Local officials warn of crocodile attacks in Isabela river

Crocodile in the River

 
Philippines, Nueva Vizcaya – Authorities from an interior town in the northern province of Isabela have advised residents to avoid going near the Gilingan River after young crocodiles were caught there Wednesday.

Gacap Jose, chief of Benito Soliven’s Gilingan village reported over Bombo Radyo Cauayan that residents captured the three fresh-water crocs, prompting village officials to issue a warning because it was likely that adult crocodiles could be somewhere near the area.

Also, the warning stemmed from a report a crocodile attacked a pregnant woman – but survived — six months ago in Benito Soliven’s neighboring town of San Mariano, where a crocodile sanctuary was supposed to have been built.

According to Jose, there is reason for them to believe that the captured crocodiles were offspring of those that were released by a non-government organization in some rivers in Isabela last year.

Sumatran Tigers Lies Dead

Dead Tigers

JAKARTA, Indonesia – All of the animals at Indonesia's largest zoo — many of them critically endangered — could be dead within five years unless strong action is taken to change the culture of neglect and corruption that permeates the facility, a zoo offecial said Saturday.
An endangered Sumatran tiger was found dead Saturday morning in its cage at the Surabaya Zoo, spokesman Agus Supangkat said.
The remaining 13 Sumatran tigers are being kept in dirty, cramped cages and are also at great risk, said Tonny Sumampouw, the chairman of the country's zoo association who has been tasked with overseeing the facility after the government took it over earlier this year.

"Spectacular" Deep-Sea Species Found

An unidentified sea pen (pictured) belonging to the order Pennatulacea has been discovered during the July 2010 expedition on the Atlantic coast off Newfoundland.

Actually soft corals, sea pens are so named because their rows of polyps resemble old-fashioned quill pens, according to the University of California Museum of Paleontology.

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Dinosaur bones made a handy food supplement

In life, dinosaurs struck terror into the mammals they lived alongside. In death, they provided them with a handy source of calcium.

That's the conclusion of palaeontologists who have reinvestigated tooth marks found on dinosaur bones.

It was previously thought that these marks were made solely by other dinosaurs. The distinctive bites of tyrannosaurs, including Tyrannosaurus rex and its smaller relatives, are common on late Cretaceous fossils from Alberta in Canada, says Nick Longrich of Yale University. "If you go through fossil collections at random, you'll see a fair percentage with bite marks from tyrannosaurs."

But two bones dating back 75 million years at the Royal Tyrrell Musuem in Drumheller, Alberta, have different markings, Longrich discovered. These suggested that animals with pairs of closely spaced incisors in their upper and lower jaws had dug into the bones in the same way a person's teeth dig into corn on the cob.

The size and separation of the scratches indicated the animals were mammals similar in size to a modern chipmunk or squirrel.

Ceratosaurus Dinosaur

Ceratosaurus means ' horned reptile.' It was discovered by O.C Marsh in 18184. There are 3 classification, Saurischia, Theropoda and Ceratosauridae and it remains found in North America and East Africa.

These have a dimension of 6 metre length, 2 metres height and 900 kilograms weight. There food was carnivore.

Ceratosaurus was a strange dinosaur distinguished by several little horns on its skull. A larger one on the nostrils and two smaller ones above the eyes. Its teeth were barbed anusually large.
Along the back and tail was a kind of crest consisting of small, bony nodules.
Ceratosaurus was a biped and the front limbs had hands with four digits.

Carnotaurus Dinosaur

Carnotaurus mean's 'carnivorous bull'.it was discovered by Bonapare in 1985. there are 3 classification of Carnotaurus Saurischia, Theropoda and Abelisauridae. There remains from South America.

They have 7.5 metres length, 3 metres height and 1 tonne weight of dimensions. The food was carnivore.

Canotaurus was a large biped predator. The head was strong and imposing, with the teeth serrated like butcher's knives. The most distinctive features of this dinosaur were the two protuberances on its skull, like flat horns emerging above the ayes and its very short nose. Its arms were also unusual, very small in relation to the body, with a well-developed humerus but an extremely small radius and ulna.

There were four digits on the hand, one of which, unusually, turned inwards. Scientists have not yet established what purpose the very small arms serve, with the digits arranged in this unusual mannner.

The only remains of Carnotaurus were found in the prairies of Patagonia in Argentina in 1985. The palaeontologists were lucky enough also to find strips of fossilised skin, so they could form a more accurate idea of the external appearance of this creature. From the neck to the tail the skin had rows of small conical protuberances, while on the head were smaller little humps from which ran rows of large protuberant scale, covering the area round the eyes and the upper part of the nose.