"of a field guide to dinosaurs found on the island, by Darren Naish and David Martill. Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight The Isle of Wight is one of the richest dinosaur localities in Europe, with over 20 species of dinosaur having been recognised from the early Cretaceous Period (in particular between 132 and 110 million years ago), some of which were first identified on the island, as well as the contemporary non-dinosaurian species of crocodile, turtle and pterosaur. Compton Bay, near Freshwater features dinosaur footprints which are visible at low tide. The Isle of Wight has layers of the"
"portrayals in the series ""Animal Magic""), which led many British viewers, unaware of the character's origins, to wrongly suppose that the cat had been named after Morris himself. British ads for 9Lives later featured the voice of Richard Briers. Morris the Cat Morris the Cat (voiced by John Erwin) is the advertising mascot for 9Lives brand cat food, appearing on its packaging and in many of its television commercials. A large orange tabby tomcat, he is ""the world's most finicky cat"", eating only 9Lives, and making this preference clear with humorously sardonic voice-over comments when offered other brands. Every can"
"Morris the Cat Morris the Cat (voiced by John Erwin) is the advertising mascot for 9Lives brand cat food, appearing on its packaging and in many of its television commercials. A large orange tabby tomcat, he is ""the world's most finicky cat"", eating only 9Lives, and making this preference clear with humorously sardonic voice-over comments when offered other brands. Every can of 9Lives features Morris' ""signature"". Three different cats have played Morris the Cat. The original Morris was discovered in 1968, at the Hinsdale Humane Society, a Chicago-area animal shelter, by professional animal handler Bob Martwick. That Morris died in"
"were a dog called Spot, a Dalmatian, a black Labrador retriever and a horse called Archie, which can be found in three colours: white with black spots, brown and a palomino. Every year a new fashion booklet was issued, showing any new Daisy dolls, and all her latest fashions for that year. Each booklet had a theme; the first, in 1973, being called ""My Fashion Diary"", telling all about Daisy's year and the various outfits she wears each month for various occasions. The 1974 booklet is called ""My Round the World Holiday"", in which Daisy travels the world, showing off"
"9Lives 9Lives is the name of a brand of cat food, owned by Big Heart Pet Brands and introduced to the market in 1959. It is best known for its mascot, Morris. 9Lives has four varieties of dry food (Daily Essentials, Plus Care, Indoor Complete and Long Life Formula), and five lines of wet food in various flavors. The company also promotes adoption of cats from animal shelters. In 2006, 9Lives kicked off the inaugural tour of Morris' Million Cat Rescue, a nationwide bus tour to encourage local cat adoption. The company has recently added a new cat to their"
"Queen Elizabeth. In the anime ""Cowboy Bebop"", the crew has a super-intelligent Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Ein, on their ship. The ""Top Shelf"" graphic novel ""Korgi"" plays on the folklore tradition of the Corgi as a faerie draft animal. It features the ""Mollies"" (fairy-like beings) who live in close relationship with the land and their Korgi friends, who are based on and resemble the Welsh Corgi breeds. Welsh Corgi The Welsh Corgi, sometimes known as just a Corgi (, Welsh for ""dwarf dog""; plural ""Corgis"" or occasionally the etymologically consistent ""Corgwn""; ), is a small type of herding dog that originated"
"name. The Yorkshire terrier ""Irina de Pittacus"" was born a puppy in Jockgrim to the male ""Drakula"" in the care of breeder Christel Nicklis. At the age of four months, Moshammer purchased the animal and gave it the name ""Daisy"". In the arm of the designer, always with a ribbon on her head, Daisy became a trademark of the extravagant designer and was often seen in the German media. Moshammer devoted a book and a website to Daisy. She was also the namesake for a line of grooming products for dogs launched by Moshammer. In addition the designer developed a"
"without biological basis, explaining sightings as hoaxes, wishful thinking, and the misidentification of mundane objects. The creature has been affectionately called Nessie () since the 1940s. The word ""monster"" was reportedly applied for the first time to the creature on 2 May 1933 by Alex Campbell, water bailiff for Loch Ness and a part-time journalist, in an ""Inverness Courier"" report. On 4 August 1933 the ""Courier"" published a report by Londoner George Spicer that several weeks earlier, while they were driving around the loch, he and his wife saw ""the nearest approach to a dragon or pre-historic animal that I"
