I need information about newts!!! for my science homework please HELP!!?
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Newts, short for newtons, were first found by Christopher Columbus in 1495.  A four legged amphibian, these "lizards" were discovered during Columbus' exploration of the Florida wetlands.  One of Columbus' first mates famously stated that, "Los newtonos esta muy pocino", translated "The newtons are very little."
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http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/brittoncrocs/csl.html\n\nThis is a good one.
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Toads, (like frogs, newts & other amhibians) deposit their eggs in the water as what is often called "frogspawn". It looks a litle like see-thru tapioca pudding, or sometimes like a string of tapioca. The fertilized eggs develop into 'polywogs' ot 'tadpoles', which look like little toads with tails.  Then they get bigger, and come out of the water.\n\nToads are bitter tasting and do not make good snacks. (My dog tells me this, quite often, by his expression upon biting into one, and the fact he always leaves half of each toad he tries!)
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Go here for a great picture of a baracuda and description: \n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/22403/data/medium/species/barracuda.html
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Here are two links. The first dscribes it's taxonomical charicteristics, the second link has pictures.\n\nGood Luck.
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You've already gotten some good sites and indications.\nThe tree frogs belong to family Hylidae, so you might try to search for the family name.\nThis family includes not only the "typical" tree frogs, but also the marsupial frogs and the slow-moving leaf-frogs.\n\nHere's the Animal Diversity Web, a good site with information:\nhttp://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Hylidae.html
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Amphibians as a group are not doing that well on the planet and are one of the most sensitive groups suffering losses during environemntal degradation of the planet, esp their larval stages.  But here are a few cool things about them:\n\ntoads estivate and bury themselves deep in mud with spades on their back feet during peak heat-dry periods of summer\n\nfrogs hibernate-freeze (they are ectotherms) and can stay at bottle of a pond-lake frozen and thaw out in spring thaws.\n\npoison glands on skin and slimey skin helps them have a chance against some predation.\n\ngreat camoflauge on some species skin, esp with dorsal side of frog being greenish and ventral underside being whitish so they blend in their environment. \n\nGreat bright colors on some frogs in rain forest is a warning of their degree of poisonous-ness.....warning to animals to stay away and not eat-touch them.
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Sure, ask a question with no answer.;-) \nThere is currently no information available about the breeding behavior of this species according to University of Texas Austin.  Because it is a cave salamander it is likely that there is no actual breeding season for this species. In a cave environment most or all seasonal cues such as changes in day length, or temperature are absent. \n\nBelow is a description of what is known about the breeding behavior of the Texas Blind Salamander, which are closely related taxonomically, geographically, and in habitat to the Cascade Caverns Salamander. It seems to be the only info available for any of the cave salamanders in TX. It's probably fair to speculate that their breeding strategies are similar or even the same.\n\n\nLittle is known about the reproduction of Eurycea (Typhlomolge) rathbuni. The species is known to be acyclic with females maturing and reproducing throughout the year, unresponsive to seasonal cues. This breeding cycle is typical of many cave dwelling species (Lofts 1974). Breeding of this species has been observed in the laboratory. The females assumes an active role in stimulating the male to mate. Her behavior is characterized by rubbing her chin along the male's back. If this fails to stimulate the male then she may scratch at him or fan her tail at him. She may even resort to nipping at his sides if he further ignores her advances. The male will deposit a spermatophore on a rock or substrate and the female will then pick it up with her cloaca (Bechler 1988).
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Look at http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/biology/lecture8/images/g3poxids.gif
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Here you go...\n\nhttp://biog-101-104.bio.cornell.edu/Biog101_104/tutorials/frog.html\nhttp://www.infovisual.info/02/026_en.html
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Try searches at the following. You may need to hit the library. \n\nhttp://www.scirus.com/srsapp/\n\nhttp://www.scienceresearch.com/search/
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WELL..... HE IS A NEWT LOVER :-)
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this might help\nhttp://www.sciencebuddies.org/index.htm?gclid=CNKB5o6Y4ogCFRZQTAodPm_rjw
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hey man i got this site search it for more info\n http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Cygnus_buccinator.html
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Duma, I see you've already asked this question twice. What you should do is contact some invertebrate researcher (in a museum or natural history institution) for help, because local keys and checklists of fauna are not easy to find unless one knows where to look for them.\n\nHere are some links to papers with reference to Asian species, that's the closest I could get.\nhttp://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/39.4/285-294.pdf\nhttp://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/40.4/276.pdf\nhttp://www.senckenberg.uni-frankfurt.de/odes/03-11.pdf\n\nHere's a link to a journal that specializes in invertebrate systematics:\nhttp://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/121/issue/529.htm\n\nAnd here's the citation of two papers about freshwater earthworms:\n \nOhtaka, A.; Usman, R. 1997. Records of tubificid oligochaetes from Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, with description of a new species of Aulodrilus Bretscher. Species Diversity 2: 145-154.\nOhtaka, A.; Hartoto, D.I.; Usman, R. 2000. Preliminary study on freshwater Oligochaeta in Indonesia. Rep. Suwa Hydrobiol. 12: 29-38\n\nYou coult try to contact Mr Ohtaka.\nhttp://read.jst.go.jp/ddbs/plsql/KNKY_EG_24?code=1000003153
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What a cool project!  So to answer one of your questions, the crucial distinction among your phyla will be whether or not they're chordates -- which of course includes the vertebrates (but also some invertebrates such as sea squirts and certain worms).  \n\nSo your bipedal wolf (I'm assuming the missing d was a typo, but if "bipeal" is a word from your universe, please let me know) would be phylum chordata, class vertebrata, order mammalia, family canidae, genus canus, species lupus bipedalis (and I'm envisioning something like a cross between Lawrence Talbot and Speaker-to-Animals, without retractible claws).  But that's just off the top of my head.\n\nOne thing I've discussed with my ten-year-old son is the absence of hexapod vertebrates -- e.g. flying horses, winged dragons, etc.  If you were closer, I'd invite you over for coffee and an all-day discussion of where to classify them, and how they evolved.  Since all terrestrial vertebrates have essentially the same structure, it's clear they all shared a common ancestor which makes hexapodal vertebrates, sadly, impossible in our known universe -- so was there a hexapodal (imaginary) marine vertebrate who also scuttled across the floors of silent seas before crawling out of the surf and saying "Hey, the carcharodons can't get me here!  Kewl!"?  ...Which of course suggests all sorts of hexapodal marine vertebrates that shared the same skeletal architecture.  Ooooh, fun.\n\nAnd the final question... so zoology is the study of animals.  There's also cryptozoology, which I've described flippantly as "the study of imaginary animals."  But of course, it's more technically the study of animals that may or may not exist.  So what would we call your zoology, which is the study of animals you've intentionally invented?  Oh, of course, poeiazoology (-poeia, meaing to construct -- as in mythopoeia, the term Tolkien invented to describe the invention of mythologies.)\n\nAnd on that note, elen sila lumen omentielvo!
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Here is a very good site, hope this helps.\nhttp://www.coopsjokes.com/amz/amzrept.htm\nHere are some other interesting facts, I got them from watching the Discovery Channel.\n-The basilisk (or Jesus Christ) lizard has the ability to walk on water.\n-Recently a two headed albino snake was put up for sale.  Albino alligators are also known to exist.\n-Cottonmouth rattlesnakes were given their name because the insides of their mouths are white.\n-Snakes can dislocate their jaws to swallow prey whole.  I know that some species of snake can consume deer whole.