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<br />Placoderms are extinct paleozoic (Upper Silurian – Upper Devonian) vertebrates which inhabited oceans and fresh-water. They were characterized by the presence of articulated dermal plates covering their head and the front part of the thorax. While the plates consisted of true bone, the internal skeleton was most probably cartilaginous, sometimes with calcified parts. The placoderms had no true teeth – only ornamented dermal plates instead. The size span of placoderms was variable. The average length of their body was several tens of centimeters, but the largest could measure six meters in length or more.</div>
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<br />There are two main groups of placoderms - Antiarchi and Arthrodira. Antiarchi were usually small (about 1 m long) and quite specialized. They lived mostly in freshwater environments and often possessed long limbs covered with small dermal plates which probably served for holding their body up straight in the substrate. A typical representative of Antiarchi is the Middle to Upper Devonian genus <i>Bothriolepis</i>. Arthrodira were placoderms of variable size from very tiny ones to the largest ever. These placoderms lived in the oceans and some of them could be active swimmers and even dangerous predators. Among the well-known representatives of the group is the genus <i>Coccosteus</i>.</div>
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<br />In general, placoderms lived at the bottom or swam close above it. Only some of them could have been good swimmers. The bottom dwelling placoderms were most likely scavengers or fed on different kinds of animals such as mollusks or trilobites. One of the largest placoderms ever, <i>Dunkleosteus</i>, was certainly among the top predators in the Devonian seas.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Coccosteus </i>(top left) and <i>Bothriolepis</i> (bottom right) from <a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40567380#page/69/mode/1up" target="_blank">BHL</a>.</td></tr>
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<br />Placoderms were very successful during the Devonian period (ca. 420 – 360 Ma), but later they were replaced by more successful cartilaginous and bony fishes. This was probably the reason why they became extinct. Stay tuned!<br />OpenUp!http://www.blogger.com/profile/07893206712900696021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174089602023072422.post-60353016140954985492014-01-20T16:09:00.002+01:002014-01-20T16:09:41.989+01:00Content Highlights - Indian Cobra (Naja naja)<div style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Did you know that the poison of the Indian Cobra is used in research, and for manufacturing analgesics and anti-cancer medications?</i></div>
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The Indian Cobra is a poisonous snake occupying large areas of the Middle East, from India through China and Indonesia. Indian natives call it nag, naga, pambo, gokhura or nagara havu. The snake is typically over one meter long, with a hood over its neck vertebrae which it inflates when threatened. Its body is variously colored, from creamy white through brown and all the way to black. Sometimes, the Cobra has a typical half-ring patterns on the back of its neck.</div>
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Indian cobra lives anywhere it can find suitable shelter, even in areas occupied by humans. Cobras do not normally attack humans when not threatened, except during mating season. When meeting a cobra, the best strategy is to remain calm, since cobras react aggressively to rapid movements. The cobra's poison, similarly to that of other rat snakes (genus Elaphe), has primarily neurotoxic effects.</div>
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See <a href="http://poisonousnature.biodiversityexhibition.com/en/card/indian-cobra" target="_blank">Poisonous Nature</a> for more information. Stay tuned!</div>
OpenUp!http://www.blogger.com/profile/07893206712900696021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174089602023072422.post-53607629852098394742014-01-09T10:43:00.000+01:002014-01-09T10:43:34.226+01:00Content Highlights - Silverfish (Lepisma saccharina)<div style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Did you know that silverfish belongs to an ancient order of insects (Zygentoma), which appeared on the Earth in the Carboniferous period (360-300 million years ago)? Or that silverfish do not need to drink, because they absorb water from moist air through a specially adapted anus?</i></div>
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<br />Silverfish are miniscule wingless insects, whose body is covered with silvery scales. They are mostly nocturnal, when they seek out humid areas (bathrooms, toilets, basements), or places where there is plenty of food and shelter (bakeries, pastry-shops). Don't worry, the presence of silverfish in your home does not indicate lack of cleanliness, but more likely abundant hiding places. In small numbers they are essentially harmless, but they can cause problems when they multiply.</div>
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<br />Silverfish avoid light and can often be spotted trying to hide in a corner after the lights are turned on in a room. They live on substances containing protein and saccharides, like paper, books, tapestries, cotton, leather, silk, flour, sugar, cereals and glue. Silverfish also live in nature, usually dwelling under rocks, fallen leaves, bark and such. They lay up the three eggs at a time in tiny cracks and can live up to six years.</div>
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<br />Learn more about silverfish on <a href="http://natureatyourhome.biodiversityexhibition.com/en" target="_blank">Nature at your Home</a>. Stay tuned!</div>
OpenUp!http://www.blogger.com/profile/07893206712900696021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174089602023072422.post-79127221941906692142013-12-31T17:39:00.002+01:002013-12-31T17:39:37.965+01:00Hudson's expedition<div style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Did you know that members of Henry Hudson's expedition were the first Europeans to have reached the famous Manhattan Island on September 12th, 1609? They met friendly Indian tribes Algonquin and Lenape.</i></div>
