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• Early Humans
  Human Evolution
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  Peking Man

  Peking Man (sometimes now called Beijing Man), also called Sinanthropus pekinensis (currently Homo erectus pekinensis), is an example of Homo erectus. The remains were first discovered in 1923-27 ... > 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
• 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
• Extinction
  Nature
  Endangered Plants
  Endangered Animals
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  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
• Fossils
  Organic Chemistry
  Sports Science
  Graphene
  Early Climate
  Origin of Life
   
  

  Radiocarbon dating

  Radiocarbon dating is a radiometric dating method that uses the naturally occurring isotope carbon-14 to determine the age of carbonaceous materials up to ca 60,000 years. Within archaeology it is ... > more
• Dinosaurs
  New Species
  Fossils
  Extinction
  Paleontology
  Early Mammals
   
  

  Brachiosaurus

  The Brachiosaurus is a famous dinosaur that lived during the Jurassic period. One of the largest ever dinosaurs to walk the earth, it has become a famous animal synonymous with dinosaurs, and is ... > more
• Early Mammals
  Dinosaurs
  Paleontology
  Fossils
  Origin of Life
  Early Climate
   
  

  Mastodon

  Mastodons or Mastodonts are members of an extinct genus Mammut of the order Proboscidea; they resembled, but were distinct from, the woolly mammoth. While mastodons were furry like woolly mammoths, ... > more
• Human Evolution
  Early Humans
  Anthropology
  Cultures
  Fossils
  Evolution
   
  

  Neanderthal

  The Neanderthal or Neandertal was a species of Homo (Homo (sapiens) neanderthalensis) that inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia from about 230,000 to 29,000 years ago, during the Middle ... > more
• New Species
  Apes
  Animals
  Life Sciences
  Wild Animals
  Developmental Biology
   

  Priapulida

  Priapulida are a phylum of marine worms with an extensible spiny proboscis. Priapulid fossils are known at least as far back as the Middle Cambrian. Their nearest relatives are probably Kinorhyncha ... > more
• Dinosaurs
  New Species
  Tyrannosaurus Rex
  Paleontology
  Nature
  Fossils
   
  

  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

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