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(This is my example page. Do not copy what I do. My example page is on Triops, which is not a Colorado animal. I am just showing you one way that the page can look without stealing somebody else's idea. --Mr. L)

My example has:
 * Text in **one color and one font**. It would be very hard to read if I mixed up the colors or font styles.
 * **Pictures** with captions
 * **Headings** for different sections
 * **Information** from other sources, but **in my own words**.
 * As of today, 11/8/10 it is a work in progress. I am missing my model, timeline and record page. I will add them in the next couple of days.

= TRIOPS  = ===Triops are amazing creatures! We had triops in our room during life cycle unit and there were many things that I found fascinating about them. I have four questions that I was very curious to find the answer to: When were triops discovered or created? Where did they come from? How do you tell which are male and which are female? How did triops survive millions of years ago? ===

__SURVIVAL__
===First, tiops survived millions of years ago because their eggs are very tiny but very tough. They are as small as a grain of sand, only 1/2 mm in diameter. The eggs can survive for 27 years in a dry climate. They will survive being frozen, and being subjected to extreme heat. They will even survive being eaten by another animal. They will just come out the "other side" still able to hatch. Once they are put in water, they will hatch in just 48 hours. While other animal species were unable to survive drought, triops were able to go into a state of diapause, where the eggs stop developing in adverse conditions. They also survive because they are mature enough to lay eggs very soon after hatching themselves. One triops can lay eggs all by him or herself. They don't need to have two parents to fertilize and produce eggs. Another fascinating thing about triops is how quickly they grow. They start out tiny, just 1/20th of a centimeter, they can grow to a few centimeters in just one week. If a human baby grew that fast, he or she would be 40 feet long in a week! ===



__**TRIOPS DISCOVERY**__

 * The last paper written about Triops was about 50 years ago by Alan Longhurst. Prior to that, nobody had written about the triops since the 1900s or even 1800s.**

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__**LIVING FOSSILS**__
Finally, I think they are fascinating because they are "living fossils". There were triops swimming around in water when dinosaurs walked the earth 200 million years ago. The world's oldest animal species is the European Triops. While many animals have evolved or gone extinct, the triops have survived. Today, they can grow naturally in the wild on virtually every country in the World. Scotland, Russia, USA, Africa, India, Iceland, Japan. You name it they are there!



__Male and Female Triops__
There are a few ways to tell the difference between male and female triops. Females have an egg pouch on their underside. Females also have a longer oval shield (carapace) and longer telsons (antennae on the ends of their tails). A student in third grade also told me that females have a white spot on their undersides, but I haven't been able to find information about that.

If you want more information on these amazing creatures, I suggest you visit [|Mytriops.com]
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