The Classroom Herald

  Hydra- is an aquatic creature and it is the only creature that can never die because its cells keep regenerating.                                          Coca-Cola was originally green because of its fresh cocoa leaves.                                                                                               . The bulletproof vest was actually invented by a pizza delivery guy from Detroit, USA after he was shot twice on the job.                        If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs of the horse in the air, the person died in battle.  ...

The Glass Frogs are an interesting species as the viscera of glass frogs can be seen, and the heart can be seen pumping blood into the arteries and food flowing through the intestines. The translucency of the frogs is a form of camouflage in which an animal's edge blends in with the relative brightness or darkness of its surroundings. The line separating the color of a frog's skin from the color of its backdrop is softened by this phenomenon known as edge diffusion. The underside of not all species is transparent. Most glass frogs seem bright green when seen from above. Their patterning resembles glass frog eggs and varies from a uniform green to green with white to yellow dots. Glass frogs have enlarged fingertips that help them climb, allowing them to reside in trees and bushes near forest streams. There are around 120 species of glass frogs in around ten genera (with most species classified in the genera Centrolene, Cochranella, and Hyalinobatrachium). From tropical lowland ...

Coconut crabs are generalist scavengers that  go after  fallen fruit, carrion, and (to ingest calcium) the shells of other crabs. The coconut crab  is understood  for its ability to use its massive pincers (chelae) to crack open coconuts.  the biggest  coconut crabs can exert a force  of three ,300 newtons (about 742 pound-force) with their pincers. Coconut crabs have also been known to open coconuts by dropping them from trees and striking them repeatedly with their pincers or using their pincers to pierce the coconut’s husk before splitting the seed open.  The female releases her ripe eggs  within the  sea,  and that they  immediately hatch as microscopic swimming zoaeas. This first larval stage, which lives  within the  water, feeds on small organisms. After 20 to 30 days the zoaea develops into glaucophane, the intermediate stage, and leaves the water  to measure   in an exceedingly  seashell  ...

A racing pigeon has endured a phenomenal 8,000-mile Pacific Ocean crossing from the United States to locate another home in Australia. Presently specialists consider the flying creature an isolated danger and plan to slaughter it. Kevin Celli-Bird said Thursday he found the depleted fowl that showed up in his Melbourne patio on December 26 had vanished from a race in the U.S. province of Oregon on Oct. 29. Specialists presume the pigeon that Celli-Bird has named Joe, after the U.S. president-elect, hitched a ride on a load boat to cross the Pacific. Joe's accomplishment has pulled in the consideration of the Australian media yet in addition to the famously exacting Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service. Celli-Bird said isolate specialists called him on Thursday to request that he get the winged creature. "They say in the event that it is from America, they're worried about winged animal infections," he said. "They needed to know whether I could take car...

  Monito Del Monte Scientific Name: Dromiciops Gliroides The “little mountain monkey” of S outh A merica is not a monkey, but instead, a marsupial thought to have arrived from A ustralia long ago. It’s tiny only about 5 inches full grown. They are nocturnal and carnivorous, and famous among scientists for their unusual tail, which can store enough fat to make them double in size. This allows them to go for long periods without food. Sadly the monito del monte is in danger of extinction. ...

  Two gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park have tested positive for COVID-19 , the zoo a nnou nced January 4. A third gorilla is symptomatic but did not test positive, and several others may also be infected, the zoo said. It is believed the gorillas may have been infected by an asymptomatic staff member.

Freddy, the tallest dog in the world unfortunately passed away on January 30th. He was 8 and a half years old when he passed away, which means he was about 60 human years. She was 3 feet 4 inches normally but standing she measured 7 feet 5 1/2 inches tall. This was declared a world record by Guinness World Record in 2016. "He was not just the tallest dog but the dog with the most love and the biggest heart. A total soppy bugger who was hand-fed," Freddy's owner, Claire Stoneman, told Guinness World Records.

  Every February 2nd, Phil the groundhog decides if Spring will come early or we will have a longer Winter. This year Phil chose that we will have a longer winter. According to tradition, if a groundhog comes out of its hole on this day and sees its shadow, it gets scared and runs back into its burrow, predicting six more weeks of winter weather ; no shadow means an early spring.

Zebra Scientific Name: Equus Quagg The zebra is most famous because of the black and white stripes. Every zebra has a different stripe pattern. The zebra is the family of the Equidae, which is also known as the horse family. It is very useful that the stripes are vertica l because then the zebra can hide in the grass easier. Some people think the stripes are there because the lion, the biggest enemies of the zebra, is colorblind and that the black and white stripes would confuse him. Zebras can see very well. People believe that they can see colors, which isn't the case with most other animals.

Flamingo:  Scientific Name:  Phoenicopterus Ruber     However, the behavior also takes place in warm water and is also observed in birds that do not typically stand in water. An alternative theory is that standing on one leg reduces the energy expenditure for producing muscular effort to stand and balance on one leg. A study on cadavers showed that the one-legged pose could be held without any muscle activity while living flamingos demonstrate substantially less body sway in a one-legged posture. As well as standing in the water, flamingos may stamp their webbed feet in the mud to stir up food from the bottom. A pair of African flamingos which had not yet had their wings clipped escaped from the Wichita, Kansas zoo in 2005. One was spotted in Texas 14 years later. It had been seen previously by birders in Texas, Wisconsin, and Louisiana. Young flamingos hatch with grayish-red plumage, but adults range from light pink to bright red due to aqueous bacteria and beta-ca...

  A tiger once ranged widely from the Eastern Anatolia Region in the west to the Amur River basin, and in the south from the foothills of the Himalayas to Bali in the Sunda islands. Since the early 20th century, tiger populations have lost at least 93% of their historic range and have been extirpated in Western and Central Asia, from the islands of Java and Bali, and in large areas of Southeast and South Asia and China. Today's tiger range is fragmented, stretching from Siberian temperate forests to subtropical and tropical forests on the Indian subcontinent and Sumatra.  

Mallocci's dog, Spelacchia, gave birth to four other dogs with white fur, the same color as hers. Spelacchia is mixed-breed, but that doesn't explain why one of her pups came out with green fur.

  The venerable Vermont said Monday that they will be introducing a new line of frozen dog treats. They will be sold in 4 oz. cups in grocery and pet stores. They come in 2 flavors pumpkin with cookies and pretzels with peanut butter.