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In 1610, on the ship named Discovery, Henry Hudson set out on the fourth of his attempts to find the Northwest Passage. He sailed from the southern tip of Greenland to Labrador, and then turned to the north. He encountered a wide channel and assumed that this was the way to China. From that day on, the bay had been called Hudson's Bay. Then, he sailed into the bay, which he assumed to be part of the Pacific Ocean, then travelled further to the south into what is known today as James' Bay. </div>
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In June of 1611, he set out to continue the expedition. Several days after leaving the bay, his crew mutinied. They had had enough of exploring and wanted to go home. The captain refused to consider their demands. When the crew was unable to persuade him, they set him, his son John and seven crew members loyal to Hudson adrift in a small boat and left them to their fate in a stormy and freezing sea, with no prospects of rescue. Nothing further is known of their fate.</div>
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Locating the Northwest Passage eluded Henry Hudson, but his enthusiastic description of the area near the mouth of the Hudson River led to Dutch to colonize the area and found New Amsterdam, later New York. At the time of these discoveries, Henry was in the service of the Dutch.</div>
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Learn more about Hudson's expedition in <a href="http://expeditions.biodiversityexhibition.com/" target="_blank">Biodiversity Library Exhibition</a>. Stay tuned!</div>
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<a href="http://open-up.eu/" target="_blank">OpenUp! team</a>OpenUp!http://www.blogger.com/profile/07893206712900696021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174089602023072422.post-67877854576040843962013-11-25T15:10:00.000+01:002013-11-25T15:17:45.386+01:00Content Highlights - Monoplacophorans<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>In 1952, Danish expedition named Galathea caused sensation among zoologists, when it discovered deepwater mollusks of class Monoplacophora near the coast of Mexico. Previously, the group was assumed as extinct for hundreds of millions years. Monoplacophoras were widespread in the Paleozoic Era, especially in the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian Periods.</i></span></i></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Drahomira</i> - a monoplacophorans from the Silurian Period, showing paired muscle scars. Image is under CC BY of <a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=DATA_PROVIDER%3A%22N%C3%A1rodn%C3%AD+muzeum%22&start=3745&rows=96&qf=PROVIDER%3A%22OpenUp%21%22" target="_blank">Národní Muzeum</a>.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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ancient organisms belong to phylum Mollusca and (similarly to snails)
have a single shell composed of calcium carbonate. The shell is
bilaterally symmetrical and oriented with its tip forward. This was
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features of monoplacophorans include for example hint of body
segmentation, which is well reflected by the arrangement of paired
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Pragamira</i> - a Silurian monoplacophorans. Image is under CC BY of <a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=DATA_PROVIDER%3A%22N%C3%A1rodn%C3%AD+muzeum%22&start=3745&rows=96&qf=PROVIDER%3A%22OpenUp%21%22" target="_blank">Národní Muzeum</a>.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Paleozoic monoplacophorans were probably substrate feeders at the sea bottom, just like their living relatives. Some genera such as <i>Drahomira</i> from the Silurian Period could have lived as filter feeders at shells of dead nautiloid cephalopods. Unlike recent monoplacophorans, the Paleozoic ones inhabited mainly shallow and well-oxygenated water. Fossils of Paleozoic monoplacophorans are known from Central Europe, Scandinavia , China, United States and Russia.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;">Horný Radvan J. (2009): Patelliconus Horný, 1961 and Mytoconula gen. n. (Mollusca, Tergomya) from the Ordovician of Perunica. - <a href="http://www.nm.cz/publikace/archiv.php?id=4&rok=65&kcislu=1-2&f_=Zobrazit">http://www.nm.cz/publikace/archiv.php?id=4&rok=65&kcislu=1-2&f_=Zobrazit</a></span></span></span><br />
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<i></i>OpenUp!http://www.blogger.com/profile/07893206712900696021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174089602023072422.post-42195094709395391242013-10-31T18:14:00.000+01:002013-10-31T18:14:57.050+01:00The 5th OpenUp! Newsletter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We hope you enjoy the 5th OpenUp! newsletter. You can read the newsletter issue under this <a href="http://open-up.eu/node/1160" target="_blank">link</a>. Stay tuned!OpenUp!http://www.blogger.com/profile/07893206712900696021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174089602023072422.post-53373278756439820492013-10-07T10:04:00.002+02:002013-10-07T10:04:48.255+02:00Content Highlights - Catnip (Nepeta cataria)<b id="docs-internal-guid--d8f8e45-91da-88e6-7dd1-bf1500e336c9" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Nepeta cataria</i> from <a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10459385#page/200/mode/2up" target="_blank">BHL</a>.</td></tr>
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OpenUp!http://www.blogger.com/profile/07893206712900696021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174089602023072422.post-13233725329575372852013-08-11T13:13:00.000+02:002013-08-11T13:13:39.229+02:00Joachim Barrande<div class="MsoNormal">
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France. During his studies at the École Polytechnique and École des Ponts et
chaussées he was interested in natural sciences. He went to lectures of Georges
Cuvier, Jean B. Lamarck, Alexander Brongniart and other great naturalists of that
time. After his graduation, Barrande worked as an engineer and designed, for
instance, a bridge over the Loire River. Then he became the tutor of Henry,
Count of Chambord, the grandson of King Charles X. Bourbon. Unfortunately,
after political changes in 1830, the Bourbons were expelled from France.
