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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]
[1] [2] [3] The Polish-Mongolian expeditions were notable for being led by women, some of whom were among the first women to name new dinosaurs. The fossils discovered in these expeditions shed new light on the interchange of fauna between Asia and North America during the Cretaceous period .
A crater on the Moon was named after her, [78] as was one on Venus, where all features are named after women. [79] An asteroid, 3356 Resnik, was also named after her. [80] A memorial to Resnik and the rest of the crew of Challenger was dedicated in Seabrook, Texas, where she lived while stationed at the Johnson Space Center. [81]
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The first astronauts originally from Britain, South Korea, and Iran were women, while there was a two-year gap in Russia from the first man in space on Vostok 1 to the first woman in space on Vostok 6. The time between the first American man and first American woman in space was 22 years between Freedom 7 and STS-7, respectively.
The dinosaur was named “Gnatalie" last month after the museum asked for a public vote on five choices that included Verdi, a derivative of the Latin word for green; Olive, after the small green ...
The lokiceratops had at least 12 smaller horns coming from its head, and perhaps even 14, whereas another similar looking dinosaur, the medusaceratops, only had 10, he said.
Coelophysis (/ s ɛ ˈ l ɒ f ɪ s ɪ s / se-lOF-iss-iss traditionally; / ˌ s ɛ l oʊ ˈ f aɪ s ɪ s / SEL-oh-FY-siss or / ˌ s iː l oʊ ˈ f aɪ s ɪ s / SEE-loh-FY-siss, as heard more commonly in recent decades [3]) is a genus of coelophysid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 215 to 208.5 million years ago during the Late Triassic period from the middle to late Norian age in what ...