"dry food ""worth riskin' your life for."" (Sylvester never appeared in commercials for 9Lives canned cat food and was eventually replaced by Morris for dry food commercials.) 9Lives 9Lives is the name of a brand of cat food, owned by Big Heart Pet Brands and introduced to the market in 1959. It is best known for its mascot, Morris. 9Lives has four varieties of dry food (Daily Essentials, Plus Care, Indoor Complete and Long Life Formula), and five lines of wet food in various flavors. The company also promotes adoption of cats from animal shelters. In 2006, 9Lives kicked off"
"long, shaped like a crocodile with four webbed feet and a powerful tail. Folklorists speculate that Cornish author Tony 'Doc' Shiels ""invented"" the creature as a hoax, having coined the name ""Morgawr"" after claiming to sight it in 1976. According to the story, Shiels sent the ""Falmouth Packet"" newspaper photographs of the monster attributed to an anonymous individual called ""Mary F"". The same year in July, fishermen John Cock and George Vinnicombe claimed to have sighted the creature in the waters off Lizard Point. Also in 1976, Shiels claimed to have photographed the creature lying low in the water near"
"a 2013 pick for their Best Books for Babies list. Cousins' character, Maisy, was featured on a postage stamp published by the U.S. Postal Service in their 2006 Favorite Children's Book Animals Series. Cousins won a Booktrust Best Book Award (BBA) in 2014 for ""Peck,Peck,Peck"". Lucy Cousins Elizabeth 'Lucy' Cousins (born 10 February 1964) is an English author and illustrator of children's books. She is best known for her books featuring Maisy Mouse, but she has also published other children's books, such as ""Jazzy in the Jungle"" (2002) and one about Noah's Ark. She lives in Hampshire, England. Cousins, whose"
"Mussie In Canadian folklore, Mussie is a creature said to live in Muskrat Lake in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is variously described, for example, as a walrus or as a three-eyed Loch Ness Monster-like creature. The legend of Mussie likely began around 1916, though legend claims that Canadian pioneer Samuel de Champlain wrote about it in the early seventeenth century. Despite the futility of numerous attempts to locate or capture Mussie, it has become a part of the local culture and a fixture in the local tourism industry. Mussie's name is a diminutive form of the name of"
"final book in the series, ""The Shepherd's Crown"", was released in 2015. While Terry Pratchett's first ""Discworld"" book for children, ""The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents"" had swearing translated to rat language, in this book it is in the dialect of the Nac Mac Feegle which is taken from Scots and Scottish Gaelic. An illustrated edition of the novel, with pictures by Stephen Player, appeared in print on 2 October 2008. Tiffany Aching is a 9-year-old girl who literally sees things differently than others. While playing near the river near her home, she sees two tiny blue, kilted men"
"welcome swallow, silver gull, little grassbird, rock parrot, osprey, Australian pelican, black cormorant, black-faced cormorant, willie wagtail, crested tern, common starling, and masked plover. While most of the bird species are reported as using the island as a roost, the Australian pelican also uses it as a breeding colony. As of 2006, only one species of reptile, the bull skink, has been observed. Jones Island is one of the islands off the west coast of Eyre Peninsula where native vegetation was cleared for “grazing by early pastoralists”. The island was named in 1908 after J.W. Jones who was a senior"
"Issie According to mythology, Issie was a white mare which had a little foal, and they lived together on the shore of Lake Ikeda. However, when the foal was kidnapped by a samurai, and Issie was unable to find it, she jumped into the lake, and her despair transformed her into a giant, saurian beast, which since then frequently surfaces, trying to find her lost child. The creature was reportedly photographed in 1978, by a man who went by the name ""Mr. Matsubara"". Twenty other people reportedly also saw the creature in 1978, which they described as black and having"
"Mordiford, Maud, who had desperately wanted a pet. While wandering the forest adjacent to her village one day, Maud had found a small bright creature with a snout and small, translucent wings prowling around a small group of flowers. Excited by the creature, the girl took it home to show to her parents. Immediately her mother and father realized it was a wyvern and commanded Maud to take it back to where she had found it because it would cause trouble in the village. The indignant Maud pretended to obey but instead hid the infant dragon in a safe place"
"that a single, very old Mussie—or a member of its species—first arrived in the area, then covered by the ocean, about 10,000 years ago. In this tale, glaciers and, later, solid landmasses built up around it, forming the lake, and Mussie was trapped. Mussie's diet, according to self-proclaimed observer Donnie Humphries, consists at least partially of cattails found near the edge of the lake. Descriptions of Mussie's physical appearance are inconsistent. In local folklore, it has variously been portrayed as akin to a walrus; a sturgeon or other fish; or a Loch Ness Monster with three eyes and sharper teeth."