Barrande left together with the Bourbons to settle in Edinburgh for a short
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cephalopods from Barrande's "<a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/14776#/summary" target="_blank">Systême silurien</a>..."</td></tr>
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arriving to Prague, Barrande met some of the main Czech literates such as
František Palacký or Count Kaspar Sternberg (Sternberg was one of the founders
of the National Museum and a great palaeobotanist). Sternberg suggested Barrande
to take charge of the upcoming construction of the railroad from Křivoklát to
the Radnice. During exploration work Barrande discovered, to his surprise, that
rocks all around contain excellently preserved fossils. The project of the
railroad was eventually cancelled and Barrande became the administrator of the estate
of Henry of Chambord. Because he had a lot of free time, Barrande undertook
paleontological excursions around Prague where he collected fossils. In
collecting, he was assisted by amateur collectors, often workers from quarries,
which Barrande paid.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brachiopods from Barrande's "<a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/14776#/summary" target="_blank">Systême silurien</a>..."</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In 1843 Barrande
invited a Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Murchison to visit Bohemia. Murchison
confirmed that all fossils are of Silurian age (Cambrian to Devonian in today's
concept). After Murchinson´s pattern, Barrande decided to write a treatise
about Silurian fossils of Central Bohemia. The first volume of the "Systême
silurien du centre de la Bohême" was published in 1852. In his life Barrande
published 22 volumes, which make almost 6000 pages and over 1000 lithographic
plates in total. More than 3550 species of Paleozoic organisms (trilobites,
crustaceans, cephalopods, bivalves, brachiopods and others) were described and
illustrated. Owing to Barrande’s technical education all descriptions and
illustrations of the fossils were very precise. That is one of the reasons why
his work is unique even for today´s standards. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See Barrande's material from National Museum, Prague in <a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?start=1&query=DATA_PROVIDER%3A%22N%C3%A1rodn%C3%AD+muzeum%22&rows=96&qf=PROVIDER%3A%22OpenUp%21%22" target="_blank">Europeana</a>.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In 1883 Barrande
went to Frohsdorf in Vienna, where he found his former ward of Henry of
Chambord on his deathbed. A few hours after his arrival, however, Henry died. Barrande
took care of Chambord’s testament. He unfortunately fell ill with pneumonia during
the work and died on October 5<sup>th</sup> 1883 at the age of 84. Barrande
dedicated his huge collection, library, field notes, and 10,000 Guldens to the
National Museum. The region between Pilsen and Prague has been named after Barrande,
as well as the Prague city district of Barrandov, etc.</span></div>
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OpenUp!http://www.blogger.com/profile/07893206712900696021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174089602023072422.post-67478885562736466732013-08-07T15:34:00.000+02:002013-08-07T15:34:35.901+02:00Delicacy and danger from the woods<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">In many countries in Europe and elsewhere around the world, mushroom collecting is a popular activity especially during summer and autumn. Mushrooms are an ingredience to our meals, although many of them are known to be dangerously poisonous to humans. But did you know that there are animals which are able to resist the poison? Or that collecting mushrooms dates back to the middle-ages when the mushrooms were called “meat of the poor ones”?</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scaly Tooth<i> </i>(<i>Sarcodon imbricatus</i>), edible - image is under CC BY-NC-SA of <a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?start=1&query=DATA_PROVIDER%3A%22Danish+Mycological+Society%22&rows=96&qf=PROVIDER%3A%22OpenUp%21%22" target="_blank">Danish Mycological Society</a>.</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For humans, mushrooms are important in medicine (e.g. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Penicillium</i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), as model organisms, are used as drugs (e.g. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Psilocybe bohemica</i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) and in gastronomy (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Boletus</i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Agaricus</i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). For example, about 3 000 of large mushroom species occur in Middle Europe, 400 of which are poisonous (e.g. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Amanita muscaria</i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) and 10 can even cause death (e.g. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Amanita phalloides</i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Entoloma sinuatum</i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">).</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lacrymaria pyrotricha, edible - image is under CC BY-NC-SA of <a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?start=3745&query=DATA_PROVIDER%3A%22Natural+History+Museum+of+Denmark%22&rows=96&qf=PROVIDER%3A%22OpenUp%21%22" target="_blank">Natural History Museum of Denmark</a>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yellow Morel (<i>Morchella esculenta</i>), edible - image is under CC BY-NC-SA of <a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?start=1&query=DATA_PROVIDER%3A%22Danish+Mycological+Society%22&rows=96&qf=PROVIDER%3A%22OpenUp%21%22" target="_blank">Danish Mycological Society</a>.</td></tr>
