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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...sion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
21: ...tish Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
30: ...7]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central...
35: *[[Vitus Bering]]
36: *[[Vittorio Bottego]] (1860,1897), Italian explorer of the [[Giuba]] region in north-ea... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
1: :''For the Italian ship named after Vespucci, see [[Amerigo Ves...
4: ...454]] - [[February 22]], [[1512]]) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[merchant]] and [[cartography|cartographe...
8: Amerigo Vespucci was born in [[Florence]], [[Italy]], as the third child of a respected family. H...
10: ...ad proposed that the two letters were forgeries written by others of the same period.
12: ... [[Naming of America]].) ''Amerigo'' itself is an Italian form of ''[[Haimirich]]'' (in English, Henry... - Argentina (30219 bytes)
11: capital = [[Buenos Aires]] |
13: largest_city = [[Buenos Aires]] |
15: leader_titles = [[President of Argentina|President]]|
18: area_magnitude = 1_E12 |
26: population_density = 14 | - Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
2: ...[Tyrannosaurus rex|T. Rex]]'' from the <br /> [[United States Department of the Interior|U.S. Departme...
7: ...y | taxon = '''Dinosauria'''}}<br>{{Taxobox_authority | author = [[Richard Owen|Owen]] | date = [[1842...
13: [[Ornithischia]]<br/>
16: ...zed [[bone]]s, [[feces]], [[trackway]]s, [[gastrolith]]s, [[feather]]s, impressions of skin and intern...
20: ..., with major new discoveries in previously unexploited regions, including [[South America]], [[Madagas... - Paleontology (5646 bytes)
1: ...s, cast off parts, fossilized [[feces]] ("[[coprolite]]s"), and chemical residues.
5: ..., [[zoology]], and [[ecology]], fields concerned with living creatures and how they interact. [[Palyno...
7: ...tebrate paleontology]], which deals with animals without backbones, or in
8: ... paleontology]], dealing with fossils of animals with backbones, including fossil hominids ([[paleoant...
12: ...study include the correlation of [[rock strata]] with their [[geologic ages]] and the study of [[evolu... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ... [[Pacific Ocean]], and the first to lead an expedition for the purpose of [[circumnavigation|circumna...
5: ...agalh㥳, the mayor of the town, and Alda de Mesquita, Magellan had two siblings: his brother Diogo de...
7: ...ere his brother had gone two years before. Here, with his cousin Francisco Serrano, Magellan continued...
9: ...eida's party attacked, conquering the [[Muslim]] city of [[Kilwa]] in present-day [[Tanzania]].
11: ...n]]. However, after secretly sailing a ship east without permission, he lost his command and was force... - Glacier (6999 bytes)
1: ...px|Austria's longest glacier, the Pasterze, winds its 8 km (5 mile) route at the foot of Austria's hig...
3: ...'''continental glaciers''', which are associated with [[ice age]]s and can cover large areas of contin...
7: Geologic features associated with glaciers include end, lateral and medial [[morai...
9: [[Image:Glacier_Alaska.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Exit Glacier, Alaska, Kenai Fjords National Park]]
11: ...r source. The upper layers of glaciers are more brittle, and often form deep cracks known as [[crevass... - Andes (13210 bytes)
5: ...de in some parts (widest between 18° to 20°S latitude), and of an average height of about 4,000 m (1...
6: ...tion, parallel with the coast, being broken up at its beginning into a number of islands and afterward...
8: ...he point on the Earth's surface most distant from its center, because of the [[equatorial bulge]]. The...
12: ...he descending Nazca plate is young and buoyant [[lithosphere]], which resists subduction, causing a lo...
13: ...on of the Andes began in the [[Jurassic]] period. It was during the [[Cretaceous]] Period that the And... - Llama (12988 bytes)
14: ...]]n branch of the family [[Camelidae]]: the llama itself, the [[vicu, [[alpaca]], and [[guanaco]].
24: ... in a central position between them, borrowing as it were some characters from each, but in others sho...
26: ... family, and upon its relations to other mammals. It is now known that llamas at one time were not con...
27: ...been abundantly found in the [[Pleistocene]] deposits of the region of the [[Rocky Mountains]], and in...
29: ...hanges, coinciding with the antiquity of the deposits in which they are found, have been traced from t... - Megatherium (3307 bytes)
12: ...its footprints show that it walked mainly on just its hind legs.
14: ...agonia]], when a large, unknown creature covered with long hair trotted past his party. To Lista, the...
16: ...he legends he had collected from natives in the [[Patagonia]] region about hunting such a large creature in a...
18: ...dug with its large claws. The natives also found it difficult to get their arrows to penetrate the an...
20: ...it would have also resisted native arrows, along with Lista's bullets. - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
2: ...h;[[19 April]] [[1882]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[natural history|naturalist]] who achieved ...
4: ...ying first medicine, then [[theology]], at university. Five years on [[the Voyage of the Beagle]] brou...
8: In a national recognition of Darwin's pre-eminence, he was buried in [[W...
15: ..., and of [[Josiah Wedgwood]], a family of the [[Unitarian]] church. ''See also [[Darwin -- Wedgwood fa...
17: ...nishing school, Darwin went to [[Edinburgh University]] in [[1825]] to study medicine. - Dusky Dolphins (3923 bytes)
17: ...osely [[genetics|genetically]] to the [[Pacific White-sided Dolphin]], although current scientific con...
20: ... the tail. Dusky Dolphins may easily be confused with [[Peale's Dolphin]]s when observed at sea.
23: ...dividual had a confirmed range of 780kn). However it is not believed that they follow a migatory patte...
26: ...ishing industry. However in Peruvian waters in addition to accidental catches there is continuing deli...
28: ... to watching Duskys or watch them in combination with tours aimed at watching [[Sperm Whale]]s. - Right Whales (11436 bytes)
10: ... | taxon = '''Balaenidae'''}}<br/>{{Taxobox authority | author = [[John Edward Gray|Gray]] | date = 18...
25: ...ed; their thick layers of insulating blubber make it impossible for them to shed internal heat in trop...
27: ...losely allied with the Southern Right Whale than with the Atlantic Northern Right Whale.
29: ...ah marine biologists revealed that their hosts split into three species 5-6 million years ago, and tha...
42: ...''True Whale'''; the Right Whale." In Portuguese, it is called " Baleia Franca ". - Eocene (7034 bytes)
1: ...and in what is now [[Chesapeake Bay]]. Still, as with other other [[geologic period]]s, the [[Stratum|...
24: ...rapid and intense warming (up to 7�C at high latitudes) that lasted less than 100,000 years [http://...
29: ...[[plate tectonics|drift]] toward their present positions.
31: ...g global temperatures high. But when Australia split from the southern continent around 45 mya, the wa...
37: ...Mediterranean]], and created another shallow sea with island [[archipelago]]s to the north. Though the...
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