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- Mandrills (3466 bytes)
12: {{Taxobox_section_binomial | color = pink | binomial_name = Mandrillus sphinx | author = [[Frederi...
17: ... about half as much. They grow to be about half a meter long (20 inches) and can survive up to 25 years i...
27: ...arger prey, it is well adapted to fighting and is not to be provoked.
31: ...the air. The male will then make little courtship noises, baring his teeth and vocalizing softly. If t... - Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat (9097 bytes)
2: ...x|Wombat in the snow]] | caption = Wombat in the snow}}
20: ...evidence of their passage, treating fences as a minor inconvenience to be gone through or under. Womba...
22: ...ved sometime between 55 and 26 million years ago (no useful fossil record has yet been found for this ...
24: ...king around 14 days to complete digestion, and do not move quickly often. When required, however, they...
28: ...her about and [[Breastfeeding|breast-feeds]] for another year. - Turtles, Tortoises, and Terrapins (8143 bytes)
13: ... About 300 species are alive today. Turtles are now highly endangered, largely due to beach developm...
19: ...e]]s ([[forest]] and [[jungle]] species) to two [[meter]]s (the [[leatherback turtle]] and the [[Galapago...
21: ...The oldest tortoise on record is [[Tui Malila]], known to have lived at least 188 years.
23: ...rotein]] than do [[bird]] eggs, such that it will not coagulate when cooked. Turtle eggs prepared to ...
29: ... in the late [[Permian]] period, except procolophonoids and possibly the precursors of the testudines ... - Water Dragons (1773 bytes)
17: ... of that species will measure about three feet (1 meter) total length and thus requires a fairly large en... - Wombats (7860 bytes)
2: ...x|Wombat in the snow]] | caption = Wombat in the snow}}
14: {{Taxobox_section_binomial | color = pink | binomial_name = Vombatus ursinus | author = [[George S...
17: ...evidence of their passage, treating fences as a minor inconvenience to be gone through or under. Womba...
19: ...ved sometime between 55 and 26 million years ago (no useful fossil record has yet been found for this ...
21: ...king around 14 days to complete digestion, and do not move quickly often. When required, however, they... - Mari, Syria (5848 bytes)
8: ...od 1939-1951). Less than half of the 1000 by 600 meter area of Mari has been uncovered as of 2005. Alth...
16: ... building materials such as timber and stone from northern Syria, and these materials had to go throug...
20: ...ortance in the region and the city was reduced to no more than a small village. Historians are divide...
24: ...East and provided more than 500 new place names, enough to redraw or even draw up the geographical map...
28: ...yed again around 1759 BCE by Hammurabi. This is known from the numerous state archives tablets that r... - Potter's wheel (2116 bytes)
13: ... variation had developed with a turntable about a meter above the floor, connected by a long [[axle]] to ...
15: ...ly known throughout the [[Old World]], but was unknown in the [[New World]] in [[Pre-Columbian]] times...
17: ...powered ones are still in use. Motorization does not significantly change the amount of skill needed ... - Maya (24836 bytes)
1: ... '''Maya''' are people of southern [[Mexico]] and northern [[Central America]] ([[Guatemala]], [[Beliz...
11: ...f numerous independent [[city-state]]s. The most notable monuments are the pyramids they built in the...
27: ... existing on the flat [[limestone]] plains of the northern Yucatan grew into great sprawling municipal...
29: ...ral resources such as fresh-water wells, or ''[[cenotes]]'', the city grew by connecting great plazas ...
31: ... this ritual center were the structures of lesser nobles, smaller temples, and individual shrines: the... - Kalakmul (3483 bytes)
4: ...ze]], to the south with [[Guatemala]], and to the north and west with other municipalities in the stat...
13: ..."Kingdom of the Snake", which first arose further north but built Calakmul into a [[Late Classic Era]]...
15: ...argest [[Classic Era]] [[Maya]]n temple platform known. Many of the city's monuments and structures ar...
17: ...y [[William Folan]] between 1984 and 1994, and is now the subject of a large-scale project of the [[Na...
19: ===Known rulers of Calakmul=== - Handball (6138 bytes)
1: '''Team handball''' (also known as '''field handball''' or '''Olympic handball'...
7: ...also a dashed near-semicircular line that is nine meters away from the goal.
9: ... at the goal, with only one attacker on the seven-meter line and the defending goalkeeper involved.
15: ...he tie-break is an individual shootout from the 7-meter line.
