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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...t utility vehicle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For th...
6: *[[Diogo de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...fonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
1: ...Italian ship named after Vespucci, see [[Amerigo Vespucci (ship)]]''.
4: '''Amerigo Vespucci''' ([[March 9]], [[1454]] - [[February 22]],...
6: ...:Amerigo_Vespucci.jpg|thumb|200px|right| Amerigo Vespucci]]
8: ...[[Florence]], [[Italy]], as the third child of a respected family. His father was a notary for the Mon...
10: ...instead proposed that the two letters were forgeries written by others of the same period. - Argentina (30219 bytes)
10: official_languages = [[Spanish language|Spanish]]|
11: capital = [[Buenos Aires]] |
13: largest_city = [[Buenos Aires]] |
15: leader_titles = [[President of Argentina|President]]|
16: leader_names = [[Néstor Kirchner]] | - Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
2: ...aurus rex|T. Rex]]'' from the <br /> [[United States Department of the Interior|U.S. Department of the...
16: ...od vessels and cells lining them [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/science/03dinosaur.html]".
18: ...erosaur]]s, and the aquatic [[ichthyosaur]]s, [[plesiosaur]]s, and [[mosasaur]]s.
20: ...ication of [[cladistics]], which rigorously analyzes the relationships between biological organisms, h...
27: ...s chosen to express Owen's awe at the size and majesty of the extinct animals; not out of fear or trep... - Paleontology (5646 bytes)
1: ... [[feces]] ("[[coprolite]]s"), and chemical residues.
5: ... [[ecology]], fields concerned with living creatures and how they interact. [[Palynology]] is the stud...
7: ...tology]], which deals with animals without backbones, or in
8: ...gy]], dealing with fossils of animals with backbones, including fossil hominids ([[paleoanthropology]]...
10: There are many developing specialties such as [[paleoecology]], [[paleobotany]], [[ichn... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...]. Though Magellan himself died in the [[Philippines]] and never returned to Europe, 18 members of the...
5: ...de Magalh㥳, the mayor of the town, and Alda de Mesquita, Magellan had two siblings: his brother Diog...
7: ..., Magellan continued his education, becoming interested in [[geography]] and [[astronomy]]. Some specu...
9: ... conquering the [[Muslim]] city of [[Kilwa]] in present-day [[Tanzania]].
11: Magellan next journeyed to the [[East Indies]] in [[1506]], taking part in expeditions to the ... - Glacier (6999 bytes)
1: ... 8 km (5 mile) route at the foot of Austria's highest mountain, the [[Grossglockner]].]]
3: ...he [[Siachen glacier]] in the Himalaya is the largest alpine glacier in the world. Glaciers are found ...
5: ... of the water. The [[Hubbard Glacier]] is the longest tidewater glacier in [[Alaska]] and has a calvin...
7: ...y|U-shaped valley]]s and [[cirque (landform)|cirques]] ([[cwm]]s) at their heads.
11: ...known as [[crevasse]]s as they flex. These crevasses make travel over glaciers dangerous. Glacial melt... - Andes (13210 bytes)
1: {{Otherusesabout|the mountain system in South America}}
2: ...dies.png|thumb|200px|right|The Andes form the longest mountain chain in the world.]]
3: ...mage:Andes Chile Argentina.jpg|thumb|300px|The Andes between [[Chile]] and [[Argentina]]]]
4: ...Andesplane.jpg|thumb|300px|Plane's view of the Andes, Peru.]]
5: ...g, 500 km (300 miles) wide in some parts (widest between 18° to 20°S latitude), and of an avera... - Llama (12988 bytes)
10: {{Taxobox_species_entry | taxon = '''''L. glama'''''}}
14: ... [[South America]]. The term ''llama'' is sometimes used more broadly, to indicate any of the four cl...
16: ...e larger and have ovular heads instead of round ones. The main difference between llamas and [[camel]]...
19: ...cular species or variety of the group, and sometimes used in a generic sense to cover the whole. Llama...
22: ...ama.jpg|left|250px|thumbnail|A [[domestication|domesticated]] llama]] - Megatherium (3307 bytes)
12: ... like a modern anteater, it had to walk on the sides of its feet. Amazingly, its footprints show that ...
14: ...s hunting in a portion of his country, known as [[Patagonia]], when a large, unknown creature covered with lo...
16: ...about hunting such a large creature in ancient times.
18: ...in burrows it dug with its large claws. The natives also found it difficult to get their arrows to pe...
20: ...ators. It seemed likely that it would have also resisted native arrows, along with Lista's bullets. - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
1: ...time as the publication of ''[[The Origin of Species]]''.]]
2: '''Charles Robert Darwin''' ([[12 February]] [[1809]]–...
4: ... reaction, he confided only in close friends and researched to meet anticipated objections, but in [[1...
6: ... Selection in Relation to Sex]]'' and ''[[The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals]]''. His l...
8: ...ion of Darwin's pre-eminence, he was buried in [[Westminster Abbey]], close to [[Sir William Herschel]... - Dusky Dolphins (3923 bytes)
12: {{Taxobox_species_entry | taxon = '''''L. obscurus'''''}}
17: ...cientific consenus is that they are distinct species.
19: ==Physical description==
20: ...The throat and belly are white. There are two blazes of white colour running back on the body from the...
23: ...00 individuals. Duskys can move over great distances (one individual had a confirmed range of 780kn). ... - Right Whales (11436 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = Right Whales}}<br>{{StatusSeeText}}
13: ...ubdivision | color = pink | plural_taxon = [[Species]]}}
22: ...|genera]]: '''''Eubalaena''''' — three species of right whale (which are discussed below), and '...
25: ...l waters to make contact with the other (sub)species and (inter)breed; their thick layers of insulatin...
27: ...ions are also distinct, and that the Pacific species (now known as the Pacific Northern Right Whale), ... - Eocene (7034 bytes)
1: ...the epoch are well identified, but their exact dates are slightly uncertain.
8: ...bdivisions. The Faunal stages from youngest to oldest are:
19: | [[Ypresian]]
24: ...provoked a sharp extinction event that distinguishes Eocene [[fauna]] from the ecosystems of the [[Pal...
26: [[Climate]]s remained warm through the rest of the Eocene, although slow global cooling, whi...
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