"of many pathogens, such as rabies; and since they are highly mobile, social, and long-lived, they can readily spread disease. In many cultures, bats are popularly associated with darkness, malevolence, witchcraft, vampires, and death. An older English name for bats is flittermouse, which matches their name in other Germanic languages (for example German ""Fledermaus"" and Swedish ""fladdermus""), related to the fluttering of wings. Middle English had ""bakke"", most likely cognate with Old Swedish ""natbakka"" (""night-bat""), which may have undergone a shift from ""-k-"" to ""-t-"" (to Modern English ""bat"") influenced by Latin ""blatta"", ""moth, nocturnal insect"". The word ""bat"" was"
"Feathertail glider The feathertail glider (""Acrobates pygmaeus""), also known as the pygmy gliding possum, pygmy glider, pygmy phalanger, flying phalanger and flying mouse, is a species of marsupial native to eastern Australia. It is the world's smallest gliding mammal and is named for its long feather-shaped tail. At just in head-and-body length and weighing about , the feathertail glider is only around the size of a small mouse, and is the world's smallest gliding mammal. The fur is soft and silky, and is a uniform greyish brown on the upper body, and white on the underside. There are rings of"
"Hopping mouse A hopping mouse is any of about ten different Australian native mice in the genus Notomys. They are rodents, not marsupials, and their ancestors are thought to have arrived from Asia about 5 million years ago. All are brown or fawn, fading to pale grey or white underneath, have very long tails and, as the common name implies, well-developed hind legs. Half of the hopping mouse species have become extinct since European colonisation. The primary cause is probably predation from introduced foxes or cats, coupled with competition for food from introduced rabbits and cattle. A hopping mouse's primary"
"Aegyptopithecus Aegyptopithecus (""Egyptian ape"", from Greek ""Αίγυπτος"" ""Egypt"" and ""πίθηκος"" ""ape"") is an early fossil catarrhine that predates the divergence between hominoids (apes) and cercopithecids (Old World monkeys). It is known from a single species, Aegyptopithecus zeuxis, which lived around 30 million years ago in the early part of the Oligocene epoch. It likely resembled modern-day New World monkeys, and was about the same size as a modern howler monkey, which is about long. ""Aegyptopithecus"" fossils have been found in the Jebel Qatrani Formation of modern-day Egypt. ""Aegyptopithecus"" is believed to be a stem-catarrhine, a crucial link between Eocene and"
"protected at Archbold Biological Station, Ocala National Forest, and others. Florida mouse The Florida mouse (""Podomys floridanus"") is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is the only species in the genus Podomys, which is the only mammal genus endemic to Florida. The Florida mouse (also known as the big-eared deermouse, the Florida deermouse, and the gopher mouse) is found only in a limited area in central peninsular Florida and in one small area in the Florida panhandle. The mouse inhabits some of Florida's hottest and driest areas in the high pinelands, sandhills, flatlands, and coastal scrub. The"
"Smoky mouse The smoky mouse, fausse souris fuligineuse, raton bastardo fumoso, or Koonoom (""Pseudomys fumeus"") is a species of rodent in the family Muridae native to southeastern Australia. It was first described in 1934 and its species name is Latin ""smoky"". As its name suggests, it is a grey-furred mouse, darker grey above and paler smoky grey below. Mice from the Grampians are larger and a darker more slate-grey above. It has a black eye-ring and dark grey muzzle. The feet are light pink, and the ears a grey-pink. The tail is longer than the mouse's body, and is pink"
"Florida mouse The Florida mouse (""Podomys floridanus"") is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is the only species in the genus Podomys, which is the only mammal genus endemic to Florida. The Florida mouse (also known as the big-eared deermouse, the Florida deermouse, and the gopher mouse) is found only in a limited area in central peninsular Florida and in one small area in the Florida panhandle. The mouse inhabits some of Florida's hottest and driest areas in the high pinelands, sandhills, flatlands, and coastal scrub. The mouse is an omnivore, measures in total length, has relatively"
"Long-eared flying mouse The long-eared flying mouse (""Idiurus macrotis""), or long-eared scaly-tailed flying squirrel, is a species of flying mouse from western and central Africa. It is not actually a :squirrel, nor a :mouse, though it is a rodent. Not much is known about them because they are very hard to keep alive in captivity. To achieve gliding flight, it uses two membranes (patagia) which fold up when not in use. When the limbs are stretched wide in a star-shape, the membranes become taut and allow the rodent to glide from tree to tree. Being arboreal, ""Idiurus"" spends all of"
"from the bush rat, is the hairy tail with distinct bi-colouration: dark above and light beneath. This species is listed as threatened in the states of Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia. Heath mouse The heath mouse (""Pseudomys shortridgei"") is a species of mouse in the subfamily Murinae, the Old World rats and mice. Alternative common names include, heath rat, blunt-faced rat, Shortridge's native mouse, fausse souris de Shortridge (French), and ratón bastardo crestado (Spanish). It is endemic to Australia. This is one of the larger Australian ""Pseudomys"" species, with a body mass of 55 to 90 grams, head and"
