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Permian Period Carboniferous Period lamp shells fossil Tetractinella Atrypa Neospirifer Chonetes Mucrospirifer Platystrophia Rensselaeria Tropidoleptus Leptodus Eospirifer

Mute swan with cygnet. (birds)

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Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), also called great sea otter, rare, completely marine otter of the northern Pacific, usually found in kelp beds. Floats on back. Looks like sea otter laughing. saltwater otters

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The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) is seen in Switzerland on December 2024

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Lion (panthera leo)

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