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• Ancient Civilizations
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  Archaeology

  Archaeology, archeology, or archæology is the science that studies human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including ... > more
• Climate
  Global Warming
  Early Climate
  Ice Ages
  Environmental Issues
  Environmental Policy
   
  

  Temperature record of the past 1000 years

  The temperature record of the past 1000 years describes the reconstruction of temperature for the last 1000 years on the Northern Hemisphere. A reconstruction is needed because a reliable surface ... > 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
• Ancient Civilizations
  Archaeology
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  Human Evolution
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  Cultures
   
  

  Mummy

  A mummy is a corpse whose skin and dried flesh have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold or dryness, or airlessness. The best-known mummies are those ... > more
• Ancient Civilizations
  Archaeology
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  Dead Sea scrolls

  The Dead Sea Scrolls comprise roughly 600 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ... > more
• Charles Darwin
  Evolution
  Origin of Life
  Archaeology
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  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
• Extinction
  Nature
  Endangered Plants
  Endangered Animals
  Dinosaurs
  Fossils
   
  

  Permian-Triassic extinction event

  The Permian-Triassic (P-T or PT) extinction event, sometimes informally called the Great Dying, was an extinction event that occurred approximately 251.0 million years ago (mya), forming the boundary ... > more
• Cultures
  Ancient Civilizations
  Anthropology
  Archaeology
  Human Evolution
  Lost Treasures
   
  

  Rosetta Stone

  The Rosetta Stone is a dark grey-pinkish granite stone (often incorrectly identified as basalt) with writing on it in two languages, Egyptian and Greek, using three scripts, Hieroglyphic, Demotic ... > more
• Dinosaurs
  New Species
  Paleontology
  Nature
  Extinction
  Animals
   
  

  Stegosaurus

  Stegosaurus, meaning "plated lizard", because of the plates on its back was a genus of large herbivorous dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic of North America. It is among the most easily identifiable ... > 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

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