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Holy Crap! Billions of ants in one colony



One of the largest ant colonies ever discovered to [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]date[/color][/color] stretches over 4,000 miles across Europe and is estimated to number in the billions of ants. The colony shown in the video below; and the picture above, is approximately 500 square feet in size and goes 25 feet into the ground.
In order to be able to see exactly how a colony structure is made up the scientists filled the colony with [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]concrete[/color][/color] – 10 tons of it. It took almost a month before they could actually start excavating the site in order to see how it was constructed.

YouTube - Ants!

A cool excerpt from an anthropological dig on one of the biggest ant colonies ever cataloged--the ant equivalent of the Great Wall of China.

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The Phyllobate Terribilis is the most poisonous frog in the world. It has enough toxin to kill up to 10 humans,or even 20,000 mice! This frog is considered the most poisonous animal in the world. If you were to take poison from this frog, equal to the size of the period at the end of this sentence, it would be enough to kill a full grown human. This frog is aggresive, yet does very well with other Terribilis' in captivity. For the most part, this frog is for more experienced people in the hobby.



Indricotherium? largest mamal ever lived.





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Carcharodon megalodon represents the largest, meat-eating fish to have ever lived
Man sitting on a life size restoration of the jawsmegalodon?
C. megalodon is an ancient shark, now extinct, which is believed to resemble or even be the ancestor of the modern Great White Shark (C. carcharius). Unfortunately, like all sharks the meg has a skeleton made of cartilage which doesn’t fossilize, so most of the evidence we have comes from the teeth of these animals.
Now scientists have determined, using computer modeling, the maximum bite force these sharks were capable of producing and the conclusions are astounding. While humans can manage about 80kg of pressure, lions 560kg and the fearsome T. Rex 3.1 tonnes, C. megalodon could produce up to 18 tonnes of pressure at the edges of its serrated teeth.
That is one scary animal right there…




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Phyllobates terribilis - yellow poison dart frog



-No it's not aggresive, only during breeding season where males tends to fight for a female. This frog carries batrachotoxins that cause irreversible muscle contractions leading to heart failure. A touch from this frog could prove lethal, since minute pores pour out toxins that can enter our skin pores. But, as study shows that although in captive conditons they retain their toxins, most captive bred ones has zero amounts of toxin (because study shows that toxins are created during digestion of native insects and bugs compared to a feeder roach or mealworm, which does not aquire compunds to make toxin necessary for the frog.) Indian hunters tip their darts (hence the name) w/ these frogs, holding them in foot w/ a leaf barrier. Then when they hunt w/ their blow dart and striked, say for example a bird, they lick the part of the carcass to locate the spread of poison and cut it away. Why the indians can't ingest the toxins is unknown.

reference:
National Geographic Magazine VoL. 187, No.5 May 1995

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nice posts nalingaw gyud kog basa.. thanks sa mga post cromagnon, also to moy1moy1, touching kaayo ang second chance og christian the lion... hope maka post sad ko soon..

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The Largest Natural Buildings



If you travel along the African or Australian or South American dry savannas, you will see from far away some strange constructions resembling the towers of a castle. The architects that build them are the termites, insects of the Isoptera, that live in colonies made of millions of individuals.

They are called also "white ants", but have nothing to do with the real ants (which are related to the wasps and bees); they are closer to...cockroaches. And termites emerged much before the ants, being more than 200 million years old, when dinosaurs had not even appeared. Today, they are found everywhere in warm and subtropical regions.

They number about 4,000 species, adapted to live hidden in their dark nests. The base of their diet is formed by cellulose, which they procure either from wood or dead grassy vegetation. They avoid the open spaces, as their body is soft, and termites are appreciated by many birds, mammals, reptiles and even...ants. There are large mammal species whose diet is based on insects, like the anteaters from tropical America or the African aardvark.


Inside a colony, like in ants, there are specialized castes, of soldiers and workers, and a pair of queen and king. Unlike ants, the workers and soldiers are sterile individuals of both sexes, not just females. Termite soldiers are armed with huge jaws, or can emit a sticky toxic substance (in South American species). They are all blind, but due to their highly developed olfactory sense and sensitivity for vibrations, they do their job very well. Inside the colony, individuals communicate using pheromones.
imba kaau mo structure sa ila ventelation...

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BIGGEST SNAKE PHOTOS: Prehistoric Giant Discovered




February 4, 2009--The biggest snake yet discovered, Titanoboa cerrejones, slithers alongside one of its presumed prey, a primitive crocodile, 60 million years ago in an artist's conception. (View a prehistoric time line.)

At least 42 feet (13 meters) long and weighing 2,500 pounds (1,135 kilograms), the snake was "longer than a city bus ... and heavier than a car," said University of Toronto Mississauga biologist Jason Head, who announced the find today.





Found in a Colombian coal mine, a vertebra from a 45-foot (14-meter) Titanoboa cerrejones dwarfs a similar bone from a 17-foot (5.2-meter) anaconda--currently the world's biggest, if not longest, snake species. (View anaconda pictures and facts.)

The ancient snake's giant size suggests that mean year-round temperatures in the tropics were several degrees warmer than they are today, according to a study that analyzed the relationships among a snake's body size, its metabolism, and the outside temperature.

"We were able to use the snake, if you will, as a giant fossil thermometer," said biologist Jason Head, lead author of the new study, to be published February 5, 2009, in the journal Nature.

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The oldest living animal species on Earth cannot be known for sure, because not every animal species or fossil has yet been discovered, but our current best guess is the horseshoe crab, which has remained pretty much unchanged since the Ordovician period, 445 million years ago. To put this in perspective, multicellular animals only appear in the fossil record about 600 million years ago, and the typical duration of an animal species is just a few million years. For instance, Tyrannosaurus rex lived for only about three million years. In contrast, the horseshoe crab has existed for about 74% of the time that animals in general have.

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PREHISTORIC? UNCHANGED? naapa ae:

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PREHISTORIC? UNCHANGED? naapa ae:


-mao na cya ang coelacanth ,which they thought it was already instict . bout found by fisherman , it think in indonesia and japan .. .
dugay na kau ni cya ....

the nautilus i think ang mas dugay , wla pay dinosaur .. . and they did really reamin un changed ..
they even came in different shapes . ..

parenti to nila ang largest shell . tingale na ni dominate sa sea before.. mga sea monster..

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the nautilus i think ang mas dugay , wla pay dinosaur .. . and they did really reamin un changed ..
they even came in different shapes . ..

parenti to nila ang largest shell . tingale na ni dominate sa sea before.. mga sea monster..

so true, hehe asta k2 super mega squid nga ang shell kae murag turret