Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
However, viruses are still poorly understood and may have arisen before "life" itself, or may be a more recent phenomenon. Major extinctions in terrestrial vertebrates and large amphibians. Earliest examples of armoured dinosaurs. 195 Ma First pterosaurs with specialized feeding (Dorygnathus). First sauropod dinosaurs.
Some creationists further believe that dinosaurs survived the Biblical flood since the Bible states that "every kind of land animal" did. [12] Creationists also tend to reject the fossil evidence that many non-avian dinosaurs were feathered, since this is among the evidence that birds descended from them through evolution. [14]
6000 BC – 5000 BC: The earliest New World ceramics are created in the Amazon basin. [127] 5700 BC – 4500 BC: Vinča culture. 5500 BC: Copper smelting in evidence in Pločnik and Belovode. [128] [129] 5259 BC: Confirmed Miyake event, with high amount of cosmic radiation from the Sun hitting the Earth.
Dates for the Paleolithic are given as Before Present (BP), which uses 1 January 1950 as the commencement date of the age scale. All later dates are given as Before Christ (BC), which uses the conventional Gregorian calendar with AD 1 as the commencement date of the age scale.
In the decades before the Civil War, white Americans created a pernicious “science” based on the black-belt soil of the Cotton Kingdom. Long ago, they said, God had created a sparkling ocean ...
Through the first half of the 20th century, before birds were recognized as dinosaurs, most of the scientific community believed dinosaurs to have been sluggish and cold-blooded. Most research conducted since the 1970s, however, has indicated that dinosaurs were active animals with elevated metabolisms and numerous adaptations for social ...
Dinosaurs were initially cold-blooded, but global warming 180 million years ago may have triggered the evolution of warm-blooded species, a new study found. ... named "Big John," on display before ...
The eponymous Silurians on Doctor Who are a race of reptilian humanoids from Earth's past, making their first appearance in the show in 1970. Frank and Schmidt cite Inherit the Stars, a 1977 novel by J. P. Hogan as containing a similar hypothesis, but also say they were surprised by how rarely the concept was explored in science fiction. [2]