Cute Little Beagles

http://www.queenelizabethpocketbeagles.com/

Garzilla

Interesting story in the Atlanta Journal Constitution (link here) about a guy who caught a big gar.

I liked the part where he shot it twice with a handgun.

Copperheads

Interesting article on Maryland copperhead snakes in Saturday's Washington Post (link here).

Frank Mundus, RIP

http://www.fmundus.com/

Web site of famed shark hunter Frank Mundus, who recently bit the big one.

Temnospondyl

The animal resembled a modern crocodile but was actually a temnospondyl, a prehistoric amphibian that was an early relative of salamanders and frogs. Because of their odd mixture of characteristics, members of this group are sometimes nicknamed "crocamanders" or "frogodiles."

- Discovery (link here)

Crurotarsans

At the end of the Triassic, around 200 million years ago, crurotarsans and dinosaurs were probably in competition for the same resources.

Compared with modern-day crocodiles, Triassic-era crurotarsans were surprisingly diverse. There were huge biped predators, and quadrupeds such as the Deinosuchus (meaning 'Terrible Crocodile') that ate herbivorous dinosaurs.

- Discovery (link here)

Very interesting article.

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