"Cat sìth The Cat Sìth () or Cat Sidhe (, Cat Sí in new orthography) is a fairy creature from Celtic mythology, said to resemble a large black cat with a white spot on its chest. Legend has it that the spectral cat haunts the Scottish Highlands. The legends surrounding this creature are more common in Scottish folklore, but a few occur in Irish. Some common folklore suggested that the ""Cat Sìth"" was not a fairy, but a witch that could transform into a cat nine times. The Cat Sìth may have been inspired by the Scottish wildcat itself. It"
"Wyvern A wyvern ( , sometimes spelled wivern) is a legendary creature with a dragon's head and wings, a reptilian body, two legs, and a tail often ending in a diamond- or arrow-shaped tip. A sea-dwelling variant dubbed the sea-wyvern has a fish tail in place of a barbed dragon's tail. The wyvern in its various forms is important to heraldry, frequently appearing as a mascot of schools and athletic teams (chiefly in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada). It is a popular creature in European and British literature, video games, and modern fantasy. The wyvern in heraldry and"
"Beckjord, the Loch Ness monster (Nessie) was a space alien pet left on Earth in a form of energy that could interact with human beings. He described Nessie as a cat-like faced creature, 15–30 feet long, 7–10 feet thick with a body that ""looks like a cross between Halley's Comet and the Concorde jet."" He claimed to have videotaped three, which he named Faith, Hope and Charity, on a visit to Drumnadrochit, Scotland in 1983. Beckjord admitted that the images might not be ""exactly and positively"" Nessie, but asserted that ""90 percent of the people who have viewed the films"
"of primates including all four types of great ape, boasting the UK's only group of bonobo. Twycross Zoo has become known for breeding primates and has recorded first UK births for thirteen different species including the bonobo, siamang, agile gibbon and woolly monkey, contributing to numerous conservation breeding programmes. In 2000 Badham and Evans co-wrote ""Molly's Zoo"", a book telling the story of the zoo's history. Molly Badham was an expert in primates in captivity and highly regarded for her work with chimpanzees. Molly achieved many world firsts during her leadership, from breeding animals successfully through to being a founder"
"which has maintained throughout the games, with Daisy being depicted as a more cheerful and boastful character than Peach. In ""Mario"" sports games, she wears more athletic outfits instead of her usual gown, her color scheme normally being yellow and orange. Her special abilities are often based around flowers, with the daisy flower being her namesake. , Daisy has appeared in 73 games, in most of which she is a playable character. Her first appearance in the ""Mario"" series is in ""Super Mario Land"", released in 1989 for the Game Boy. Daisy is the princess of Sarasaland, a world outside"
"making them resemble a plesiosaur. On April 25, 1977, the Japanese trawler ""Zuiyō Maru"", sailing east of Christchurch, New Zealand, caught a strange, unknown creature in the trawl. The crew was convinced it was an unidentified animal, but despite the potential biological significance of the curious discovery, the captain, Akira Tanaka, decided to dump the carcass into the ocean again so not to risk spoiling the caught fish. However, before that, some photos and sketches were taken of the creature, nicknamed ""Nessie"" by the crew, measurements were taken and some samples of skeleton, skin and fins were collected for further"
"amphibians or plesiosaurs. Loch Ness Monster In Scottish folklore, the Loch Ness Monster or Nessie is a creature said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is often described as large in size with a long neck and one or more humps protruding from the water. Popular interest and belief in the creature has varied since it was brought to worldwide attention in 1933. Evidence of its existence is anecdotal, with a few disputed photographs and sonar readings. The creature commonly appears in Western media in a variety of ways. The scientific community regards the Loch Ness Monster"
"developed most of her Womble characters around members of her family, and named them after places the family had associations with. Wombles are essentially burrowing animals. They have retractable claws (like cats), but as they mostly live in long-established burrows, they rarely use these even for digging. Their size and physical appearance has changed somewhat over the years: in the original editions of the books, Wombles are pictured as bear-like and between 3 and 5 feet (about 1–1.5 metres) in height, making them only slightly smaller than adult humans. This changed with the TV series where they were portrayed as"