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OpenUp!http://www.blogger.com/profile/07893206712900696021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174089602023072422.post-8887821567280068212013-07-20T12:29:00.000+02:002013-07-22T15:53:24.191+02:00Gregor Johann Mendel - born July 20th 1822<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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Johann Mendel was born on July 20th in a small village of Hynčice (now part of
Czech city of Vražné).</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: CS;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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childhood he was interested in nature and even studied beekeeping. At the age
of 18, Mendel started his studies of philosophy and physics at the University
of Olomouc. Later, he trained as a priest and took over the name Gregor. At
that time, Mendel published several works on meteorology and founded the
Austrian Meteorological Society in 1865. He also spent several years at the
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of St. Thomas in Brno. There, he started his research and experiments on plant
hybridisation and also bred bees. To conduct the research, Mendel cultivated
and bred thousands of pea plants and experimented also with bees. As a result
of his experiments, Mendel formulated basic principles of inheritance, today
known as Mendel´s Laws of Inheritance. However, the importance of Mendel's
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pea (<i>Pisum sativum</i>) - image is under CC BY-NC of <a href="http://elmer.rbge.org.uk/bgbase/vherb/bgbasevherb.php?cfg=bgbase/vherb/bgbasevherb.cfg&specimens_barcode=E00162328" target="_blank">Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh</a>.</td></tr>
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period, the first assemblage of multicellular organisms with hard skeletal
parts appeared. In the Lower Cambrian rocks, paleontologists all over the world
have discovered minute shells and sclerites which are together called “small
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of animals. This fauna appeared in fact just before the beginning of the
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familiar, for instance <i>Aldanella</i>,
which clearly is a mollusk. Others look strange and could represent fragments
of larger organisms like sponges, velvet worms related animals, brachiopods,
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small </span>shelly<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> fauna are usually composed of calcium phosphate, calcium carbonate
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OpenUp!http://www.blogger.com/profile/07893206712900696021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174089602023072422.post-91889855422468161432013-06-17T13:28:00.000+02:002013-07-05T18:21:57.946+02:00Content Highlights - Auroch (Bos primigenius)<i>Did you know that the auroch is the predeccessor of present domestic cow and that the last auroch died in 1627 in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland?</i><br />
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Auroch was a large, even-toed ungulate (Artiodactyla) herbivore with short black hair and gray or yellowish stripe across the back in males and reddish-brown hair in females. The animal grew up to 2 m of height and 800-1000 kg in weight. Aurochs were pressumablly bound to swamps and swamp forests, such as river valleys, river deltas, and bogs, but they might have also lived in drier forests and perhaps in open grasslands. The animals lived in herds and has social behaviour similar to present domestic cattles.<br />
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As evidenced from fossil remains and other proofs (painting in caves, artefacts), <i>Bos primigenius</i> first appeared in India 2 million years ago and was first domesticated there as early as 9 thousand years ago. From India, <i>Bos primigenius</i> migrated into the Middle East and reached Europe about 270 thousand years ago. In Europe, the animal was among the largest post-glacial herbivores and went domesticated about 6 000 years ago. In a summary, <i>Bos primigenius</i> originally inhibited most of Europe, Northern Africa, middle East, central Asia and India being a common prey of humans as early as in the Paleolite. Hunting finally led to its extinction in the 17th century. Only the Eurasian subspecies (<i>Bos primigenius primigenius</i>) managed to survive until now and is at present distributed worldwide under domestication. From the original species, it differs in smaller size and weight, colour and usually shorter horns. Since the beginning of the 20th century, attemps have been made to breed the original auchor back from the domectic cattles and thus return it back to the wild after 400 years.OpenUp!http://www.blogger.com/profile/07893206712900696021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174089602023072422.post-39487142080550014252013-06-03T11:05:00.001+02:002013-06-03T11:05:51.953+02:00Content Highlights - Houseleek (Sempervivum)<div class="MsoNormal">
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lightning and fires? Indeed, it could create a fire-resistant layer on the
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Houseleeks
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Caucasian mountains. They occupy hilly to mountainous terrain in these areas.
