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Roundup of Recent Science Discoveries, 1997

Was Three Company? Past evidence uncovered in Israel and France has shown that Neanderthals lived on Earth at the same time as modern Homo sapiens. Neanderthals were found to have lived about 34,…

Roundup of Recent Science Discoveries, 2001

The Fog at the Beginning of the Universe A team of astronomers from the California Institute of Technology, led by S. George Djorgovski, may have glimpsed the dawn of our universe. In Aug. 2001,…

DK Nature: Fossils

HOW ARE FOSSILS FORMED? WHAT DO FOSSILS SHOW US? PALEONTOLOGYFIND OUT MOREFossils are the ancient remains of living things preserved in rocks. They are usually formed from hard animal or plant…

Word Searches

Find the hidden words Want to have fun while working out your brain? Expand your vocabulary with our fun word searches! Mythical Creature Word Search Spanish Words Search Dinosaur Word Search…

Mesozoic era

(Encyclopedia) Mesozoic eraMesozoic eramĕzˌəzōˈĭk [key] [Gr.,=middle life], major division of geologic time (see Geologic Timescale, tablegeologic timescale, table) from 65 to 225 million years ago.…

Math & Science

Biology Six Kingdoms of Life The Body's Systems Encyclopedia: Cells More… Earth Sciences Encyclopedia: Earth Sciences Ecology Paleontology More… Environment…

bird

(Encyclopedia) CE5 General anatomy of a bird bird, warm-blooded, egg-laying, vertebrate animal having its body covered with feathers and its forelimbs modified into wings, which are used by most…

Marsh, Othniel Charles

(Encyclopedia) Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831–99, American paleontologist, b. Lockport, N.Y., grad. Yale, 1860. He studied abroad, and from 1866 served at Yale as the first professor of paleontology…

Recent Discoveries

Recent Discoveries: Did Cosmic Dust Doom the Dinosaurs? A controversial study by researchers at the University of Florida and Carnegie Institution theorizes that space dust in Earth's…