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2. History of Animals - Wikipedia

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   History of Animals (Greek: Τῶν περὶ τὰ ζῷα ἱστοριῶν, Ton peri ta zoia historion, "Inquiries on Animals"; Latin: Historia Animalium, "History of Animals") is one of the major texts on biology by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, who had studied at Plato's Academy in Athens. It was written in the fourth century BC ...

3. List of artiodactyls - Wikipedia

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   Various artiodactyls, representing all four suborders. Artiodactyla is an order of placental mammals composed of even-toed ungulates – hooved animals which bear weight equally on two of their five toes with the other toes either present, absent, vestigial, or pointing posteriorly – as well as their descendants, the aquatic cetaceans.

4. List of perissodactyls - Wikipedia

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   List of perissodactyls. Three perissodactyl species (clockwise from left): plains zebra (Equus quagga), Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) and South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris) Perissodactyla is an order of placental mammals composed of odd-toed ungulates – hooved animals which bear weight on one or three of their five toes with ...

5. Animals in ancient Greece and Rome - Wikipedia

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   Animals had a variety of roles and functions in ancient Greece and Rome. Fish and birds were served as food. Species such as donkeys and horses served as work animals. The military used elephants. It was common to keep animals such as parrots, cats, or dogs as pets. Many animals held important places in the Graeco-Roman religion or culture.

6. Timeline of human evolution - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. Lists of prehistoric animals - Wikipedia

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   List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record. List of plesiosaur genera. List of prehistoric malacostracans. List of prehistoric medusozoan genera. List of prehistoric nautiloid genera. List of prehistoric ostracod genera. List of prehistoric sea cucumbers. List of prehistoric sponge genera. List of trilobite genera.

8. Progression of Animals - Wikipedia

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   Progression of Animals. Progression of Animals (or On the Gait of Animals; Greek: Περὶ πορείας ζῴων; Latin: De incessu animalium) is one of Aristotle 's major texts on biology. It gives details of gait and movement in various kinds of animals, as well as speculating over the structural homologies among living things. [1 ...

9. Archosaur - Wikipedia

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   Archosauria (lit. 'ruling reptiles') or archosaurs (/ ˈɑːrkəˌsɔːr / [3]) is a clade of diapsid sauropsid tetrapods, with birds and crocodilians being the only extant representatives. Although broadly classified as reptiles, which traditionally exclude birds, the cladistic sense of the term includes all living and extinct relatives of ...