As smart as a cassowary?Brain to body weightDinosaur brain power relative to a crocodile’sHow intelligent were dinosaurs? It is difficult to know how smart dinosaurs were because their brains…
(Encyclopedia) sunbird, common name for tropical, Old World birds, including more than one hundred species in the family Nectariniidae. Like the unrelated New World hummingbirds, to which sunbirds…
(Encyclopedia) SanSansăn [key], people of SW Africa (mainly Botswana, Namibia, Angola, and South Africa), consisting of several groups and numbering about 100,000 in all. They are generally short in…
(Encyclopedia) Story, Joseph, 1779–1845, American jurist, associate justice of the Supreme Court (1811–45), b. Marblehead, Mass. Admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1801, he practiced law in Salem…
Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon 1707–1788Georges Cuvier 1769–1832Alexandre Brongniart 1770–1847William Buckland 1784–1856Gideon Mantell 1790–1852Mary Anning 1799–1847Richard Owen 1804–…
WHAT FEATURES DO ARTHROPODS SHARE? WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CENTIPEDE AND A MILLIPEDE? DO ALL CENTIPEDES HAVE ONE HUNDRED LEGS? ARTHROPOD CLASSIFICATIONEXOSKELETONCentipedes, millipedes…
HOW DID EARLY AMERICANS LIVE? HOW DID EARLY AMERICANS HONOR THEIR GODS? WHICH METALS DID EARLY AMERICANS TREASURE? PUEBLOSMOUND BUILDERSFIND OUT MOREThe first Americans crossed the land bridge that…
WHAT FEATURES DO MOLLUSKS HAVE IN COMMON? HOW DO MOLLUSKS FEED? HOW DO MOLLUSKS REPRODUCE? MOLLUSK CLASSIFICATIONSHELLSFIND OUT MORESoft-bodied invertebrates, mollusks include slugs, snails,…
(Encyclopedia) Orwell, George, pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair, 1903–50, British novelist and essayist, b. Bengal, India. He is best remembered for his scathingly satirical and frighteningly political…
