Dinosaur Articles

• Early Humans
  Human Evolution
  Anthropology
  Fossils
  Cultures
  Evolution
   
  

  Homo habilis

  Homo habilis ("handy man", "skillful person") is a species of the genus Homo, which lived from approximately 2.5 million to 1.8 million years ago at the beginning of the Pleistocene. The definition ... > 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
• Charles Darwin
  Evolution
  Origin of Life
  Archaeology
  Fossils
  Anthropology
   
  

  Pelycosaur

  The pelycosaurs were smallish to large (up to 3 meters or more) primitive Late Paleozoic synapsid reptiles. They appeared during the Late Carboniferous and reached their acme in the early part of the ... > more
• Archaeology
  Ancient Civilizations
  Cultures
  Human Evolution
  Fossils
  Early Climate
   
  

  Cave painting

  Cave or rock paintings are paintings painted on cave or rock walls and ceilings, usually dating to prehistoric times. Rock paintings have been made since the Upper Paleolithic, 40,000 years ago. They ... > 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
• Geography
  Geology
  Earth Science
  Earthquakes
  Oceanography
  Drought Research
   
  

  Pangaea

  Pangaea or Pangea is the name given to the supercontinent that existed during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras, before the process of plate tectonics separated each of the component continents into ... > more
• Apes
  Early Humans
  Human Evolution
  Anthropology
  New Species
  Mammals
   
  

  Hominidae

  The hominids are the members of the biological family Hominidae (the great apes), which includes humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. The exact criteria for membership in the Homininae are ... > more
• Early Climate
  Climate
  Ice Ages
  Global Warming
  Geology
  Environmental Issues
   
  

  Paleoclimatology

  Paleoclimatology is the study of climate change taken on the scale of the entire history of the earth. Glaciers are a widely employed instrument in paleoclimatology. The ice in glaciers has hardened ... > more
• Global Warming
  Oceanography
  Early Climate
  El Nino and La Nina
  Climate
  Geology
   
  

  Sequence stratigraphy

  Sequence stratigraphy is a relatively new branch of geology that attempts to link prehistoric sea-level changes to sedimentary deposits. The 'sequence' part of the name refers to cyclic sedimentary ... > more
• Early Humans
  Human Evolution
  Anthropology
  Evolution
  Fossils
  Cultures
   
  

  Homo rudolfensis

  Homo rudolfensis is a fossil hominin species originally proposed in 1986 by V. P. Alexeev for the specimen Skull 1470 (KNM ER 1470). Originally thought to be a member of the species Homo habilis, the ... > more

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