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• Fisheries
  Mating and Breeding
  Fish
  Animals
  Invasive Species
  Wild Animals
   
  

  Horseshoe crab

  The horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is an arthropod that is more closely related to spiders than crabs. Horseshoe crabs possess the rare ability to regrow limbs lost. Limulus has been extensively ... > more
• Fossils
  Environmental Policy
  Extinction
  Ice Ages
  Origin of Life
  Early Climate
   
  

  Cambrian

  The Cambrian is a major division of the geologic timescale that begins about 542 Ma (million years ago) at the end of the Proterozoic eon and ended about 488.3 Ma with the beginning of the Ordovician ... > more
• Geology
  Earthquakes
  Natural Disasters
  Earth Science
  Tsunamis
  Near-Earth Object Impacts
   
  

  Lithosphere

  The lithosphere is the solid outermost shell of a rocky planet. On the Earth, the lithosphere includes the crust and the uppermost layer of the mantle (the upper mantle or lower lithosphere) which is ... > more
• Monkeys
  Endangered Animals
  Mammals
  Apes
  Rainforests
  Zoology
   
  

  Lar Gibbon

  The Lar Gibbon (Hylobates lar), also known as the White-handed Gibbon, is a primate in the Hylobatidae or gibbon family. It is one of the more well-known gibbons and is often seen in ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Sports Medicine
  New Species
  Pests and Parasites
  Pregnancy and Childbirth
   
  

  Nematode

  The roundworms or nematodes are one of the most common phyla of animals. They are ubiquitous in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial environments. Further, there are a great many parasitic forms, ... > more
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Near-Earth Object Impacts
  Atmosphere
  Earth Science
  Geology
  Mars
   
  

  Meteor

  A meteor is the visible path of a meteoroid that enters the Earth's (or another body's) atmosphere, commonly called a shooting star or falling star. A meteor is a meteoroid that has entered the ... > more
• Volcanoes
  Global Warming
  Severe Weather
  Weather
  Geography
  Storms
   

  Year Without a Summer

  The Year Without a Summer, also known as the Poverty Year and Eighteen hundred and froze to death, was 1816, in which severe summer climate abnormalities destroyed crops in Northern Europe, the ... > more
• Evolution
  Evolutionary Biology
  Charles Darwin
  Origin of Life
  Nature
  Biology
   
  

  Evolution

  In biology, evolution is the change in the inherited traits of a population from generation to generation. These traits are the expression of genes that are copied and passed on to offspring during ... > more
• Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Severe Weather
  Weather
  Storms
  Climate
  Ecosystems
   
  

  Labor Day Hurricane of 1935

  The Labor Day Hurricane was a very compact, intense hurricane that formed in the North Atlantic during August 1935. It remains the strongest hurricane on record to have struck the United States, and ... > more
• Weather
  Severe Weather
  Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Climate
  Global Warming
  Geography
   

  Numerical weather prediction

  Numerical weather prediction is the science of predicting the weather using "models" of the atmosphere and computational techniques. Manipulating the huge datasets and performing the complex ... > more

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