Hodgepodge
Hybrid Animal Parents
Patrick's Pokemon Category (Pt. 3)
Before & After
150 Years of "Nature"
100
After all the gelato, I feel as big as a Balaena, one of these.
What is a whale?
100
Among Birds, the swoose
What is a swan and a goose?
100
Tandemaus, the Couple Pokemon, evolves into Maushold, the Family Pokemon, through this real life technique.
What is reproduction?
100
Snoopy’s owner who’s a large forest-dwelling ursine creature
Charlie Brown Bear
100
In 2004, Nature published a paper about an extinct diminutive hominin nicknamed after this race from "The Lord of the Rings."
What are Hobbits?
200
Of carnivore, herbivore or omnivore, the word that describes the 80-foot long, 40-foot tall brachiosaurus.
What is a herbivore?
200
Yattle, asian beasts of burden
What are Yak and Cattle?
200
Great Tusk, the Paradox Pokemon, is an ancient relative of another elephantine Pokemon. Great Tusk takes inspiration from which real life animal?
What is a Mammoth or Mastodon?
200
Angling necessity that’s a high-flying track & field event.
Fishing pole vault
200
An 1896 article in Nature was about "A New Kind of Rays" called these, "For the sake of brevity."
What are X-Rays?
300
The chickaree is also called the pine type of this rodent; it hides pine cones the way others hide nuts.
What is a squirrel?
300
The Humpless Cama
What is a camel and a llama?
300
Toedscool, the Woodear Pokemon, shares a similar look to Tentacool, the Jellyfish Pokemon. This is reflective of what real world phenomena?
What is convergent evolution?
300
A frankfurter within Canis Major
Hot Dog Star
300
An 1880 letter in Nature, "On the skin-furrows of the hand," was one of the first to suggest using these for identification.
What are fingerprints?
400
It's the Italian name for squid, whose meat is firm and chewy.
What is Calamari?
400
The ferocious Pizzly
What are a polar bear and a grizzly?
400
Maschiff, the Rascal Pokemon, is a mischievous Dark-type Pokemon. So, it likely doesn't know the answer to this question.
Who's a good boy?
400
Billionaire superhero & inventor of a miniature Arc Reactor/jellyfish relative of the gulf stream.
Iron man of war
400
DAILY DOUBLE
German settlers in Texas called this animal "Panzerschwein"
What is an armadillo?
500
From the old Norse for "brag," it means to complain or find fault in a petty way.
What is carp?
500
A marine mammal called the Narluga
What is a narwhal and a beluga?
500
Kilowattrel, the this Pokemon, has an inflatable throat sac that it uses to amplify electricity. This feature is similar to this real bird.
What is a frigatebird?
500
18th century Prussian king & military genius who is a large body of water in northern Utah.
Frederick the Great Salt Lake.
500
A 1953 Nature paper, one of the most famous in the history of science, began, "We wish to suggest a structure" for this.
What is a structure for DNA?