Vampire Bat

Its got a face only a mother could love and invokes fear in most! So do these scary little creatures actually drink your blood? Yes. Yes they do. Its a dietary trait called hematophagy and the Vampire Bat solely feeds on the blood of mammals. There are three species of Vampire Bat in total; The common Vampire Bat (Desmodus Rotundus), The hairy-legged Vampire Bat (Diphylla Ecaudata) and the white winged Vampire Bat (Diaemus Youngi) and are found throughout the Americas ranging from Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Argentina. The Vampire Bat’s favourite place to dwell is in dark places such as caves or tree hollows, depending on the size of the colony which can range anywhere from a few individuals to hundreds.

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Gypsum tumulus in Germany

The great Jurassic limestone platform that covers much of Western Europe was born when the sea levels were higher due to the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea. As new oceans opened at the nascent spreading ridges, entire ocean basins rose due to the buoyancy imparted by the heated roiling mantle below that was fuelling the supercontinental split. This meant in practice that much of the land was covered by sea as the water was pushed out of its basins in very slow motion, and these ubiquitous limestones and the younger Cretaceous chalk (as in the White Cliffs of Dover) are the most obvious remnants of this process.

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