(Encyclopedia) Royal Society, oldest scientific organization in Great Britain and one of the oldest in Europe. It was founded in 1660 by a group of learned men in London who met to promote scientific…
Biographies of U.S. representatives and senators from Vermont Member Name Birth-Death AIKEN, George David 1892-1984 ALLEN, Heman (of Colchester) 1779-1852…
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Land mammal: African elephants weigh up to 14,000 pounds and can eat as much as 600 pounds of food a day! Their trunks contain as many as 100,000 different muscles.
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Tree-top browserBalancing actLow browserVegetarian mouthsCretaceous food chainThroughout the dinosaur era, communities of dinosaurs were made up of plant-eaters (herbivores) and meat-eaters (…
ON THE ALERTTOUCH-SENSITIVE FEELERSVISIONHEARINGSMELLFIND OUT MORETo find food, mate, avoid danger, and communicate, animals rely on information gathered by their senses. Information is…
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Adaptationthe response of a living organism to changes in its environment.Agea unit of geological time, which is characterized by some feature (like an Ice Age).Ambera yellowish, fossilized tree…
