Happy #FossilFriday! Today we bring you Allosaurus. Did you know? This intimidating carnivore reigned as one of the Late Jurassic’s top predators some 140 million years ago.
In the Museum’s Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs, Allosaurus is posed feeding on a partial carcass of the sauropod Apatosaurus. You can spot another Allosaurus in the Museum’s Rotunda, where it’s depicted attacking another long-necked dinosaur, the Barosaurus, and its young.
The white-nosed coati (Nasua narica) has a tail that’s just as long as its body, but its nose may be its most impressive feature!👃🏼
With an abundance of sensory receptors around its snout, this raccoon relative has a sharp sense of smell. A variety of muscles at the tip of its nose make it highly flexible—perfect for poking around the forest floor for grubs, ants, and beetles. When drinking water, the coati can even curl its nose upwards to avoid getting it wet! It has a wide range across the Americas, from Arizona to the Andes.
Spectacularly camouflaged to mirror kelp or seaweed, the leafy sea dragon (Phycodurus eques) inhabits seagrass meadows and seagrass beds around the southern coast of Australia.
Like seahorse males, sea dragon dads are the ones to carry the developing offspring, up to 100-250 fertilized eggs. But while seahorses have a pouch, sea dragons tuck their precious cargo under their tails into “eggcups” that hold one egg each, nourishing it with oxygen until hatching day.
The aardvark (Orycteropus afer) is one for a nighttime snack. This mostly nocturnal animal spends the day sleeping in its burrow, but at night it springs into action, consuming as many as 50,000 insects in one evening!🐜
It uses its 1-foot- (0.3-meter)-long tongue to scoop up ants and termites, which it swallows whole. It lives in parts of southern Africa including Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe, where it inhabits grassland and savannas. This expert digger can excavate more than 1.7 feet (0.5 meters) in 15 seconds—which comes in handy when it’s looking for its next meal, making a place to nap, escaping from predators, or creating elaborate tunnels where moms give birth to young.
Photo: Albert Herbigneaux, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr
Funny how he now considers vehicles as weapons now when he failed to mention their usage during the BLM protests or any left adjacent protest. But it’s weirder that this guy, 18 years old btw, allegedly ran a series of red lights and now he is immediately being labeled as a terrorist or criminal.
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