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death adders, and, in some taxonomies, sea snakes. Elapids are found ... eels in the case of the partially marine sea kraits and fish, squid, and ...

female mythical creatures that lived on an island and possessed the ability ... 277.jpg|thumb|right|200 px| Gorgons. Attic black-figure lekythos, ca. 530 B.C.E.]] ...

Robben Island (Afrikaans Robbeneiland) is an island in Table Bay, ... When these proved unsuccessful, the island became a penal colony and ...

recently extinct species, Neovison macrodon (sea mink; synonym Mustela macrodon ... pressures on wild populations. The sea mink, for example, was hunted ...

the U.S. Territory of Guam, is an island in the Western Pacific Ocean ... Guam, the largest island in Micronesia, is 1,500 miles (2414 km) southeast ...

In Batak traditions, the earth rests on a giant snake, Naga-Padoha ... he vowed to sink Ra'iatea below the sea. Te-aho-aroa and Ro'o ...

On average, the park stands 7.5 m above sea level; 54 small islands reside ... Cormorants, Fishing Eagles, White Bellied Sea Eagles, Seagulls, Common Kingfishers ...

and two large ones: Unguja (the main island, sometimes informally referred ... the Maluku Islands in Indonesia. Pemba Island is the only island apart ...

intrusion or volcanic neck located in the Black Hills in northeastern Wyoming ... for rock-climbers. Like the surrounding Black Hills, Native Americans consider ...

Troy (southeast Thessaly), and the immortal sea nymph Thetis. Zeus and Poseidon ... returned home to her father, the old man of the sea. Apollodorus, ...

Snake is any of the numerous elongate, limbless, scaled, carnivorous ... They range in size from the tiny thread snake to pythons and anacondas ...

and national preserve located in the Snake River Plain of central Idaho ... intact sagebrush steppe communities on the Snake River Plain. A surprising ...

Nuclear Reservation, before meeting the Snake River in what is known as ... Major tributaries are the Kootenay, Snake, Pend Oreille, Spokane, ...

and Bridger as a guide. After exploring the Black Hills region of in what is ... Both the Yellowstone River and the Snake River have their origins ...

Age civilization in Crete in the Aegean Sea, flourishing from approximately ... new settlements were built all over the island. This period (the seventeenth ...

of the Greek islands, the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea ... The island is first referred to as Kaptara in texts from the Syrian ...

surface. They are closely related to the sea anemones, which are also classified ... Although corals can catch plankton and sea anemones can catch fish ...

life. Known as "rainforests of the sea" and "oases in the ... "Saving rainforests of the sea: An analysis of international ...

even found in brackish water of the Baltic Sea. However pike are confined ... Asia, as well as freshwater habitat on the island of Sakhalin. It reaches ...

has a Zu-bird perched in the branches and a snake living in the roots. This ... also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry ...

survive protracted periods of time in the sea, and can hunt prey within ... covered with sensory pits, seen as small, black speckles on the skin, the ...

Indigenous Australians with the other black peoples of Asia and Africa ... years ago via a land bridge between the island and the rest of mainland ...

was the extensive, nearly flat floor of the former sea. ... disturbed except where mountains like the Black Hills were uplifted about ...

The term volcano is thought to derive from Vulcano, a volcanic island ... and most volcanic activity is submarine. Black smokers are a typical example ...

Salmon, Northern Spotted Owl, and Steller's Sea Lion. ... northern-spotted owl, and the Steller's sea lion are a few of the other ...

Sightings are often similar to some sea monsters. Of these, Nessie ... is the primal monster of the waters of the sea and Ziz the primordial monster ...

the southern Caribbean between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean ... or Gasparee), Little Tobago, and St. Giles Island. Trinidad is 7 mi (11 km ...

beaches over millions of years as global sea levels rose and fell. During ... At 345 feet (105 m) above mean sea level, Britton Hill is the highest ...

has reduced the shapes she once wore of snake and bird to attributes, but ... "born," and trito- suggests the sea-gods Amphitrite and Triton ...

ago, much of Kakadu was under a shallow sea. The prominent escarpment ... Large silt loads are also carried out to sea, some of the silt being deposited ...

Dejima (出島, literally 'protruding island'), a fan-shaped artificial ... The psychological shock of the Western black ships and the subsequent ...

The sea in a general sense refers to the ocean or world ocean, the ... plants, fungi, and animals, lives in the sea, which offers a wide range ...

There is one Argentine exclave: the island of Martín García. It ... reaffirmed Argentine jurisdiction over the island, ending a century-old dispute ...

was to command solely on land and jointly at sea, and Athens was to pay two ... Demosthenes escaped to a sanctuary on the island of Calauria, where he was ...

of Chusan, later to be exchanged for the island of Hong Kong. ... fleets would enter the Bosphorus or the Black Sea, she would have been deterred. ...

to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its western coast. ... European to set foot in India through a sea route, landing in Calicut ...

Europe occupying five-sixths of the island of Ireland. The remainder ... The island of Ireland extends over 32,556 square miles, (84,421 square ...

school) on the East Frisian North Sea island, Spiekeroog where he ... in northern Germany on the Baltic Sea. This location was chosen ...

[[Image:Ants cleaning dead snake.jpg|right|400px|thumb|Ants begin ... the water, in what is known as burial at sea. Several mountain villages ...

is bounded to the north by the Mediterranean Sea, the west by Tunisia and Algeria ... 600 million year ago that were eroded by sea water, which once covered ...