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Artist interpretation of a Devonian swamp forest scene. Artwork by Eduard Riou from The World Before the Deluge 1872. The Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution, also known as the Devonian Plant Explosion (DePE) [1] and the Devonian explosion, was a period of rapid colonization, diversification and radiation of land plants and fungi on dry lands that occurred 428 to 359 million years ago ...
Dyes have incited murder and subterfuge, made and lost fortunes and turned clothes into a status symbol for thousands of years. A new book examines why.
The snail takes 30–40 days to hatch and is then considered young (before sexual maturity). Sexual maturity begins between 4 and 16 months after hatching. The snail is relatively fast moving at about 8 mm/s. [3] The snail has a light grey or brown body, with its lower tentacles being long and almost touching the ground.
Landscape in the northern Fayum region with a view of Lake Qarun. The Fayum is a region and an important fossil Lagerstätte in northern Egypt.The region comprises the Fayum Basin, which is intensively used for agriculture, and adjoining areas; the important areas of discovery are mostly north and west of Lake Qarun.
Ruins (from Latin ruina ' a collapse ') are the remains of a civilization's architecture. The term refers to formerly intact structures that have fallen into a state of partial or total disrepair over time due to a variety of factors, such as lack of maintenance, deliberate destruction by humans, or uncontrollable destruction by natural phenomena .
Subterranean fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction, science fiction, or fantasy which focuses on fictional underground settings, sometimes at the center of the Earth or otherwise deep below the surface.
Snails merely feed on organic vegetable food scraps which creates a byproduct of organic compost, which supports the garden. The result is a sustainable food source with a comparable amount of ...
Originally built in 1933 by Japanese during their occupation, [1] the building used to be a copper and gold smelter plant called the Shuinandong Smelter that used to process refined ore from Jinguashi and Jiufen. [2] After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, the refinery was taken over by the state-run company ...