"Water horse A water horse (or ""waterhorse"" in some folklore) is a mythical creature, such as the Ceffyl Dŵr, Capaill Uisce, the bäckahäst and kelpie. The term ""water horse"" was originally a name given to the kelpie, a creature similar to the hippocamp, which has the head, neck and mane of a normal horse, legs like a horse, webbed feet, and a long, two-lobed, whale-like tail. The term has also been used as a nickname for lake monsters, particularly Ogopogo and Nessie. The name ""kelpie"" has often been a nickname for many other Scottish lake monsters, such as each uisge"
"The Ballad of Nessie The Ballad of Nessie is a 2011 traditionally animated short film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It was directed by Stevie Wermers-Skelton and Kevin Deters, and produced by the team behind ""How to Hook Up Your Home Theater"". The short, narrated by Billy Connolly, is a Disney adaptation of the origin of the Loch Ness Monster, Nessie. A creature named Nessie lives happily in a small pond with her friend MacQuack, a rubber duck. When a rich developer takes the pond and land surrounding it to build a miniature golf course, Nessie is forced to"
"the naturalist, zookeeper and author Gerald Durrell. Four species of small mammal are considered native: the wood mouse (""Apodemus sylvaticus""), the Jersey bank vole (""Myodes glareolus caesarius""), the Lesser white-toothed shrew (""Crocidura suaveolens"") and the French shrew (""Sorex coronatus""). Three wild mammals are well-established introductions: the rabbit (introduced in the mediaeval period), the red squirrel and the hedgehog (both introduced in the 19th century). The stoat (""Mustela erminea"") became extinct in Jersey between 1976 and 2000. The Green lizard (Lacerta bilineata) is a protected species of reptile; Jersey is its only habitat in the British Isles. The red-billed chough ""Pyrrhocorax"
"""Docksey"") is a small pond, measuring about , by the top path of The Roaches at grid reference . Legend has it that this pool is inhabited by a mermaid called Jenny Greenteeth known as the blue nymph. The legend says that she fell in the pool on a foggy day whilst walking along the top of the Roaches, and ever since has been enticing unsuspecting victims down to the pool and to their watery grave. The Winking Man Rock formation is part of the Ramshaw Rocks section of The Roaches. 'Winky' as it is also known can be seen"
"of Robert Clive. Harriet was a resident at the Australia Zoo in Queensland from 1987 to her death in 2006; she was believed to have been brought to England by Charles Darwin aboard the ""Beagle"" and then on to Australia by John Clements Wickham. Harriet died on June 23, 2006, just shy of her 176th birthday. Timothy, a spur-thighed tortoise, lived to be about 165 years old. For 38 years, she was carried as a mascot aboard various ships in Britain's Royal Navy. Then in 1892, at age 53, she retired to the grounds of Powderham Castle in Devon. Up"
"Murphy later claimed the photograph was that of her pet Maine Coon cat, Teddy. In 2013, in a small village on the Shropshire-Wrexham border, two sisters reported seeing a large, black, cat-like creature with a stride jumping a fence and disappearing into a neighbouring field. On returning in the day, they discovered a large lair and paw prints too big to belong to a domesticated cat. A one time zoo-keeper at Chester Zoo and Dudley Zoo, Mr Larkham, agreed that the paw prints do not belong to a domesticated cat but were too small to be those of a panther."
"Daisy Duck Daisy Duck is a cartoon character created in 1940 by Walt Disney Productions as the girlfriend of Donald Duck. Like Donald, Daisy is an anthropomorphic white duck, but has large eyelashes and ruffled tail feathers to suggest a skirt. She is often seen wearing a hair bow, blouse, and heeled shoes. Daisy usually shows a strong affinity towards Donald, although she is often characterized as being more sophisticated than him. Daisy was introduced in the short film ""Mr. Duck Steps Out"" (1940) and was incorporated into Donald's comic stories several months later. She appeared in 11 short films"
"world populations of shy albatrosses and fairy prions. In 1642 it was described by Abel Tasman, who said it ""resembles a lion"". In 1773 it was named by Tobias Furneaux in . It is likely that Mewstone was named after the Great Mewstone, an island about south-southeast of Furneaux's birthplace in Plymouth, United Kingdom. The Great Mewstone got its name from the old English name for the herring gull; mew. Although it is sometimes referred to as ""Mewstone Island"" or ""The Mewstone"", its official name is simply ""Mewstone"". There is very little flora due to the rocky nature of the"