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5 days ago · The Xoloitzcuintli, or Xolo, is a hairless Mexican dog with origins as far back as the Aztecs (at least 3,500 years ago!). Originally used as guard dogs, Xolos were almost extinct when they became ...
2 days ago · The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the evolutionary lineage of the modern human species, Homo sapiens, throughout the history of life, beginning some 4 billion years ago down to recent evolution within H. sapiens during and since the Last Glacial Period . It includes brief explanations of the various taxonomic ranks in ...
1 day ago · The first appearance of the conodont Hindeodus parvus has been used to delineate the Permian-Triassic boundary. [45] [46] The extinction occurred between 251.941 ± 0.037 and 251.880 ± 0.031 million years ago, a duration of 60 ± 48 thousand years. [47]
4 days ago · The Eocene ( IPA: / ˈiːəsiːn, ˈiːoʊ -/ EE-ə-seen, EE-oh- [5] [6]) is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name Eocene comes from the Ancient Greek Ἠώς ( Ēṓs, "Dawn") and καινός ( kainós, "new") and refers ...
1 day ago · DOI: 10.1007/s12549-024-00607-4. The interesting thing about these fossils was their iridescent, metallic appearance. This is probably due to so-called structural colors, where the surface of the ...
4 days ago · She went down into the hole. Into this yawning vortex of doom. She dove into an alternate world: the secret infinite maze of the inside of our very old house. Now, Mango was a fat little golden ...
6 days ago · A three-year-old boy has been attacked by a dog at a park in Adelaide 's western suburbs. The child was playing at a park near Pennington Primary school at about 4.30pm when the attack happened.
