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1 day ago · Scallop (/ ˈ s k ɒ l ə p, ˈ s k æ l ə p /) is a common name that encompasses various species of marine bivalve mollusks in the taxonomic family Pectinidae, the scallops.However, the common name "scallop" is also sometimes applied to species in other closely related families within the superfamily Pectinoidea, which also includes the thorny oysters.
1 hour ago · Looking up at forest canopy hi-res stock photography and images. 59 700 Tree Canopy Stock Photos Pictures Royalty-Free Images. Looking up at the canopy of trees in a forest photo Free Oud. File A view up at an old growth canopy trees.jpg - Wikimedia Commons. Canopy biology - Wikipedia. Looking Up At Winter Tree Canopy by Peter Adams
1 day ago · Bacillariae Haeckel, 1878 [5] Bacillariophyta Engler & Gilg, 1919 [6] A diatom ( Neo-Latin diatoma) [a] is any member of a large group comprising several genera of algae, specifically microalgae, found in the oceans, waterways and soils of the world. Living diatoms make up a significant portion of the Earth's biomass: they generate about 20 to ...
1 day ago · 1912 - Heinrich Baumhauer discovered and described polytypism in crystals of carborundum, or silicon carbide. [50] 1913 - Lawrence Bragg published the first observation of x-ray diffraction by crystals. [51] 1913 - Georges Friedel stated Friedel's law, a property of Fourier transforms of real functions.
1 hour ago · Tiger. The tiger ( Panthera tigris) is the largest living cat species and a member of the genus Panthera native to Asia. It has a powerful, muscular body with a large head and paws, a long tail, and distinctive black, mostly vertical stripes on orange fur.
1 day ago · The Amazon rainforest, often hailed as the “lungs of the Earth,” is facing a dire threat from an unexpected source: wildfires raging through its untouched, old-growth forests. Despite a decrease in deforestation rates in 2023, a new survey reveals a staggering 152% increase in these devastating fires compared to the previous year. Paradoxical problem of… Continue reading Wildfires in old ...
1 day ago · Cavin et al. (2024) describe fossil material of a large-bodied ray-finned fish from a Lower Triassic outcrop in northern Dobrogea ( Romania ), with anatomy interpreted as indicative of affinities with Polzbergiidae, and interpret the studied fossils as belonging to the earliest known large, specialized, durophagous neopterygian.
