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The prefix palaeo- or paleo- means "ancient, old", [1] and is derived from the Greek adjective παλαιός, palaios. [2] Paleobotany includes the study of terrestrial plant fossils, as well as the study of prehistoric marine photoautotrophs, such as photosynthetic algae, seaweeds or kelp. A closely related field is palynology, which is the ...
Growtopia is a 2D massively multiplayer online sandbox video game based around the idea that most of the in-game items can be grown from their corresponding seeds. [8] The game has no end goals or 100% completion, but has an achievement system and quests to complete from non-player characters . Players start out with two basic tools: a fist for ...
Sauropodomorpha. Sauropodomorpha ( / ˌsɔːrəˌpɒdəˈmɔːrfə / [ 2] SOR-ə-POD-ə-MOR-fə; from Greek, meaning "lizard-footed forms") is an extinct clade of long-necked, herbivorous, saurischian dinosaurs that includes the sauropods and their ancestral relatives.
Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, [ 1] is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins c. 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use of symbols, marks, and images appears very early among humans, but the earliest known writing ...
List of mosasaur genera. List of prehistoric annelid genera. List of prehistoric barnacles. List of prehistoric brittle stars. List of prehistoric bryozoan genera. List of prehistoric chitons. List of prehistoric foraminifera genera. List of ichthyosaur genera. List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record.
Pumice, here: northern shelving coast. Eruption of 165 ka buried it all. Akrotiri ( Greek: Ακρωτήρι, pronounced Greek: [akroˈtiri]) is the site of a Cycladic Bronze Age settlement on the volcanic Greek island of Santorini (Thera). The name comes from the nearby village of Akrotiri .
Fossils of very early Neanderthals dating to around 400,000 years ago have been found at Swanscombe in Kent, and of classic Neanderthals about 225,000 years old at Pontnewydd in Wales. Britain was unoccupied by humans between 180,000 and 60,000 years ago, when Neanderthals returned.
This list of prehistoric amphibians is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be amphibians, excluding purely vernacular terms.