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Anglerfish

2012-06-24T16:41:37Z

JaysonPengis: Fish

[[image:Ceratias holboelli.jpg|thumb|200px|Krøyer's deep sea angler fish, ''Ceratias holboelli'']]
'''Anglerfish''' are a bony fish found in the most of the world's [[ocean]]s either in deep abyssal waters or on the [[continental shelf]]. They are characterized by a large [[mouth]] and a mThey are characterized by a large [[mouth]] and a modified extended spine on the forehead with a long fleshy filament terminating in an irregular growth (known as an esca). The spine and filament resemble a fishing rod which the anglerfish uses to lure prey close to its mouth. The anglerfish wiggles the lure (esca) to attract small fish or shrimps closer to its large mouth and an automatic reflex sucks the prey into its massive mouth when the [[tentacle]] is touched. In some deep-sea varieties the end of the esca may be bioluminescent. odified extended spine on the forehead with a long fleshy filament terminating in an irregular growth (known as an escThey are characterized by a large [[mouth]] and a modified extended spine on the forehead with a long fleshy filament terminating in an irregular growth (known as an esca). The spine and filament resemble a fishing rod which the anglerfish uses to lure prey close to its mouth. The anglerfish wiggles the lure (esca) to attract small fish or shrimps closer to its large mouth and an automatic reflex sucks the prey into its massive mouth when the [[tentacle]] is touched. In some deep-sea varieties the end of the esca may be bioThey are characterized by a large [[mouth]] and a modified extended spine on the forehead with a long fleshy filament terminating in an irregular growth (known as an esca). The spine and filament resemble a fishing rod which the anglerfish uses to lure prey close to its mouth. The anglerfish wiggles the lure (esca) to attract small fish or shrimps closer to its large mouth and an automatic reflex sucks the prey into its massive mouth when the [[tentacle]] is touched. In some deep-sea varieties the end of the esca may be bioluminescent. luminescent. a). The spine and filament resemble a fishing rod which the anglerfish uses to lure prey close to its mouth. The anglerfish wiggles the lure (esca) to attract small fish or shrimps closer to its large mouth and an automatic reflex sucks the prey into its massive mouth when the [[tentacle]] is touched. In some deep-sea varieties the end of the esca may be bioluminescent.

Varieties of the genus ''Lophius'', known as monkfish or goosefish, are known for their fine eating properties.

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They are characterized by a large [[mouth]] and a modified extended spine on the forehead with a long fleshy filament terminating in an irregular growth (known as an esca). The spine and filament resemble a fishing rod which the anglerfish uses to lure prey close to its mouth. The anglerfish wiggles the lure (esca) to attract smallThey are characterized by a large [[mouth]] and a modified extended spine on the forehead with a long fleshy filament terminating in an irregular growth (known as an esca). The spine and filament resemble a fishing rod which the anglerfish uses to lure prey close to its mouth. The anglerfish wiggles the lure (esca) to attract small fish or shrimps closer to its large mouth and an automatic reflex sucks the prey into its massive mouth when the [[tentacle]] is touched. In some deep-sea varieties the end of the esca may be bioluminescent. fish or shrimps closer to its large mouth and an automatic reflex sucks the prey into its massive mouth when the [[tentacle]] is touchedThey are characterized by a large [[mouth]] and a modified extended spine on the forehead with a long fleshy filament terminating in an irregular growth (known as an esca). The spine and filament resemble a fishing rod which the anglerfish uses to lure prey close to its mouth. The anglerfish wiggles the lure (esca) to attract small fish or shrimps closer to its large mouth and an automatic refleThey are characterized by a large [[mouth]] and a modified extended spine on the forehead with a long fleshy filament terminating in an irregular growth (known as an esca). The spine and filament resemble a fishing rod which the anglerfish uses to lure prey close to its mouth. The anglerfish wiggles the lure (esca) to attract small fish or shrimps closer to its large mouth and an automatic reflex sucks the prey into its massive mouth when the [[tentacle]] is touched. In some deep-sea varieties the end of the esca may be bioluminescent. x sucks the prey into its massive mouth when the [[tentacle]] is touched. In some deep-sea varieties the end of the esca may be bioluminescent. . In some deep-sea varieties the end of the esca may be bioluminescent.