"barn owls and mottled owls. They breed two or three times a year, probably without any distinct breeding season. Nimble-footed mouse The nimble-footed mouse (""Peromyscus levipes"") is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico. The nimble-footed mouse has a typical mouse-like appearance, and closely resembles other members of the ""Peromyscus boylii"" species group, from some of which it can only be distinguished by genetic analysis. It has tawny or buff fur over most of the body, with dusky hairs and white or creamy-white under parts. There is a ring of darker fur around"
"of the tail is sometimes whitish, but is otherwise like the colour of the back. The fur on the back has scattered broad and flat spiny hairs with white tips. Finer spines are also found on the fur of the underside. The genus name is derived from the flattened (""platy-"") spines (Greek ""acantha""), while ""mus"" refers to a mouse. The species name ""lasiurus"" is based on the Greek ""lasios"" for hairy and ""—oura"" for tail. The position of this species has been puzzled on from very early times. In 1860, Sclater exhibited a specimen noting it as a new dormouse"
"""et al""., 2015, showing the position of ""Astrapotherium"": The animal was probably at least partially aquatic, living in shallow water and feeding on marsh plants in a similar manner to a modern hippopotamus. Astrapotherium Astrapotherium (""Lightning Beast"") is an extinct genus of South American mammal which vaguely resembled a cross between a small elephant, and a very large tapir. This peculiar-looking animal was unrelated to modern elephants, and was, instead, related to other extinct South American ungulates. The beast lived in the Early to Middle Miocene. Fossil remains of the type species ""A. magnus"" (""Great Lightning Beast"") have been found"
"Laughing falcon The laughing falcon (""Herpetotheres cachinnans""), also called the snake hawk (erroneously, since it is not a hawk), is a medium-sized bird of prey in the falcon family (Falconidae), the only member of the genus Herpetotheres. This Neotropical species is a specialist snake-eater. Its common and scientific names both refer to its distinctive voice. Its English name comes from its loud voice, as does the specific name ""cachinnans"", Latin for ""laughing aloud"" or ""laughing immoderately"". The generic name ""Herpetotheres"" refers to its preferred food; it is Latinized Ancient Greek, derived from ""[h]erpeton"" (ἑρπετόν, ""reptile"") + ""therizein"" (θερίζειν, ""to mow"
"notable that very few of the clay-living hopping mice have survived European settlement, sand dunes apparently providing a more secure refuge from competitors and predators. It is also commonly known as the broad-cheeked hopping mouse. Great hopping mouse The great hopping mouse (""Notomys robustus"") is extinct. It is known only from skulls found in owl pellets in the Flinders Ranges. Some pellets also include bones of the introduced house mouse—indicating that it survived into historic times, possibly the second half of the 19th century. From the skull, it appears to have been relatively large (perhaps the size of ""N. amplus"""
"Yale (mythical creature) The yale or centicore (Latin: ""eale"") is a mythical beast found in European mythology and heraldry. Most descriptions make it an antelope- or goat-like four-legged creature with the tusks of a boar and large horns that it can swivel in any direction. The name might be derived from Hebrew יָעֵל (""yael""), meaning ""Ibex"". The yale was first written about by Pliny the Elder in Book VIII of his ""Natural History"": he describes the ""eale"" as a creature found in Aethiopia ""the size of a hippopotamus, with an elephant's tail, of a black or tawny colour, with the"
"is about five years. The New Zoo in Poznań, Poland, was the first European zoo to breed feathertail gliders in 1999 (their animals originated from Sydney's Taronga Zoo). Some of the feathertail gliders born in Poznań have been sent to other European zoos, meaning that the entire European captive population is of Poznań descent. Australia's Taronga Zoo was the first zoo to breed feathertail gliders in captivity. A Feathertail glider was featured on the reverse of the Australian 1-cent coin until 1991. Feathertail glider The feathertail glider (""Acrobates pygmaeus""), also known as the pygmy gliding possum, pygmy glider, pygmy phalanger,"
"Hairy-eared dwarf lemur The hairy-eared dwarf lemur (""Allocebus trichotis""), or hairy-eared mouse lemur, is one of the most scarcely known lemurs. ""A. trichotis"" is a nocturnal lemur that is endemic to Madagascar. It was originally named by Dr. Albert Günther in 1875 as ""Cheirogaleus trichotis"" as part of the ""Cheirogaleidae"" family, or the dwarf lemurs. However, in 1967 Petter-Rousseaux and Petter reassigned the lemur to its own genus and is the now only member of the genus Allocebus. The hairy-eared dwarf lemur was thought to be extinct until its rediscovery in 1989 in a northeastern primary lowland rainforest. The population"
"Groundhog The groundhog (""Marmota monax""), also known as a woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. It was first scientifically described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The groundhog is also referred to as a chuck, wood-shock, groundpig, whistlepig, whistler, thickwood badger, Canada marmot, monax, moonack, weenusk, red monk and, among French Canadians in eastern Canada, siffleux. The name ""thickwood badger"" was given in the Northwest to distinguish the animal from the prairie badger. Monax (""Móonack"") is an Algonquian name of the woodchuck, which meant ""digger"" (cf. Lenape ""monachgeu"")."
