartney/Michael Jackson duet single Say Say Say. [11]: 151 A koala is the main character in animated cartoons in the early 1980s: Hanna-Barbera's The Kwicky Koala Show and Nippon Animation's Noozles.
Billed snouts on the duck-billed dinosaurs hadrosaurs are strikingly convergent with ducks and the duck-billed platypus. [76] Ichthyosaurs (such as Ophthalmosaurus) [77] are marine reptile of the Mesozoic era which looked strikingly like dolphins. [78] Several groups of marine reptiles evolved hyperphalangy similar to modern whales. [61]
The term "opossum" is used to refer to American species (though "possum" is a common abbreviation), while similar Australian species are properly called "possums". Isolated petrosals of Djarthia murgonensis , Australia's oldest marsupial fossils [ 71 ] Dentition of the herbivorous eastern grey kangaroo, as illustrated in Knight's Sketches in ...
The male Hawaiian duck has an average length of 48–50 cm (19–19.5 in) and the female has an average length of 40–43 cm (15.5–17 in). [10] On average, the male weighs 604 grams (21.3 ounces) and the female weighs 460 grams (16 ounces). [11] The Hawaiian duck is typically smaller than the mallard by 20 to 30 percent. [12] [13]
Diprotodontia (/ d aɪ ˌ p r oʊ t ə ˈ d ɒ n t i ə /, from Greek "two forward teeth") is the largest extant order of marsupials, with about 155 species, [2] including the kangaroos, wallabies, possums, koala, wombats, and many others. Extinct diprotodonts include the hippopotamus-sized Diprotodon, and Thylacoleo, the so-called "marsupial ...
Footage captured Toni Doherty using the shirt off her own back to rescue a singed koala trapped amid flames near the town of Long Flat in New South Wales, which has been ravaged by fire for weeks.
The fusiform bodyshape (a tube tapered at both ends) adopted by many aquatic animals is an adaptation to enable them to travel at high speed in a high drag environment. [37] Similar body shapes are found in the earless seals and the eared seals : they still have four legs, but these are strongly modified for swimming.
A great white shark that washed ashore at a Cape Cod beach earlier this week is named Koala, and was known to local researchers, investigators said. Its cause of death is still a mystery, as a ...