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Deadly nightshade | Poisonous Nature
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Skip to main content. Sort all content by:. Find me in books. Atropa belladonna - image is under CC-BY-SA, from Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen. Did you know that? Nightshade is an ingredient in atropine drops, used in ocular medicine, because atropine dilates the pupils? In the early and middle ages, women of all ages rubbed belladonna juice into their eyes to make them large and beautiful, from which also comes the species name of the plant (bella donna = beautiful woman)? Sea wa...
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European Mistletoe | Poisonous Nature
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Skip to main content. Sort all content by:. Find me in books. European Mistletoe - Viscum album. European Mistletoe - Viscum album - image is under CC-BY-SA, from The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Did you know that? Mistletoe is a hemi-parasitic plant, living on various kinds of trees? Celtic druids regarded mistletoe as sacred, believed that it was capable of curing all ailments, and used it as a cure for infertility? The custom of kissing under mistletoe was brought to Germany by British mercenaries?
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Christmas/Common holly | Poisonous Nature
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Skip to main content. Sort all content by:. Find me in books. Common Holly - Ilex aquifolium. Ilex aquifolium - Image is under CC-BY-SA, from Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen. Ilex aquifolium - Image is under CC-BY-SA, from Hans Hillewaert. Did you know that? Romans, when celebrating the solstice, sent holly twigs to their friends as a sign of their favor? Christian folklore states that holly thorns represent Christ's crown of thorns, and the red berries his blood? Cases of poisonin...
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Belcher's sea snake | Poisonous Nature
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Skip to main content. Sort all content by:. Belcher's sea snake. Find me in books. Did you know that? Sea snakes are among the most poisonous snakes, whose venom is more dangerous than the cobra or mamba? All sea snakes give birth to live young and do so in the water? Sea snakes have completely lost the ability to move on dry land? Sea snakes often travel in large swarms, the largest known of which had around one million individuals and was over a kilometer long? Maximum length - 1 m.
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Fossiilid.info: Plantae
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Plantae Haeckel, 1866. Encyclopedia of Life page. Baltoscandian species (in database): 64. Selection of related publications. Tinn et al., 2015. Kalania pusilla, an exceptionally preserved non-calcified alga from the lower Silurian (Aeronian, Llandovery) of Estonia [DOI]. Mastik and Tinn, 2015. New dasycladalean algal species from the Kalana Lagerstätte (Silurian, Estonia) [DOI]. Vecoli et al., 2011. Feng et al., 2010. Mid-Late Devonian Calcified Marine Algae and Cyanobacteria, South-China. Correlation o...
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Fossiilid.info: Tabulata
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Tabulata Milne-Edwards et Haime, 1850. Encyclopedia of Life page. 488,3–251,0 Ma. Baltoscandian species (in database): 331. Tabulate corals occurred in the Ordovician Period of America and Siberia, much earlier than in Baltoscandia. The first appearances of tabulates. Tabulates are sessile organisms which preferred only shallow seas and are not mush useful in stratigraphy. They were spread on ancient oceans sporadically or formed bioherms or biostromes. Together with strtomatoporoids, rugosans an...Growt...
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Fossiilid.info: Cephalopoda
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Cephalopoda Cuvier, 1798. Tree of Life page. Encyclopedia of Life page. Baltoscandian species (in database): 245. Are extraordinary molluscs equipped with vertebrate-like intelligence and a unique buoyancy system for locomotion. Cephalopods evolved during the Cambrian. Cephalopods are exclusively marine animals. Selection of related publications. Klug et al., 2015. Temporal and latitudinal shifts of Palaeozoic marine invertebrate gigantism and global change [DOI]. The Vaginaten - A first aeemblage analys...
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