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• Early Mammals
  Paleontology
  Fossils
  Early Climate
  Origin of Life
  Human Evolution
   
  

  Mammoth

  A mammoth is any of a number of an extinct genus of elephant, often with long curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair. They lived during the Pleistocene epoch from 1.6 million ... > more
• Early Humans
  Human Evolution
  Anthropology
  Fossils
  Evolution
  Cultures
   

  Homo heidelbergensis

  Homo heidelbergensis ("Heidelberg Man") is an extinct, potentially distinct species of the genus Homo and may be the direct ancestor of Homo neanderthalensis in Europe. According to the "Recent Out ... > 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
• Dinosaurs
  New Species
  Paleontology
  Fossils
  Extinction
  Apes
   
  

  Hadrosaurid

  Hadrosaurids or duck-billed dinosaurs are members of the superfamily Hadrosauroidea, and include ornithopods such as Edmontosaurus and Parasaurolophus. They were common herbivores in the Upper ... > 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
• Dinosaurs
  Fish
  Extinction
  Evolutionary Biology
  Marine Biology
  Evolution
   
  

  Ichthyosaur

  Ichthyosaurs were giant marine reptiles that resemble a dolphin with large teeth. They lived during a large part of the Mesozoic era, and appeared about 250 million years ago (Ma), slightly earlier ... > more
• Dinosaurs
  Fossils
  Paleontology
  Tyrannosaurus Rex
  Evolution
  Human Evolution
   
  

  Albertosaurus

  Albertosaurus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, more than 70 million years ... > 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
• Fossils
  Origin of Life
  Dinosaurs
  Early Climate
  Paleontology
  Human Evolution
   
  

  Gondwana

  The southern supercontinent Gondwana (originally Gondwanaland) included most of the landmasses which make up today's continents of the southern hemisphere, including Antarctica, South America, ... > more
• Dinosaurs
  Early Birds
  Extinction
  New Species
  Fossils
  Birds
   
  

  Pterosaur

  Pterosaurs, "winged lizards," often referred to as "pterodactyls" were flying reptiles of the clade Pterosauria. They existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous period (228 to 65 ... > more

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