They are succulents - plants adapted to growth in places with little water.
They prefer rocky outcrops and rock steppes. They are very undemanding, both
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Houseleek
juice is rich in nutrients, has disinfectant properties and is an
anti-inflammatory. Similarly to aloe vera, houseleeks are very effective in
treating burns, scaldings, frostbite and sunburn. They reduce pain from insect
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OpenUp!http://www.blogger.com/profile/07893206712900696021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174089602023072422.post-74094253586996530322013-05-20T15:23:00.000+02:002013-05-20T15:23:33.782+02:00Content Highlights - May Bug (Melolontha melolontha) <i>Did you know that the May Bug is related to Scarabaeus, the sacred
beetle of the ancient Egypt? Or that the beetle is used in gastronomy?</i><br />
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Once an abundant beetle in temperate Europe, Northern Asia and continental USA, the May Bug is nowadays quite a rare visitor to our gardens. However, after pesticide controls were implemented in last decades, its numbers have started to grow again.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Melolontha melolontha</i> from <a href="http://eol.org/pages/2924496/overview" target="_blank">EoL</a> - image is under CC BY-NC.</td></tr>
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The May Bug is 20 - 30 mm long beetle belonging to family Scarabaeidae. Female beetles lay 15-30 eggs three times during late spring. The larvae hatch after 4-6 weeks. They live in the soil feeding on roots of grasses and cereals and might be serious pests.<br />
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The larvae live for about 3-4 years. Pupate adult beetles stay hidden underground hibernating over winter and then fly out collectively. This corresponds to the development of the larvae and thus, adult beetles appear every 3-4 years in large numbers. This happens usually in April or May, which is where the name "May Bug" came from. The adult beetles feed on leaves and flowers of deciduous trees, plants and shrubs but do not tend to be serious pests. They are most likely to be seen in the evenings, often crashing into windows after being atracted by artifical light of human buildings. The beetle produces an alarming loud buzzing noise as it flies, but it is harmless to humans.<br />
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The genus <i>Melolontha</i> is also known to palaeontologists as it has been found fosilised. Pictured is a specimen of the Miocene age from the collection of the <a href="http://www.nm.cz/index.php?xSET=lang&xLANG=2" target="_blank">National Museum, Prague</a>.OpenUp!http://www.blogger.com/profile/07893206712900696021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174089602023072422.post-12080293852794246022013-05-13T10:49:00.002+02:002013-05-13T10:49:55.935+02:00Content Highlights - House Mouse (Mus musculus)<br />
<i>Meet the house mouse, a mammal that is not only a pest but also a model organism. Did you know that male mice can produce ultrasound whistles, by which they react to female pheromones?</i><br />
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Mice are small rodents, active primarily at night. They have very sensitive hearing, sense of smell and sight. They eat almost everything they come across, food scraps, various insects, grain and even soap. Mice are found in nature as well as human dwellings, and move often. Besides the damage to food stocks, mice are unpleasant in that they leave their urine and droppings everywhere. They are also dangerous carriers of disease and parasites.<br />
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Listen mice sounds at <a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=Mus%20musculus&qf=PROVIDER:OpenUp!&rows=24" target="_blank">Europeana</a>, these items are under CC BY-NC-ND of Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.</div>
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Mice build nests under floors or in attics, and line them with paper, rags, leaves and similar materials. They breed very quickly; females can have up to twelve young, five to ten times per year. Gestation is approximately 20 days. The young are ready to leave the nest in another 20 days, and become sexually mature within their first year. In captivity they can live up to four years. They have many natural predators, like carnivores, snakes and birds.<br />
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Meet more animals which live in human dwellings at <a href="http://www.biodiversityexhibition.com/" target="_blank">Biodiversity Library Exhibition</a> topic called "<a href="http://natureatyourhome.biodiversityexhibition.com/en" target="_blank">Nature at your home</a>". Stay tuned!<br />
OpenUp!http://www.blogger.com/profile/07893206712900696021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174089602023072422.post-77240237982784955962013-05-03T17:03:00.000+02:002013-05-06T14:49:21.506+02:00New Biodiversity Library Exhibition topic – Nature at your home<br />
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species of plants or animals, that have learnt to exploit the benefits of
living close to human settlements. You can find them in your garden, as well as
directly within your house or flat, sometimes being much closer than you have ever thought. Our new topic, however, also shows that
these organisms are also fascinating creatures of the nature. Have you, for
