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NYC - AMNH: Mammuthus Primigenius
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Mummified face and forelimb of Mammuthus primigenius
The woolly mammoth inhabited regions above the Arctic Circle in North America, Europe and Asia during the Ice Ages. It became extinct at the end of the last Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago. Nevertheless, we have a good idea of what it looked like because of mummified remains, such as those of Effie, and because the animal was depicted in cake paintings by humans living at the same time. Such evidence has established that Mammuthus primigenius was covered with long hair and dense underwool. This hair gave the woolly mammoth its name and helped protect it from the freezing arctic temperatures.
FAM 99927, collected by O. Geist, 1948, Fairbanks, Alaska
Soldadinho no pé de pinha / A "little soldier" in a sugar-apple tree
Image by Marcio Cabral de Moura
O cabeça-de-negro (Annona coriacea) é um arbusto ou árvore pequena da família das anonáceas, que ocorre no Brasil). Possui folhas ovadas, coriáceas, flores amarelas e frutos bacáceos múltiplos, grandes, comestíveis, com sementes tidas como antidiarréicas. Também é conhecido pelos nomes de araticum-do-campo, araticum-dos-lisos e marolinho.
O fruto, muito saboroso, é conhecido por fruta-do-conde, pelo fato da primeira muda da espécie, vinda das Antilhas, ter sido plantada na Bahia, em 1626, pelo governador Diogo Luís de Oliveira, o Conde de Miranda, conforme relato de Pio Corrêa. Em Pernambuco, Brasília e interior do estado do Rio de Janeiro a "fruta do conde" é conhecida como pinha, sendo plantada atualmente no Vale do São Francisco, incluindo a fruta modificada sem sementes. Somente em 1811, a espécie foi introduzida no Rio de Janeiro, por um agrônomo francês, a pedido do rei Dom João VI.
É também conhecido no Nordeste do Brasil como pinha ou ata. Quando está maduro, o fruto abre-se.
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Membracis foliata Linnaeus, 1758
kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Arthropoda - arthropods » class Insecta - Insects » order Hemiptera - Bugs » family Membracidae - Treehoppers
Annona squamosa (also called sugar-apple, or sweetsop) is a species of Annona native to the tropical Americas. Its exact native range is unknown due to extensive cultivation, but thought to be in the Caribbean; the species was described from Jamaica. And in Indonesia it become extinct.
It is a semi-evergreen shrub or small tree reaching 6–8 meters (20–26 ft) tall. The leaves are alternate, simple, oblong-lanceolate, 5–17 cm (2.0–6.7 in) long and 2–5 centimeters (0.79–2.0 in) broad. The flowers are produced in clusters of 3-4, each flower 1.5–3 cm (0.59–1.2 in) across, with three large petals and three minute ones, yellow-green spotted purple at the base.
The fruit is usually round, slightly pine cone-like, 6–10 cm (2.4–3.9 in) diameter and weighing 100–230 g (3.5–8.1 oz), with a scaly or lumpy skin. There are variations in shape and size. The fruit flesh is sweet, white to light yellow, and resembles and tastes like custard. The edible portion coats the seeds generously; a bit like the gooey portion of a tomato seed. Sugar-apple has a very distinct, sweet-smelling fragrance. The texture of the flesh that coats the seeds is a bit like the center of a very ripe guava (excluding the seeds). It is slightly grainy, a bit slippery, very sweet and very soft. The seeds are scattered through the fruit flesh; the seed coats are blackish-brown, 12–18 mm (0.47–0.71 in) long, and hard and shiny.
There are also new varieties being developed in Taiwan. There is a pineapple sugar-apple, which is similar in sweetness but has a very different taste. Like the name suggests, it tastes like pineapple. The arrangement of seeds is in spaced rows, with the fruit's flesh filling most of the fruit and making grooves for the seeds, instead of the flesh only occurring around the seeds.
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Kipahulu Valley
Image by tslaks82
The Kipahulu Valley was deemed an ecological preserve in 1967 by the Nature Conservancy and the State of Hawaii. The valley is a prime habitat for many rare plant and animal species, some of which have previously been thought to be extinct. Access to the Kipahulu Valley is restricted to the general public due to the fragile and highly threatened environment.