"Hadropithecus Hadropithecus is a medium-sized, extinct genus of lemur, or strepsirrhine primate, from Madagascar that includes a single species, Hadropithecus stenognathus. Due to its rarity and lack of sufficient skeletal remains, it is one of the least understood of the extinct lemurs. Both it and ""Archaeolemur"" are collectively known as ""monkey lemurs"" or ""baboon lemurs"" due to body plans and dentition that suggest a terrestrial lifestyle and a diet similar to that of modern baboons. ""Hadropithecus"" had extended molars and a short, powerful jaw, suggesting that it was both a grazer and a seed predator. The monkey lemurs are considered"
"Hadropithecus Hadropithecus is a medium-sized, extinct genus of lemur, or strepsirrhine primate, from Madagascar that includes a single species, Hadropithecus stenognathus. Due to its rarity and lack of sufficient skeletal remains, it is one of the least understood of the extinct lemurs. Both it and ""Archaeolemur"" are collectively known as ""monkey lemurs"" or ""baboon lemurs"" due to body plans and dentition that suggest a terrestrial lifestyle and a diet similar to that of modern baboons. ""Hadropithecus"" had extended molars and a short, powerful jaw, suggesting that it was both a grazer and a seed predator. The monkey lemurs are considered"
"Moropus Moropus (meaning ""slow foot"") is an extinct genus of perissodactyl (""odd-toed"") mammal that belonged to the group called chalicotheres, which were endemic to North America during the Miocene from ~20.4—13.6 Mya, existing for approximately . ""Moropus"" is related to the modern horse, rhino, and tapir. ""Moropus"" was named by Marsh (1877). Its type is Moropus distans. It was synonymized subjectively with ""Macrotherium"" by Osborn (1893). It was assigned to Moropodidae by Marsh (1877); to Chalicotheriidae by Marsh (1877), Peterson (1907), Skinner (1968), Coombs (1978), Carroll (1988), Coombs (1998) and Holbrook (1999); and to Schizotheriinae by Geraads et al. (2007)."
"""wool"" and Greek ""saurus"", ""lizard"", and honours Professor Alfred Walter Crompton, nicknamed ""Fuzz"" because of his woolly hair. The specific name is derived from Latin ""scalprum"", ""chisel"", and ""dens"", ""tooth"". It is based on a partial upper jaw bone, the maxilla, holotype BP/1/4244, found in the Upper Elliot Formation of Free State. The teeth show a typical replacement pattern in which during each replacement cycle every third tooth is renewed. Gow himself in 1990 concluded that the holotype of ""Lanasaurus"" was actually a specimen of ""Lycorhinus angustidens"". This has been commonly accepted since. ""L. angustidens"" is thought to be allied"
"from the ""Megacerines"", such as the Irish elk, which evolved many species before going extinct. Some scientists, such as Adrian Lister, grouped all the species into one genus, while others, such as Augusto Azzaroli, used ""Alces"" for the living species, placing the fossil species into the genera ""Cervalces"" and ""Libralces"". The earliest known species is ""Libralces gallicus"" (French moose), which lived in the Pliocene epoch, about 2 million years ago. ""Libralces gallicus"" came from the warm savannahs of Pliocene Europe, with the best preserved skeletons being found in southern France. ""L. gallicus"" was 1.25 times larger than the Alaskan moose"
"Mosasaurus Mosasaurus (; ""lizard of the Meuse River"") is a genus of mosasaurs, extinct carnivorous aquatic lizards. It existed during the Maastrichtian age of the late Cretaceous period, between about 70 and 66 million years ago, in western Europe and North America. The name means ""Meuse lizard"", as the first specimen was found near the Meuse River (Latin ""Mosa"" + Greek ""sauros"" lizard). ""Mosasaurus"" was among the last of the mosasaurids, and among the largest. As with most mosasaurids, the legs and feet of ""Mosasaurus"" were modified into flippers, and the front flippers were larger than the hind flippers. The"
"bite. Laughing falcon The laughing falcon (""Herpetotheres cachinnans""), also called the snake hawk (erroneously, since it is not a hawk), is a medium-sized bird of prey in the falcon family (Falconidae), the only member of the genus Herpetotheres. This Neotropical species is a specialist snake-eater. Its common and scientific names both refer to its distinctive voice. Its English name comes from its loud voice, as does the specific name ""cachinnans"", Latin for ""laughing aloud"" or ""laughing immoderately"". The generic name ""Herpetotheres"" refers to its preferred food; it is Latinized Ancient Greek, derived from ""[h]erpeton"" (ἑρπετόν, ""reptile"") + ""therizein"" (θερίζειν, ""to"
"Nimble-footed mouse The nimble-footed mouse (""Peromyscus levipes"") is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico. The nimble-footed mouse has a typical mouse-like appearance, and closely resembles other members of the ""Peromyscus boylii"" species group, from some of which it can only be distinguished by genetic analysis. It has tawny or buff fur over most of the body, with dusky hairs and white or creamy-white under parts. There is a ring of darker fur around the eyes, and sometimes on the muzzle, and often a faint blackish line down the middle of the back."
