Caribbean rock iguana. Rock iguanas play an important role in the Caribbean islands due to their diet of fruits, flowers and leaves. The seeds pass through the digestive tract of the iguana and are left behind in its droppings, helping to spread the seeds the grow new plants.
Species: Caribbean rock iguana, Cyclura
Image ID: 12824
Caribbean rock iguana. Rock iguanas play an important role in the Caribbean islands due to their diet of fruits, flowers and leaves. The seeds pass through the digestive tract of the iguana and are left behind in its droppings, helping to spread the seeds the grow new plants.
Species: Caribbean rock iguana, Cyclura
Image ID: 12825
Dead trees embedded in calcium carbonate deposits in the travertine terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs, near Minerva terrace . Over two tons of calcium carbonate (in solution) is deposited each day on the terraces, gradually killing any vegetation that had managed to be growing.
Location: Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 19796
Fossil fish, collected at the Green River Formation, Kemmerer, Wyoming, dated to the Eocene Era. Mioplosus are part of the perch family, predatory fishes.
Species: Mioplosus
Image ID: 20868