Some Rainforest Photos

The landscape of the Amazon is a fascinating scene. This post is just to admire the natural beauty of the rainforest. Enjoy!

Giant Anteater

The giant anteater is a very interesting animal. It has a long snout that it's tongue can go 2 feet out of. The distinct animal is covered in straw-like fur. These animals also have backwards claws to dig into ant and termite nests. You could call it giant because the creature is 4 to 6 feet long and can weigh up to 85 pounds. The anteater's body temperature is always low unless it eats, so it eats 1000 ants each feeding. It eats about 30,000 ants each day! It is the only anteater out of the 3 in the amazon that spends it's entire life on the forest floor. It is very slow like a sloth. Just like all the other rain forest animals, the anteater is a splendid animal

Clues to the Past

Deep in the amazon, in 2004, scientists found the first clue that dinosaurs may have lived in the rain forests of South America. the amazonsaurus maranhensis! It is a plant eater that is in the diplodocus family, that weighs 10 tons and is 10 meters long. Finding a fossil of a dinosaur in the amazon is a big deal because the rain forest is so humid that most fossils decay. There is no conclusion that dinosaurs lived there in the past yet, because the scientists had too little evidence for them to decide. Another piece of evidence was a dinosaur tooth found in the amazon, but it still wasn't enough information. The amazonsaurus gave ideas for another theory too. The fossil the paleontologists found was similar to one found in Africa giving more information that South America and Africa were once connected. So, did dinosaurs once live in the rain forest?

You decide.