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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
• Dinosaurs
  Paleontology
  Extinction
  Tyrannosaurus Rex
  Early Birds
  Fossils
   
  

  Dinosaur

  Dinosaurs were vertebrate animals that dominated terrestrial ecosystems for over 160 million years, first appearing approximately 230 million years ago. At the end of the Cretaceous Period, 65 ... > more
• Dinosaurs
  Paleontology
  Tyrannosaurus Rex
  Fossils
  Early Mammals
  Archaeology
   
  

  Paralititan

  Paralititan stromeri was a giant titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur discovered in coastal deposits in the Upper Cretaceous Bahariya Formation of Egypt. The fossil represents the first tetrapod reported ... > more
• Volcanoes
  Natural Disasters
  Sports Science
  Geology
  Global Warming
  Early Climate
   
  

  Volcano

  A volcano is an opening (or rupture) in the Earth's surface or crust, which allows hot, molten rock, ash, and gases to escape from deep below the surface. Volcanic activity involving the extrusion of ... > more
• Extinction
  Dinosaurs
  Endangered Animals
  Endangered Plants
  Nature
  Fossils
   
  

  Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event

  The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event was a period of massive extinction of species, about 65.5 million years ago. It corresponds to the end of the Cretaceous Period and the beginning of the ... > more
• Forensic Research
  Forensics
  Biometric
  Sports Medicine
  Sports Science
  Health Policy
   
  

  Forensics

  Forensic science (often shortened to forensics) is the application of a broad spectrum of sciences to answer questions of interest to the legal system. This may be in relation to a crime or to a ... > more
• Volcanoes
  Natural Disasters
  Fossils
  Origin of Life
  Earthquakes
  Earth Science
   

  Supervolcano

  A supervolcano refers to a volcano that produces the largest and most voluminous kinds of eruption on Earth. The actual explosivity of these eruptions varies, but the sheer volume of extruded magma ... > more
• Dinosaurs
  Paleontology
  Fossils
  Early Birds
  Tyrannosaurus Rex
  Early Mammals
   
  

  Velociraptor

  Velociraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that existed approximately 83 to 70 million years ago during the later part of the Cretaceous Period. There is only one universally ... > more
• Earth Science
  Environmental Issues
  Global Warming
  Geomagnetic Storms
  Near-Earth Object Impacts
  Anthropology
   

  End of civilization

  The end of civilization or the end of the world are phrases used in reference to human extinction scenarios, doomsday events, and related hazards which occur on a global ... > more
• Fossils
  Early Mammals
  Origin of Life
  Evolution
  Dinosaurs
  Paleontology
   
  

  Smilodon

  Smilodon means knife tooth, an entirely appropriate name given its enormous fangs. The smilodon species are also known as Saber-Toothed Cats (which is inaccurate because there are other, unrelated ... > more

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