Prehistoric Mammal Articles

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  Extinction

  In biology and ecology, extinction is the cessation of existence of a species or group of taxa, reducing biodiversity. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last ... > more
• Early Birds
  Dinosaurs
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  Tyrannosaurus Rex
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  Feathered dinosaurs

  The realization that dinosaurs are closely related to birds raised the obvious possibility that some dinosaurs had feathers. Fossils of Archaeopteryx include well-preserved feathers, but it was not ... > more
• Apes
  Human Evolution
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  Rainforests
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  Chimpanzee

  Chimpanzee, often shortened to chimp, is the common name for the two extant species in the genus Pan. The better known chimpanzee is Pan troglodytes, the Common Chimpanzee, living primarily in West, ... > more
• Dinosaurs
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  Tyrannosaurus Rex
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  Early Mammals
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  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
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  Cretaceous

  The Cretaceous period is one of the major divisions of the geologic timescale, reaching from the end of the Jurassic period, about 146 million years ago (Ma), to the beginning of the Paleocene epoch ... > more
• Early Humans
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  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
• Dinosaurs
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  Tyrannosaurus Rex
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  Triceratops

  Triceratops, meaning "three-horned face", because it had three horns was a ceratopsid herbivorous dinosaur genus from the Latest Cretaceous period of what is now North America. It lived at around the ... > more
• Birds
  Early Birds
  Bird Flu Research
  Zoology
  New Species
  Animals
   
  

  Bird

  Birds are bipedal, warm-blooded, oviparous vertebrates characterized primarily by feathers, forelimbs modified as wings, and hollow bones. Birds range in size from the tiny hummingbirds to the huge ... > more
• Early Humans
  Human Evolution
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  Charles Darwin
   
  

  Rhodesian Man

  Rhodesian Man (Homo rhodesiensis) is a hominin fossil that was described from a cranium found in an iron and zinc mine in Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia) in 1921 by Tom Zwiglaar, a Swiss miner. ... > more
• Apes
  Human Evolution
  Early Humans
  Sports Medicine
  Endangered Animals
  Healthy Aging
   
  

  Common Chimpanzee

  The Common Chimpanzee, also known as the Robust Chimpanzee, is a great ape. Colloquially, it is often called the chimpanzee (or simply "chimp"), though technically this term refers to both species in ... > more

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