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Saturday, February 4, 2012

Pilot Whale – Scary and Magnificent

August 18, 2010 by  
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The pilot whale is either of two species of cetacean  in the genus  Globicephala. The genus is part of the oceanic dolphin family (Delphinidae) although their behavior is closer to that of the larger whales. The two species are the Long-finned Pilot Whale and the Short-finned Pilot Whale. The two are not readily distinguished at [...]

Scorpions

December 2, 2009 by  
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Scorpions are predatory arthropod animals of the order Scorpiones within the class Arachnida. There are about 2,000 species of scorpions, found widely distributed south of about 49° N, except New Zealand and Antarctica. The northernmost part of the world where scorpions live in the wild is Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in the UK, [...]