Such evidence of this human animal interaction was a breakthrough. The Saltville site‚ often referred to as SV-2‚ in the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia holds great significance due to its abundance of various fossil and archeological clues to the past. In recent news‚ there have been articles describing a discovery that may show signs of human life in the area earlier than initially thought. Per The Associated Press- Richmond‚ “artifacts at Saltville date to 14‚000 years ago‚ a few hundred years
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and wear mastodon‚ deer‚ and other animal furs. The clan comprises 49 people and 15 dogs. 22 of these people are warriors and hunters. Our clan and our allies live in a valley that stretches along the river‚ surrounded by high mountains and hills‚ and lots of forests and wildlife. The forests are dangerous‚ so we stay in the valley. The area in the valley is grasslands and swamps. Our clan used to live on fish and mastodon‚ but the fish are no longer abundant and recently‚ the mastodons that
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From it over the years hundreds of skeletons were being recovered under the supervision of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History‚ established at Exposition Park in 1913. Among the Pleistocene fossils found and put on display: mammoths‚ mastodons‚ saber-toothed cats‚ the giant ground sloth and dire wolf‚ the California lion‚ weighing over a thousand pounds‚ the ground stork‚ the golden eagle (800 of these) and one
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The Pliocene is the fifth epoch of the Cenozoic. The epoch started around five million years ago and lasted almost three and a half million years. It is during the Pliocene that the first bipedal ancestors of humans are known to have evolved. Dramatic cooling and a drop in sea level impacted both marine and terrestrial life at the start of the epoch. The name Pliocene means "more recent” and this were the most recent epoch of Tertiary period‚ lasting from about 5 to 2 million years ago. Compared
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tissue which made the skins harder‚ it also passed on its sharper teeth because it’s prey started to get harder to bite into so it had to adapt by making its teeth sharper‚ and one more is fins for swimming faster because the prey started to get faster over time to avoid getting eaten so the Megalodon had to adapt by swimming faster and stronger to catch up to the prey. This how you see all the modern day sharks strong skin‚ sharp teeth‚ and quick swimmers. The Megalodon didn’t have many predators just
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They say when you are making shots in basketball‚ you are a "hot" shooter. So it’s no surprise that with about three and a half minutes remaining in the game between the Fort Wayne Mastodons and North Dakota State Bison‚ the fire alarm finally sounded. The Mastodons and Bison were both shooting over 50% on their three-point attempts‚ with the ’Dons having a 80-77 lead after trailing by double-figures late in the first half and being down by seven at halftime. Unfortunately‚ after a nine-minute
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come across the Sybil at Cumae who was hung in a cage. Children threw stones at her and asked‚ “What do you want?” In answer‚ she said‚ ‘I want to die.” This very Sybil asked for as many years to live as there were grains of sands in her grasp from Apollo as a boon. In other words she asked for immortality but she forgot to ask for immortal youth like Tithonus who also suffered from agility. At last Tithonus said that a man should not try to vary from the race of man. This Sybil at Cumae out of
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Name : _____Ashley Vernet_______ Chapter 17: Life on Earth Activity designed by Kathleen Rudolph Taxa to explore – Elephants!! 1. Review terms (write definitions for these terms) Extant Species‚ families‚ or groups still in existence Extinct Species‚ families‚ or groups no longer in existence‚ end or died out Genotype Genetic make-up of an organism Phenotype Physical attributes of an organism‚ observable or measurable traits Synapomorphy Shared characteristic that are inherited
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studies have changed the way that the general public has viewed them. Theropod dinosaurs have been selected to be analyzed because they have the strongest evidence pointing to warm blooded tendencies across the class. Carbon and oxygen isotopes in teeth enamel and physical fossilized data can be used to argue for the warm blooded tendencies in the theropods. Introduction The debate of whether dinosaurs were cold or warm blooded is neither a new nor resolved debate. Since first hypothesized in 1969
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now. In a sinkhole about 30 miles west of Tallahassee‚ Florida‚ under 9 feet of murky water‚ divers found many artifacts‚ such as a stone knife and the remains of a hunted mastodon‚ that were carbon dated to about 14‚400 years ago. Archaeologists figure it is likely that these pre-Clovis people killed and ate much of the mastodon‚ and left behind the man made knife and it’s carcass. The dating
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