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The Nine Planets
The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each planet and the major moons in our solar system. Each page has my text... |
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Saturn, The Sixth Planet
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest. In Roman mythology, Saturn is the god of agriculture. The associated Greek god, Cronus, was the son of... |
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BIG BANG : Formation of the Universe
Ca. 13.7 billion years ago: Universe, which includes time and space, begins with Big Bang. The Big Bang is dated according to NASA. 300 thousand years after the Big Bang,... |
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Uranus, 7th Planet from the Sun
Uranus is the 7th planet from the Sun. It was discovered in 1781 by William Herschel and named for the Greek god personifying heaven. A blue-green gas giant, it has almos... |
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Neptune, 8th Planet from the Sun
Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun and the fourth largest (by diameter). Neptune is smaller in diameter but larger in mass than Uranus.
In Roman mythology Nept... |
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FORMATION OF EARTH
4600 MYA Formation of the approximately homogeneous solid Earth by planetesimal accretion. 3800 MYA The Earth's crust solidifies--formation of the oldest rocks found on E... |
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CAMBRIAN : Explosion of Life on Earth
The Cambrian Period marks an important point in the history of life on earth; it is the time when most of the major groups of animals first appear in the fossil record. T... |
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PERMIAN : Largest Mass Extinction
The Permian period lasted from 290 to 248 million years ago and was the last period of the Paleozoic Era. The distinction between the Paleozoic and the Mesozoic is made a... |
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Pangaea, Supercontinent
Pangaea or Pangea is the name given to the supercontinent that existed during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras about 250 million years ago, before the process of plate tec... |
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MESOZOIC : Age of Dinosaurs
The Mesozoic is known as the Age of Dinosaurs. It also saw the development of early birds and mammals, and of flowering plants (angiosperms). At the end of the Mesozoic,... |
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Walking with Dinosaurs
BBC Online : A multimedia tour of prehistoric life. Find out what the earth was like 65-220 million years ago. Discover the planet, the plants and the dinosaurs.... |
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STONE AGE : The Human Era
The first species of the genus Homo, evolved in South and East Africa in the late Pliocene or early Pleistocene (2 - 2.5 million years before present) when it diverged fr... |
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Hominid Species Timeline
The main Hominid species (apes, humans) and their approximate relationships in time.
Australopithicus afarensis is a recently discovered Hominid species which lived in... |
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The Human Origins
Human evolution is the lengthy process of change by which people originated from apelike ancestors. Scientific evidence shows that the physical and behavioral traits shar... |
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ICE AGE : Extintion of Large Mammals
The last Ice Age started about 70,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago (during the Pleistocene epoch). The Earth was much colder than it is now; snow accumulate... |
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