example, known that <a href="http://natureatyourhome.biodiversityexhibition.com/en/card/oriental-cockroach" target="_blank">Oriental Cockroach (<i>Blatta orientalis</i>)</a> is able to survive several weeks without its head until
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OpenUp!http://www.blogger.com/profile/07893206712900696021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174089602023072422.post-51986624595745176142013-04-30T13:17:00.000+02:002013-06-20T11:24:01.489+02:00Second OpenUp! Annual Meeting 2013 Prague<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Project Assembly meeting took place on the second day, bringing interesting overviews of project progress and presentations by several invited speakers. We particularly thank four special guests who were asked to address the conference: Katja Schulz (Encyclopedia of Life, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC), who presented past, present and future visions of the <a href="http://eol.org/" target="_blank">Encyclopedia of Life</a>; Geer Oskam (Europeana) introducing aims, efforts and impact of open data provided by <a href="http://europeana.eu/" target="_blank">Europeana</a>; William Ulate Rodrigues (Biodiversity Heritage Library, Center for Biodiversity Informatics, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis MO) who spoke on behalf of the Global <a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/" target="_blank">Biodiversity Heritage Library</a> (BHL) US/UK and <a href="http://www.bhl-europe.eu/" target="_blank">BHL-Europe</a>; and Vishwas Chavan (<a href="http://www.gbif.org/" target="_blank">GBIF</a> Secretariat, Copenhagen), who expressed his views on the changing paradigm in biodiversity data publishing.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">After the presentations were over, the <a href="http://open-up.eu/" target="_blank">OpenUp!</a> Tutorial and Outreach workshop took place being moderated by Jiří Frank (National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic) and Boris Jacob (MRAC, Belgium). During the event, the possibilities and benefits of becoming a content provider were stressed. Important information on providing content to Europeana through <a href="http://open-up.eu/" target="_blank">OpenUp!</a> was presented, and the role of the Helpdesk was highlighted. Later in the afternoon, a short meeting of the ODG took place again, mainly discussing a new outreach strategy and usage of different dissemination approaches.<br /><br />On the final day of the conference, the Review meeting by EU Evaluation Panel & Steering Committee took place. The reviewers had no major points of criticism and only a few recommendations, which we will implement during the project's final year.<br /><br />Presentations given during the conference, as well as abstracts, more photos and other information concerning the event will soon be available at our <a href="http://open-up.eu/" target="_blank">project website</a>, stay tuned!</span></div>
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OpenUp!http://www.blogger.com/profile/07893206712900696021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174089602023072422.post-16870263818898434532013-04-22T13:30:00.001+02:002013-04-22T13:30:38.652+02:00The 4th OpenUp! Newsletter<br />
We are glad to inform you that the new OpenUp! newsletter has recently been published at our new project website. You can read the last newsletter issue under this <a href="http://open-up.eu/node/1049" target="_blank">link</a>. The 4th newsletter issue is full of interesting articles concerning different domains and topics.<br />
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If you are interested in becoming one of the OpenUp! partners or in what the benefits of membership are, you need to see the article of "A quick guide for becoming an associated partner of the OpenUp!". We have also published several interesting news from our related projects, such as <a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/" target="_blank">Europeana</a>, <a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/" target="_blank">BHL</a>, <a href="http://www.bhl-europe.eu/" target="_blank">BHL-Europe</a> and Europeana creative. For the technically-skilled audience, articles on the new BioCASe version release and the implementation of common names web-services for the OpenUp! Content could be useful.<br />
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As we mentioned at the begining, the OpenUp! project has launched a new project website. The website´s description is also included in the new newsletter. For those who are interested in nature at your surroundings, we have prepared news on a new <a href="http://www.biodiversityexhibition.com/" target="_blank">BLE</a> topic of “Nature at your home”, which will be published at the beginning of next week.<br />
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Traditionally, we point out to our progress in social media and interesting conferences and events and one of them is presented directly by one of our content providers, Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands.<br />
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in the northern hemisphere. However, did you know that food prepared with a
death cap is extremely tasty?</span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Amanita phalloides</i>; this image is under CC-BY-NC-SA of Danish Mycological Society in <a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/11615/65258181E07DE649036EA3C07BA8A1A15185B873.html?start=4&query=Amanita+phalloides&startPage=1&rows=24" target="_blank">Europeana</a></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The death cap is
