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November 12, 2019 30-Million-Year Fossil Suggests Monkeys and Apes ‚Moved‘ in Opposite
Use these free online resources to further explore themes presented in the Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries exhibition.
Educator Materials Make Your Own Liaoning Diorama Re-create the 130-million-year-old
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from the Cambrian illuminate unique predator-prey interactions in the ocean 517 million
Two hundred years ago, farm boy Pliny Moody was plowing a Massachusetts field. Uncovering some mysterious fossil tracks, the 14-year-old showed them to family and friends. Others soon began collecting
Two hundred million years ago New England was a perfect environment for track preservation
The Zapata peninsula contains the largest and most important wetlands in the Caribbean, making its conservation a top priority.
Covering 1.5 million acres (6,000 square km), the immense Zapata Biosphere Reserve
The family of dinosaurs known as stegosaurs are well known for the two rows of bony plates along their backs. Researchers once thought these plates helped protect the animal from attack. But the plate
HEIGHT: 4 meters (12 feet) WEIGHT: up to 2 tons Food: plants When it lived: 150 million
Working at home one or more days a week if possible reduces emissions if you normally drive or take mass transit to work.
offices to set the air conditioning at 28°C (82°F)—cutting CO2 emissions by over 1 million
In the ancient Liaoning forest, pieces of plants fell into the lake, sank to the bottom, were buried and eventually became fossils. In recent years researchers have found enough fossil plants to re-cr
semiarid environment, suggesting that the climate in this part of eastern Asia 130 million
Fossil bone is a code that records an animal’s biology in microscopic detail; cracking that code will be among the greatest challenges of 21st-century paleontology.
pro-to-ser-uh-TOPS-see-uns" Size: N/A this a variable group Food: plants When they lived: 80-85 million
As temperature rises, more water evaporates from the ocean, transferring energy and water vapor to the atmosphere.
Fourteen million people were left homeless, and damages totaled more than $20 billion
