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If you are a K-12 student in the United States, your challenge is to pick a vertebrate animal living in a tropical rainforest and draw/illustrate/predict how it may look in the future due to long term effects of climate change (think thousands of years ... or more!). Please consider habitat changes due to rising temperatures and rising seas, and animal adaptations needed to survive, such as camouflage, defense, eating food, and/or how it moves. Some possible habitat changes to consider are: Inland rainforests that become savannas (rolling grasslands with scattered trees & shrubs) or inland rainforests that become mixed woodlands (low density forest with shrubs and trees), or coastal rainforests that become marshes/seasonal wetlands or become completely underwater. Your entry should provide at least two illustrations - one of your animal in its present habitat and one as an adapted animal in the predicted future habitat. Also, submit a short essay (max 1500 characters) to explain your illustrations. (You may not choose humans as your animal.) Be sure to review the CONTEST RULES and DESIGN GUIDELINES, including the student privacy rules, such as: No personal names and faces in your entry! Go wild... and good luck!

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Ryann H.
Garden City, NY

Fossavoda

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Akshara S., Rhea R.
Allen, TX

Poison Dart Frog

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Kayla F.
Upton, MA

The Black Spider Monkey

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Shriya M.
Littleton, CO

Armored Giant Anteater

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Colin C.
Morgan Hill, CA

Future Green Anaconda

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Jasmine S., Xander S.
Woodbridge, CT

The Industrious Sloth

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Maleah L.
San Jose, CA

Scarlet Macaw

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Nick A.
Morgan Hill, CA

Future Animal Essay

Grades K-12 SemiFinalist

Tatyana W.
Morgan Hill, CA

Future Creatures

Grades K-12 SemiFinalist

Tsinte S.
Smith River, CA

Red-Eyed Tree Frog

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Jurassic Jaguar

Our group chose the Jaguar, also known as the Panthera Onca. One of...

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Armored Giant Anteater

The giant anteater is one of four species of anteaters. They live in...

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The Black Spider Monkey

Ateles paniscus, or the Black Spider Monkey, is often found in...

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The Industrious Sloth

Right now the sloths’ habitat is the tree canopies. They are about...

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Toucan or Toucan't?

Toucan is my favorite bird. Its beak is like a rainbow. Deforestation,...

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Poison Dart Frog

Poison dart frogs are animals that live in the forest floor of the...

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orangutan

I decided that i was gonna do the orangutan becuse it look intresting....

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Red-Eyed Tree Frog

My animal for the Future Creatures challenge is the Red-Eyed Tree Frog....

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Scarlet Macaw

Scarlet Macaw Descriptive Facts. The Scarlet Macaw has beautiful bright...

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Toucans

my animal is a Toucan there are known for there colorfull bill.Toucans...

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Future Creature, Gorilla

I made a picture of a gorilla. With climate changes It will most likely...

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Chameleons

My animal is a chameleon, some facts about chameleons are, they have a...

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Salt And Fresh Water Pandas

My future animal is panda. And in the future due to climate...

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The Komodo Dragon

My animal is the 15 ft long Komodo Dragon it has razor sharp claws that...

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Future Creature, Piranha

My future creature is a piranha. My piranha in the future will be a...

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Ocelot

My future Ocelot will get smaller and it's hair will change from brown...

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future otters changes

I made a brown river Otter that lives in the river it eats fish crabs...

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Black panther in a rain forest

I made a picture of a black panther the first time catching a bunny...

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Capybara Future Creature

The common name of the Capybara is thought to mean "Master of the...

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The ocelot

The rainforest will die due to climate change and all the ocelots will...

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Fossavoda

The fossavoda is my future creation rainforest animal. It’s ancestor is...

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Future Creatures

These are two pictures that are sowing the current state of the...

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Future Scarlet Macaw

My Rain-forest animal is a scarlet macaw. This animal currently can be...

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Future Creatures Essay

The kind of shelter that foxes use are burrows underground. They also...

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Future Creatures

-Toco Toucan- Climate change affects the life of a toucan because...

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Crimson Topaz

The crimson topaz is a species of hummingbird found in areas such as...

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future toucan

the toucan in the future

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Gavin

A picture of a salamander in the present and future.

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Ocelot

Another habitat they could adapt into is a cave, since caves are crazy...

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Baboons

Baboons Habitat Baboons are mostly vegan so if there is not enough...

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future animal

Habitat: If the forest is still in the future then it will dig a lot of...

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Future creatures challenge

During this challenge we had to draw an animal or an insect in the...

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Tuatara - Present & Future

Tuatara in the present and future. I added spots, fangs, long claws,...

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Scarlet Macaw

Physical adaptations that a Scarlet Macaw have that could help them in...

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piranha in the future

Climate change in the Amazon river may cause the river to dry up...

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future creature essay

It will adapt to its surroundings by living around something that they...

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Blue Manakin

Global warming increases temperatures and changes rain patterns in the...

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Common Basilsk

How climate change is going to affect it is it is going to probably...

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Axolotle

It soars the sky and makes nests on top of factories and its smoke...

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Future Tiger

According to scientific observation the jungles are being lessened...

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Future creatures

I drew the present drawing of sloths and the future drawing of the sloth

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Chameleons

There will probably be only cities. So they would have to live on...

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Future Animal Essay

The weather will heat up due to global warming, especially in the...

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future animal

for my animal i did the Boa Constrictor. i the future i made it have...

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Essay

The water is evaporating and the predators would be gone. The animals...

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Future Green Anaconda

When people go to the rainforest, and cut large amounts of it down, it...

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Hayacinth Macaw

They get food by using their beaks, they get around with their wings...

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Radiation Resistant Lobster

Crustaceans are incredibly complex and unique subphylum that have many...

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Monkey modification

For the project we have decided to make a mutation to the species of...

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Snow Leopard Evolution

The Snow leopard is on the best hunters in the tundra area. Many of...

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Iguana

The Iguana is a large, arboreal, tropical American lizard with a spiny...

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