"Dormouse A dormouse is a rodent of the family Gliridae (this family is also variously called Myoxidae or Muscardinidae by different taxonomists). Dormice are mostly found in Europe, although some species live in Africa or Asia. A nocturnal animal, dormice are particularly known for their long periods of hibernation. As only one species of dormouse is native to the British Isles, the hazel dormouse, in everyday English usage ""dormouse"" can refer either to that one species or to the family as a whole. The English name of the species derived from the French ""dormeuse"", and the latter in turn probably"
"to be independent young from their mothers. Texas mouse The Texas mouse (""Peromyscus attwateri"") is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas in the United States. This species is named in honor of Henry Philemon Attwater. The Texas mouse is considered medium-sized for its genus. It has long tail, bicolored, upper tail has brownish, and lower tail has brownish white with well haired. Also slightly tufted at the end; large hind feet. It has usually dark or dusky ankles, and the ear is medium-seized. Color of dorsal is dark"
"www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/02/son_of_caveman_springfield_boo.html. Glawackus The glawackus is one of the fearsome critters, a group of legendary creatures in the folklore and traditions of lumberjacks during the 19th and early 20th centuries in North America.The Glawackus is described as looking something between a bear, panther, and a lion. The Glawackus is also known as the Northern Devil Cat, It is known for its fearsome screech that compares to the cackle of a hyena. The creature is blind and uses its sense of smell as well as sound waves. Looking in to the creatures eyes is said to wipe the victims memory. It was"
"Big-eared hopping mouse The big-eared hopping mouse (""Notomys macrotis"") is an extinct species of mouse, which lived in the Moore River area of south-western Australia. The big-eared hopping mouse was a small, rat-sized animal resembling a tiny kangaroo. It had large eyes and ears with a brush-tipped tail. It moved on its four legs when traveling at a slower pace, or by bounding upon its enlarged, padded, hind feet when traveling quickly. They mainly lived in sand dunes or nests made of leaves and other organic materials, which attributed to the “morphological and physiological adaptations” of the elongated hind feet"
"a theropod, a member of the Ornithomimidae. It has later been described as a hypsilophodont, a primitive ornithopod. However, this was based on a contentious reference of bones found in the Dinosaur Cave, leading to a possible confusion between multiple species of Euornithopoda. Most researchers today consider it a ""nomen dubium"". Its name is an unusual example of a name in which -""therium"" was used for an animal which is not an extinct mammal. Fulgurotherium Fulgurotherium (meaning """"Lightning Beast"""") is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) Griman Creek Formation. It lived in what"
"habitat degradation, competition for food with introduced species, and predation by introduced cats and foxes. Fawn hopping mouse The fawn hopping mouse (""Notomys cervinus"") is a rodent native to the central Australian desert. Like all hopping mice it has strong front teeth, a long tail, dark eyes, big ears, well-developed haunches and very long, narrow hind feet. It weighs between . (Compare with the common house mouse, at .) The coloration of the fawn hopping mouse varies from pale pinkish-fawn to grey on the upper parts, and white underneath. The tail is long, bicoloured (white underneath, darker below), and ends"
"two species groups. Hooper's mouse Hooper's mouse (""Peromyscus hooperi"") is a species of rodents in the family Cricetidae. It is the only member of the Peromyscus hooperi species group, and is found only in Mexico. The species is named for Emmett Hooper, a researcher into the taxonomy of the genus ""Peromyscus"". Hooper's mouse is a medium-sized deer mouse, with a total length of , including the tail. Adults have an average weight of . The mouse is greyish in color, with a faint brownish tint, and has cream-colored underparts fading to white on the lower limbs. The tail is also"