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• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Breastfeeding
  Sports Medicine
  Women's Health
  Gynecology
   
  

  Mammary gland

  Mammary glands are the organs that, in the female mammal, produce milk for the sustenance of the young. These exocrine glands are enlarged and modified sweat glands and are the characteristic of ... > more
• Dolphins and Whales
  Animals
  Mammals
  Sea Life
  Endangered Animals
  Marine Biology
   
  

  Whale

  Whales are the largest species of exclusively aquatic mammals, members of the order Cetacea. Like all mammals, whales breathe air into lungs, are warm-blooded, feed their young milk from mammary ... > more
• Pollution
  Environmental Issues
  Soil Types
  Molecular Biology
  Nature
  Microbiology
   
  

  Decomposition

  Decomposition is a phenomenon common in the sciences of biology and chemistry. In biology, decomposition refers to the reduction of the body of a formerly living organism into simpler forms of ... > more
• Marine Biology
  Animals
  Sea Life
  Agriculture and Food
  New Species
  Endangered Plants
   
  

  Gastropod shell

  The gastropod shell is an animal shell which is part of the body of a gastropod or snail. It is an external skeleton or exoskeleton, which serves not only for muscle attachment, but also for ... > more
• Frogs and Reptiles
  New Species
  Animals
  Wild Animals
  Nature
  Extinction
   
  

  Crotalinae

  Pit vipers, like the pitless vipers, are highly venomous; the western diamondback rattlesnake is responsible for the majority of snakebite deaths in North ... > more
• Endangered Plants
  Botany
  Veterinary Medicine
  Frogs and Reptiles
  Sports Medicine
  Invasive Species
   
  

  Poison Sumac

  Poison Sumac (Toxicodendron vernix or Rhus vernix) is a woody shrub growing to 3 m tall. All parts of the plant contain a toxic resin called urushiol that causes skin and mucous membrane irritation ... > more
• Insects (including Butterflies)
  Agriculture and Food
  Mating and Breeding
  Animals
  Invasive Species
  New Species
   
  

  Bee

  Bees are flying insects, closely related to wasps and ants. There are approximately 20,000 species of bees, and they may be found on every continent except Antarctica. Bees are adapted for feeding ... > more
• Developmental Biology
  Pregnancy and Childbirth
  Stem Cells
  Molecular Biology
  Cell Biology
  Healthy Aging
   
  

  Mammalian embryogenesis

  Mammalian embryogenesis is the process of cell division and cellular differentiation which leads to the development of a mammalian embryo. A mammal develops from a single cell called a zygote, which ... > more
• Fossils
  Geography
  Geology
  Origin of Life
  Extinction
  Environmental Policy
   

  Paleozoic

  The Paleozoic Era is a major division of the geologic timescale, one of four geologic eras. The Paleozoic includes six geologic periods; from oldest to youngest -- the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, ... > more
• Early Humans
  Human Evolution
  Anthropology
  Evolution
  Intelligence
  Evolutionary Biology
   

  Hominid intelligence

  The nature and origins of hominid intelligence is a much-studied and much-debated topic, of natural interest to humans as the most successful and intelligent hominid species. There is no universally ... > more

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