Then as now, many animals adapted to desert conditions. Among the sand dunes here 80 million years ago were streams and seasonal shallow lakes where animals could drink. Plant eaters devoured the shrubs and small trees that grew at the water's edge, and meat eaters found abundant prey.

Scorpions are mainly moving around at night & like to get under the tent. We recommend to keep your boots in the tent during the night & put them on if you need to go outside. Scorpions will give you a nasty sting similar to a bad bee sting. The black scorpion is less venomous than the sandy coloured ones. They will not inflict a fatal sting unless you have an allergy to their poison or a serious heart condition. Suggest not to put fingers under bits of wood or stones. See similar questions...

Many of us desert humans follow a nine-to-five routine, a way of life that would be utterly impractical if it weren't for air conditioners and evaporative coolers. Other desert animals aren't constrained by our peculiar customs; they follow the dictates of the climate. If we want to meet them in their natural habitats we need to set our schedules by their biological clocks. Most desert birds have two main activity periods: a major peak in early morning and a minor one in the evening. See similar questions...

Several people have achieved that. The first cryonics organization to do so was Alcor, in the mid 1980's. For example, the Jan. 1986 issue of Cryonics magazine describes, in the article "Dixie's Rebirthday", a German Shepherd dog named Dixie who "experienced the privilege (and the peril) of having all her blood washed out and replaced with a synthetic solution and then being cooled to 4 C. See similar questions...

The Registry of Holocaust Survivors does not collect the names of those who perished during the Holocaust, but rather those who did survive. The Hall of Names at Yad Vashem in Israel records the names of family and friends who did not survive. Their forms, called Pages of Testimony, can be requested via mail or through their Web site. Two million Pages of Testimony have been digitized and are now available on-line as part of Yad Vashem's Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names. See similar questions...

The Special Collections Division at Thousand Oaks Public Library (in Thousand Oaks, California), has bound copies of many, if not all, of the ILAM scripts from the MBS run of the series.If you visit, you are certainly able to read these, along with other Morse materials (including scripts from some of his other shows).Unfortunately, you need permission from the Morse Estate to obtain copies of these, even for private and personal scholarship. See similar questions...

There was something there just about every night. They come and check you out. I would know they were there because the horse would stamp and snort. He wasn’t bothered by deer or elk, so I knew it was a bear or a coyote or mountain lion. My usual reaction was to talk to it in a really loud voice for a minute or so. Then they would usually wander away. By dawn, they would stop visiting and the horse could relax, eat and rest. Their presence basically became part of our routine. See similar questions...

Ted quotes Bill Anderson calculating odds against 1-celled life. As before, the odds calculations are invalid, in that they assume independence, and the need for a specific outcome instead of only a viable one. See similar questions...

One of the most popular misconceptions about ancient Egyptians is that they worshiped animals such as cats, dogs, and birds. Some animals, such as the Apis bull, may have been sacred, but the majority were not. Instead, as in many religions, animals symbolized certain gods and—just like figurines of animals in bronze, terracotta, faience, or other materials—their mummies served as votive offerings to those gods. See similar questions...

Nearly all the animals in the exhibits were donated by Jimmie C. Rosenbruch and his family. Worldwide Government Wildlife Agencies administered licenses and permits to obtain the nearly 300 species collected over a lifetime. The collection is appraised at over four-million dollars. The majority of this went to wildlife management for habitat protection, anti-poaching, and other efforts to preserve wildlife populations. No animals were collected specifically for this museum. See similar questions...

Asphalt is very sticky, particularly when it is warm. The warm temperatures from late spring to early fall would have provided the optimum conditions for entrapment in asphalt. Small mammals, birds and insects inadvertently coming into contact with it would be immobilized as if they were trapped by flypaper. The feet and legs of heavier animals might sink two or three inches below its surface. See similar questions...

Most likely, yes. The Desert Spring humidifier was specifically designed to be a simple replacement for most existing drum and flow-through humidifiers. In the event that the duct openings are slightly different in size, it should be easy to cut a larger hole or to cover the extra space with a small piece of sheet metal. Yes, absolutely! However, installation on fiber-board duct will require additional means of support to carry the full weight of the unit when it is full of water. See similar questions...

The Desert Locust is one of about a dozen species of short-horned grasshoppers (Acridoidea) that are known to change their behavior and form swarms of adults or bands of hoppers (wingless nymphs). The swarms that form can be dense and highly mobile. The Latin name for Desert Locust is Schistocerca gregaria (Forskal). See similar questions...

When the remains of the bodies were recovered, it was discovered that two bodies were missing - Tsarevich Alexei and one of the two younger daughters. American forensic experts felt Anastasia was missing and Russian forensic experts felt Maria was missing. In 1998, when the family was buried, all indications were that it was Maria who was missing. See similar questions...

The Holocaust Global Registry is not meant for listing victims. Its purpose is to help reunite living survivors with loved ones. If members of your family did not survive the Holocaust, please contact Yad Vashem - The Hall of Names and request they send you a "Page of Testimony". You should fill out one Page for each member of your family who did not survive. See similar questions...

This has to be one of the most talked about puzzles. In George Lucas's words: "...except he gets killed, but all the comic book makers said 'no we gotta bring him back!'" We here at the Boba Fett Multimedia Page believe he did not die, think about it: He fell into the Sarlacc conscious (remember the scream?), and most of his weapons can be controlled from his helmet by a few switches, so he could have blown himself out! See similar questions...

The movie offers an explanation for this, albeit an incorrect one, as mentioned in the Goofs section. It is said that Antarctica (including Bouvet Island, although this is not part of Antarctica as suggested in the movie) used to be free of ice, making it habitable. However, this was several million years ago, before humans ever evolved. There is another possible explanation for this, however. As seen in the movie, the pyramid is located in a cave under the ice. See similar questions...

You're good. Answers, answers, answers: yes, no, Studio Z was thoroughly raided and none of the confiscated tapes were returned. Studebaker wrote: There's a whole cd of Cucamonga-era Zappa tracks, but it wasn't released on Ryko or Barking Pumpkin records. I think it's called 'Rare Meat', but I don't have it myself. Perhaps someone else knows more about this release... AAAFNRA responded: I know, I've got the CD. See similar questions...

While we will do everything we can to save each of our patients, we know that many will not survive. This does not mean we have failed- we learn as much as we can from every case so that we can apply that knowledge to future cases. A full necropsy will be performed to find out why the animal died, what treatments worked, which ones did not, and what we might try in the future. See similar questions...

Yay. I made a translator! Or two! And I uploaded them! **fiddles around, realizes someone has switched the period and exclamation point keys on his keyboard** Check it out at my random online stuff site. Anybody seen QoC lately? I haven't heard from her for a week, now...by email, phone, or RPG... -- Tim, 22:29:57 06/30/03 Mon Me pretty Matrix RPG is done. Well, technically it's not *done*--is any RPG ever 'done'?--but the boards you need are there. I wish I coulda gone to Surf Camp. See similar questions...