medium sized mushroom, with cap 7-15 cm in diameter. It grows throughout the
entire temperate zone of Europe, Asia and North Africa. It was carried
(probably with tree seedlings) to North America and Australia. This mushroom
grows from summer through fall in deciduous or mixed forests. The death cap is
responsible for most mushroom poisonings, and even small doses can be very
dangerous. Resistance to the poison varies among individuals, so specifying a
fatal dose is difficult. The poison - amanitin, damages the liver and kidneys.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Amanita phalloides</i> by František Šaržík from <a href="http://eol.org/pages/1009706/overview" target="_blank">EOL</a></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Initial symptoms
occur 8 to 48 hours after ingestion. In this phase, the person experiences
fatigue, stomach nausea, dizziness, headaches and feelings of cold, even
freezing. The nausea intensifies, stomach aches occur, accompanied by strong
retching and watery diarrhea, leading to dehydration, and eventual circulatory
failure. This is usually the immediate cause of death in children. If the
patient survives this phase, his condition appears to improve (usually the fourth
day after ingestion). In the second phase, the kidneys fail, and sometimes the
liver as well. Death usually occurs four to twelve days after ingestion.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Amantia</i> from <a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3270805#page/96/mode/2up" target="_blank">BHL</a></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">You can find
more about death cap on <a href="http://poisonousnature.biodiversityexhibition.com/en/card/death-cap" target="_blank">BLE – Poisonous nature</a>. Stay tuned to us!</span></div>
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<![endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Look at one of the most poisonous plants in Europe -
deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna). Did you know that in the early and
middle ages, women of all ages rubbed belladonna juice into their eyes to make
them large and beautiful, from which also comes the species name of the plant
(bella donna = beautiful woman)?</span></i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Atropa belladonna</i> from <a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?start=37&query=Atropa%20belladonna" target="_blank">Europeana</a> (image is under CC-BY-SA, from Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichen Landesmuseen)</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Deadly
nightshade is massive 50-180 cm tall shrub with dark purple bell-shaped
flowers. The pods are shiny black berries the size of a cherry. Nightshade grows
in well-lit forests all over Europe, diminishing northwards. This plant belongs
to the Solenaceae family, as do the potato and tomato. All parts of the plant
are poisonous, and contain tropane alkaloids.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://open-up.eu/" target="_blank">Oepn Up!</a> content of <i>Atropa belladonna</i> on <a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/11603/3853C1E8AAFA2C0C3BD9F18C9A7BA6ED7C6E986E.html?start=11&query=Atropa+belladonna&qf=PROVIDER:OpenUp!" target="_blank">Europeana</a></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Nightshade's
principal danger lies in that its berries are very pretty and look edible, have
a pleasantly sweet taste, and are at eye level for children, to whom they look
like overripe cherries. Two to four berries are a fatal dose for a child, an
adult needs ten to twenty. The most poisonous part of the plant is the root,
but the consumption of even a single leaf can be fatal for an adult. Symptoms
are initially a red face, dry mouth, dilated pupils and quickened pulse; in
later stages, heart arrhythmia, tremors, hallucinations, paranoia and cramping.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Atropa belladonna</i> from <a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11396669#page/266/mode/2up" target="_blank">BHL</a></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This plant is
widely used in medicine. Nightshade is an ingredient in atropine drops, used in
ophthalmology, because atropine dilates the pupils. Extract from nightshade
leaves is also used in analgesics to counteract cramps of smooth muscle tissue
(antispasmodic). For more information see <a href="http://poisonousnature.biodiversityexhibition.com/en/card/deadly-nightshade" target="_blank">BLE Poisonous Nature</a>. Stay tuned!</span></div>
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we dedicate a short piece to one of the largest mammals from the last Ice Age –
the woolly mammoth (<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mammuthus primigenius</span>).</span></i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The mandible of woolly mammoth from <a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/11617/EE31B929146E73B25C934A06E530E3A43D9594E4.html?start=21&query=europeana_dataProvider%3A%22Museum+of+Geology%2C+University+of+Tartu%22&startPage=13" target="_blank">Europeana</a></td></tr>
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grassland areas of Eurasia and North America. This mammal, closely related to today’s
Indian elephant, grew to 4.5 m and could weigh up to 4000 kg. It fed mainly on different
sorts of grass. The hair of <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mammuthus
primigenius</span></i> was up to 60 cm long and its color ranged from tawny through
