... soft-bodied fossils justifies the characterization of the Precambrian as the "age of the jellyfish," however the term jellyfish only refers to a number of diverse forms, which belong to the Phylum Cnideria. (Glaessner 64) Six principle forms of animals have been discovered. The first are the rounded, discoidal impressions, resembling the modern day jellyfish. The second form is the stalk-like ... fronds with grooved branches that also belong to the Cnideria Phylum. Next come the elongated worm-like impressions with a horseshoe shaped head followed by 40 identical segments and rounded fl...

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... to the family megalonychidae. Modern sloths live upside-down in the forests of South America. Despite their long, sharply curved claws, they are herbivores, and mainly eat tree leaves as there teeth are to primitive and weak, due to lack of enamel, to chew anything else. The claws are part of their adaptation to life in ... move around little when awake. When they do move, it is at a slow speed. This slow way of life is necessary to navigate the web of small peripheral tree branches where they feed and is further reflected in their rate of metabolism, only defecate once or twice in a on...

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Known for their beautiful coats and endangered status, ocelots are very interesting animals. They are classified as Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Chordata, Class Mammalia, Order Carivora, Family Felidae, Subfamily Falinae, Genus Leopardus, and Species Leopardus Pardalis. They were very difficult to research as there are few programs in the United States ... will usually partly cover that of several females. Ocelots consume an extreme variety of different foods, though they are carnivores. Their prey will include rabbits, rodents, monkeys, lesser anteaters, iguanas, tree lizards, frogs, small turt...

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... 1/2 of the world's species. FALSE - 1,000,000 Arthropods!! - 270,000 Plants - 70,000 Fungi (More related to Animals than plan, share very little similarities with plants when put in the tree of life) - 45,000 vertebrates (Birds are Reptiles) - 40,000 Protists (Algae is a protist, not a plant), (Plasmodium is the protist that causes Malaria) True or False All species on earth ... : The relative abundance of species. (2) (1) Green - 4 1 Yellow - 4 2 Blue - 4 9 Red - 4 3 Black - 0 1 Disparity: The extent of differences between species Blue (Circles), Yellow (Triangles), Orange (Suns) What a...

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