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While the regurgitation of the bone is advantageous in that it frees space in the stomach for new prey, the behavior can be harmful in that the pellets are often larger than the digestive tract and could cause damage or obstruction. [18] In addition, the bearded vulture is a specialized bone-eater with bones making up 70–90% of its diet. [19]
Florentino Ameghino claimed in a letter to Édouard Trouessart that he had specimens from Argentina of "petrified masses preserving skeletons of large rodents, Interatheriidae [small notoungulates] and even Proterotheriidae [deer-sized litopterns], with all their bones crushed and corroded, piled on with no apparent order and forming a nearly ...
Carnivory can be inferred for Teleocrater from the single tooth that was preserved, which is compressed, recurved, and bears serrations on both edges. Like other members of the Archosauria, the recess in the maxilla in front of the antorbital fenestra (the antorbital fossa) extends onto the backward-projecting process of the bone, and the palatal projection of the two maxillae contacted each ...
This list of Nepenthes species is a comprehensive listing of all known species of the carnivorous plant genus Nepenthes. It includes 179 recognised extant species, 2 incompletely diagnosed taxa , and 3 nothospecies .
A sanctuary near the town of Corella, on the Philippine island of Bohol, is having some success restoring tarsier populations. [48] The Philippines Tarsier Foundation (PTFI) has developed a large, semi-wild enclosure known as the Tarsier Research and Development Center.
Around 5 p.m. local time on Sunday, Nov. 3, a passerby told police they saw two bones near the Delaware River at Penn Treaty Park, according to CBS affiliate KYW-TV and USA Today.
The bones were found just feet (meters) from Jane's Carousel, a merry-go-round that was built in 1922 for an amusement park in Youngstown, Ohi ... Human bones found near carousel in waterfront ...
Carnotaurus is the only known carnivorous bipedal animal with a pair of horns on the frontal bone. [45] The use of these horns is not entirely clear. Several interpretations have revolved around use in fighting conspecifics or in killing prey, though a use in display for courtship or recognition of members of the same species is possible as ...