Dragons

2012-06-24T16:39:39Z

JaysonPengis: HR PUFFINSTUFF

[[Image:Drgon.jp

The ancient Greeks knewarticularly as dragon-slayers. The most famouse being Saint George but also Saint Mercurialis, the first bishop of the city of Forlì, Saint Julian of Le Mans, Saint Verescentinus, Saint Margaret of Antioch, Saint Martha and Saint Leonard of Noblac.

==Dragons and Modern Science==
Modern [[science]] does not accept ancient accounts of seeingragons as mythical, being loosely based on creatures such as [[snake]]s. This has been contested on the basis that snakes do not have legs like dragons, nor do they grow nearly as large as dragons.

Modern psychology and paleontology offers us one explanation; the features of the majority of dragons are a chimeric combination of several different types of anehistoric man had to fear. prey, big cats, and large reptiles being among man's chief competitors in prehistoric times, it is e dragon was an amalgamation of these animals as a remnant of instinctual memories.

==In Popular Culture==
Dragons are popular in science fiction movies and fantasy role playing games, [[Dungeons and Dragons]] being an example.

*[http://www.ine.com/articles/2005/canadian_seaserpents.html Sea Serpents of Canada]

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Velociraptor

2012-06-24T16:37:58Z

JaysonPengis: Bird

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'''Velociraptor''' ("fast hunter") is the name for a small, fast-running, carnivorous [[dinosaur]].
Velociraptor was small for a dromaeosaurid, with adults measuring up to 1.8 meters (5.9 ft) long, 0.62 meters (2 ft) high at the hip, and weighing 20 kilograms (45 lb)<ref>Norell, M.A. & Makovicky, P.J. 1999. Important features of the dromaeosaurid skeleton II: information from newly collected specimens of Velociraptor mongoliensis. American Museum Novitates 3282</ref>
The velociraptor is now extinct.

According to [[young earth creationism|young-Earth creationists]], the velociraptor was created on the sixth creation day (approximately 6000 B.C.)<ref>http://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/gen_1-2.shtml</ref><ref>http://www.albatrus.org/english/theology/creation/biblical_age_earth.htm</ref> and became extinct sometime in the last 4,350 years since the [[great flood|Flood]].

[[Evolutionists]] believe that the velociraptor existed between 99 and 65 million years ago, in the late [[Cretaceous]].<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9074983/Velociraptor Velociraptor] in Encyclopedia Britannica</ref>

The first Velociraptor [[fossil]] was found in [[Mongolia]] in the 1920s by an American Museum of Natural History expedition, and a number of fossils have been found since then in Mongolia and northern [[China]]. The most well-known find, discovered in 1971, includes a complete Velociraptor skeleton wrapped around that of a Protoceratops, an early ceratopsian and ancestor of [[Triceratops]]. The two were apparently in mid-fight when they were buried.<ref>''The Complete Book of Dinosaurs'', by Dougal Dixon, Hermes House, 2006</ref>

==Did it have feathers?==
"The researchers believe the bumps on the arm bone are remnants of [[quill]] knobs, places where the quills of secondary feathers — important for flight in many modern birds — were anchored to the bone." [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297503,00.html] Also, it is important to note that velociraptors are MFOING BIRDS.

== Stephen Spielberg's ''Jurassic Park'' ==
The Velociraptor played a prominent part in Stephen Spielberg's motion picture ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' in which it was misrepresented as a much larger creature. It was in fact merely the size of a turkey.<ref>http://www.answers.com/topic/velociraptor</ref> The version of the Velociraptor in ''Jurassic Park'' more closely resembled a [[Deinonychus]], a close relative of Velociraptor.

== References ==
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2012-06-24T16:36:06Z

JaysonPengis: DQ

Dairy queen.

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2012-06-24T16:34:42Z

JaysonPengis: Beaver

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Look at my beaver.