brown to black. In addition to bones, scientists have recovered much
information about <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mammuthus primigenius</span>
</i>from frozen specimens in Siberian permafrost.</span></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></i><br />
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<![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">As a matter of fact, it is not true that all
Woolly Mammoths were large animals. The dwarf subspecies of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mammuthus primigenius</i> grew only to 1.8 m
in height. This small chap occupied Wrangel Island from approximately 10,000 to
2,000 years BC! So these dwarf mammoths lived during the times of building the Egyptian
pyramids.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZpE0p1JXRjldeuCw9qGwMQO5N306qbwpCmPmlDmpEPD3os7qgloarp6-CoK8-1kKxVi4y4dFSRzJjdIpgw24NoPk5PCVlR3B_0awTH65LPWJ_tJBHAziqIFQvJ8Kdv_LZXvjOvmNZCAM/s1600/mamut.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZpE0p1JXRjldeuCw9qGwMQO5N306qbwpCmPmlDmpEPD3os7qgloarp6-CoK8-1kKxVi4y4dFSRzJjdIpgw24NoPk5PCVlR3B_0awTH65LPWJ_tJBHAziqIFQvJ8Kdv_LZXvjOvmNZCAM/s400/mamut.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Collection of bones of woolly mammoths from <a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/11617/0DCCE1A7468C7EAF9E853FEFC0585D03230CFC4C.html?start=24&query=europeana_dataProvider%3A%22Museum+of+Geology%2C+University+of+Tartu%22&startPage=13" target="_blank">Europeana</a></td></tr>
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about woolly mammoths, including many images of <a href="http://open-up.eu/" target="_blank">OpenUp!</a> content. For example, the beautiful mandible (above)
is stored in the Museum of Geology, University of Tartu. It was collected in
1840 by Herr von Mierzerjewski in Poland, near Bug River. This sample measures 50x50
cm and weighs 16.6 kg.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The mammoth from <a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14836944#page/232/mode/2up" target="_blank">BHL</a></td></tr>
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you can find great collections on <a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/" target="_blank">Europeana</a> portal. Stay tuned!</span>OpenUp!http://www.blogger.com/profile/07893206712900696021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174089602023072422.post-44957744584070130182013-03-07T13:06:00.000+01:002013-03-07T13:06:47.071+01:00Content Highlight – Spanish fly (Lytta vesicatoria)<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><em>Our new Content Highlight is about beautiful,
but deadly beetle. Did you know that in the past powder from Spanish fly had
been used by women to abort pregnancy?</em></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo of <em>Lytta vesicatoria</em> by Stefanie Hamm from <a href="http://eol.org/pages/1220034/overview" target="_blank">EOL</a></td></tr>
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fly is a 2 cm long metallic green beetle of Meloidae family (Blister Beetles).
It can be found primarily in warm climates in Europe and Asia. This beetle
feeds on leaves of ash, privet and others deciduous trees. Spanish fly has a
very complicated development, going through several larval stages which
parasitize on solitary bees.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The
male of Spanish fly produces liquid which contains a strong poison cantharidin.
Cantharidin has a significant aphrodisiac effect, which is why it was used
during the Middle Ages as an ingredient in various love potions. Since antiquity,
powder from these beetles has been used by various poisoners.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Results for <em>Lytta vesicatoria</em> on <a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=Lytta%20vesicatoria" target="_blank">Europeana</a></td></tr>
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poison produced by the Spanish fly causes festering blisters on skin contact,
and contact with the eyes can even cause blindness. A deadly dose is only 30 milligrams.
Ingestion causes painful erection in men, bloody diarrhea and intestinal
problems. There have even been cases of damage to the heart, kidneys or nervous
system.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><em>Lytta</em> from <a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39725310#page/388/mode/2up" target="_blank">BHL</a></td></tr>
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aware of these poisonous creatures, see <a href="http://poisonousnature.biodiversityexhibition.com/en/card/spanish-fly" target="_blank">Poisonous Nature on BLE</a>.</span></span></div>
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prey. Polar bears mainly feed different species of seals but they also feed small
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<![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">If you are interested
in polar bears and other arctic animals, see <a href="http://expeditions.biodiversityexhibition.com/en/card/northwest-passage" target="_blank">Northwest Passage</a>, <a href="http://expeditions.biodiversityexhibition.com/en/card/northeast-passage" target="_blank">NortheastPassage</a> and <a href="http://expeditions.biodiversityexhibition.com/en/card/conquering-of-north-pole" target="_blank">Conquering of North pole</a> in <a href="http://expeditions.biodiversityexhibition.com/" target="_blank">BLE – Expeditions</a>.</span> Stay tuned!</span></div>
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