17: ...e-meter penalty to the attacking team, or a seven-meter penalty. In more extreme cases, they give the def... - Lepospondyli (3903 bytes)
21: ...t taken by their more numerous [[Temnospondyli|Temnospondyl]] contemporaries.
23: ...]] but rather grew as bony cylinders around the [[notochord]]. Usually also the upper portion of the ...
25: ...ey first appear in the fossil record. It is not known whether the Lepospondyls are an artificial ([[p...
27: ... closely related to the ancestry of amniotes but not to recent amphibians (Benton 2004).
29: ...pondyls are limited in distribution to Europe and North America (Carroll 1988). - Gerenuk (1245 bytes)
12: ...axobox_section_binomial_parens | color = pink | binomial_name = Litocranius walleri }}
15: 52 kilograms and stand over 1 meter in shoulder height. During mating season, the mal... - Acrocanthosaurus (1730 bytes)
13: {{Taxobox_section_binomial | color = pink | binomial_name = Acrocanthosaurus atokensis | author = ...
16: ...t 40 [[feet]] (12 [[meter]]s) long and 13 feet (4 meters) tall.
18: ...its back. The function of these spines remains unknown: they may have acted as muscle anchors or they ...
20: ...he [[Early Cretaceous|Early]] [[Cretaceous]] of [[North America]].
22: {{Dino_template}} - Adasaurus (1845 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_superordo_entry | taxon = [[Dinosaur|Dinosauria]]}}
14: {{Taxobox_section_binomial | color = pink | binomial_name = Adasaurus mongoliensis | author = [[Ri...
17: ...the_bird_connection|present debate]] concerning dinosaurs and birds. Only incomplete fossils have bee...
19: ...o [[meter]]s) long and two feet (.7 meters) tall, normally about he size of a large dog , Adasaurus we...
21: ... actually more closely related to birds than to dinosaurs. - Amygdalodon (1504 bytes)
13: {{Taxobox_section_binomial | color = pink | binomial_name = Amygdalodon patagonicus | author = [[C...
16: ...wn about it, but it is one of the only Jurassic dinosaurs from [[South America]] found thus far.
18: ...dalodon'' was 15 [[meter]]s (50 [[feet]]) long, 4 meters (12 feet) tall. It was very large, weighing as ...
22: {{Dino_template}} - Ankylosaurus (3822 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_superordo_entry | taxon = [[Dinosaur|Dinosauria]]}}
17: ...ide body. It is one of the most heavily armored dinosaurs to have ever been found.
21: ...ere 1.8 meters (6 feet) wide, there were only 1.2 meters (4 feet) tall. Its legs were short, with the rea...
23: Massive knobs and plates of bone, known as [[osteoderms]], were embedded in the skin of...
27: ...ologic period|period]], and was one of the last dinosaurs before they were wiped out by the [[Cretaceo... - Anserimimus (1292 bytes)
19: ...us''''' ("[[Goose]] mimic") is a [[theropod]] [[dinosaur]] [[genus]] living in the Campanian - Maastri...
21: ...eton]] found without a [[skull]]. It is about 3 [[meter]]s in length and weighs up to 62 [[kilograms]]. ... - Ornithopod (3077 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_superordo_entry | taxon = [[Dinosaur|Dinosauria]]}}
17: :Iguanodontia<br/>
22: ::''[[Iguanodon]]''<br/>
26: ...ent]] along with all other non-[[aves|avian]] [[dinosaur]]s.
28: ...ee-[[toe]]d feet. They were also characterized by no armor, the development of a horny [[beak]], an el... - Ornithopoda (3077 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_superordo_entry | taxon = [[Dinosaur|Dinosauria]]}}
17: :Iguanodontia<br/>
22: ::''[[Iguanodon]]''<br/>
26: ...ent]] along with all other non-[[aves|avian]] [[dinosaur]]s.
28: ...ee-[[toe]]d feet. They were also characterized by no armor, the development of a horny [[beak]], an el... - Solar power (20128 bytes)
3: ...erally accepted standard is 1020 watts per square meter at sea level.
27: ... resulting [[Meteorological phenomenon|weather phenomena]].
28: ... the Solar System|Solar system]] and is therefore not solar in origin.
34: * [[Passive solar]] systems are systems that do not involve the input of any other forms of energy a...
39: ...d to give a higher intensity beam. Consequently, another scheme for classifying solar power systems is
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