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Genus Bubo – the horned owls, eagle-owls and fish-owls; paraphyletic with the genera Nyctea, Ketupa, and Scotopelia, some 25 species; Genus Glaucidium – the pygmy owls, about 30–35 species; Genus Gymnasio – the Puerto Rican owl; Genus Gymnoglaux – the bare-legged owl or Cuban screech-owl; Genus Lophostrix – the crested owl
With only a handful of species surviving today, the Nautiloids flourished during the early Paleozoic era, from the Late Cambrian, where they constituted the main predatory animals. [71] Haikouichthys, a jawless fish, is popularized as one of the earliest fishes and probably a basal chordate or a basal craniate. [72]
Cross sectioned great grey owl specimen showing the extent of the body plumage, Zoological Museum, Copenhagen Skeleton of a Strigidae owl. While typical owls (hereafter referred to simply as owls) vary greatly in size, with the smallest species, the elf owl, being a hundredth the size of the largest, the Eurasian eagle-owl and Blakiston's fish owl, owls generally share an extremely similar ...
A = Anapsid, B = Synapsid, C = Diapsid. It was traditionally assumed that first reptiles were anapsids, having a solid skull with holes only for the nose, eyes, spinal cord, etc.; [10] the discoveries of synapsid-like openings in the skull roof of the skulls of several members of Parareptilia, including lanthanosuchoids, millerettids, bolosaurids, some nycteroleterids, some procolophonoids and ...
Anoles on a given island evolve into multiple body types and ecological preferences, and the same set of body types appears in unrelated species across distant islands. [93] The Asian sea snake Hydrophis schistosus (beaked sea snake) looks just like the Australian sea snake Hydrophis zweifeli, but in fact is not related. [94]
Tawny fish owl: Ketupa flavipes (Hodgson, 1836) 196 Buffy fish owl: Ketupa ketupu (Horsfield, 1821) 197 Barred eagle-owl: Ketupa sumatrana (Raffles, 1822) 198 Spot-bellied eagle-owl: Ketupa nipalensis (Hodgson, 1836) 199 Dusky eagle-owl: Ketupa coromanda (Latham, 1790) 200 Philippine eagle-owl: Ketupa philippensis (Kaup, 1851) 201 Pel's fishing owl
When it comes to The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, it's a different story. First published in 2008, Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games didn't premiere its first film adaptation ...
Their study concluded that these owls could adapt depending on the prey and also with the other predators in the areas where they live. Engel et al. (2015) in Chain O'Lakes State Park, Illinois, during the winter of 1987–88, compared northern saw-whet owls to long-eared owls. Engel confirmed the saw-whet owl's strong preference for small mammals.