The country that's home to the earliest dated monotreme fossils, it's also home to the platypus
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Platypus - Wikipedia  The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), also known as the duck-billed platypus, is a ... The platypus uses its tail for storage of fat reserves (an adaptation also found in .... It may have a range of up to 7 km (4.3 mi), with a male's home range ... That is, monotremes lay eggs, and the eggs are similar to those of reptiles in that...
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Echidna - Wikipedia  Echidnas /kdn/, sometimes known as spiny anteaters, belong to the family Tachyglossidae in the monotreme order of egg-laying mammals. The four extant species, together with the platypus, are the only surviving ... The echidnas' ears are slits on the sides of their heads that are usually unseen due to the fact that they...
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Creationism and the Platypus - The Talk.Origins Archive  Feb 18, 1997 ... Many creationists view the duckbilled platypus as an enigma that ... It is a mammal which has fur and suckles its young, but it also lays eggs, has ... the monotreme lineage separated from that of the other mammals. ... Following is a list of the platypus fossils found to date. .... Baker Book House Company.
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Jeopary Questions page 1733 - SHIP SHAPE - TriviaBistro.com  ERAS & AGES: Kicked off by the Russians in October 1957, it's also an adjective meaning "shiny & modern" ... MONOTREMES: The name platypus comes from the Greek for "broad" this body part ... MONOTREMES: The country that's home to the earliest dated monotreme fossils, it's also home to the platypus.
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Monotreme - Wikipedia  Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs (Prototheria) instead of giving birth to live young like ... The existing monotreme species are the platypus and four species of echidnas. .... (the platypus along with its fossil relatives) and Tachyglossa (the echidnas, or spiny ... The earliest echidna found to date is about 13 million years.
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What does the fossil record show? - BioLogos  At 500 million years ago, ancient fish without jawbones surface; and at 400 million years ... Fossils of land animals, or tetrapods, first appear in rocks that are about 370 ... But in 1998, scientists found a fossilized fin, 370 million years old, with eight ... One group of reptiles, the cynodonts, first appeared about 260 million years...
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BBC - Earth - The 'Lucy' fossil rewrote the story of humanity  Nov 27, 2014 ... Forty years ago in east Africa, a team of scientists found a fossil that ... morning in late November 1974, a team of scientists were digging in an ... She belonged to a new species called Australopithecus afarensis, ... For Johanson, in the field at Hadar, it was immediately apparent that Lucy walked upright,...
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HOMO ERECTUS, THE FIRST ASIANS AND EUROPEANS | Facts ...  Until recently scientists believed that man evolved in Africa and didn't leave ... scientists working in China and elsewhere in Asia are challenging these theories. Homo erectus lived 1.7 million years to 250,000 years ago. ... least 600,000 years old, has browridges like Homo erectus specimens found ..... Last Homo Erectus.
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Free Flashcards about ARCHAEOLOGY - StudyStack  FOSSILS OF THIS "PRIMITIVE MAN" HAVE BEEN FOUND IN FRANCE AND GIBRALTAR AS WELL AS THE NEANDER VALLEY, NEANDERTHAL MAN.
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Early Hominin Evolution: Discovery of Early Hominids  The primate fossil record for this crucial transitional period leading to ... By 3 million years ago, they were common in both East and South Africa. .... Early hominin fossils from Olduvai Gorge are known mostly as a result of the many expeditions ... later ones were found in Ethiopia since 1974, but none is as complete as Lucy.
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The Evolution of Life - University of Waikato  Birth of Earth - approximately 4600 million years ago - The Hadean Period (4600 ... Dinosaurs and birds - the Jurassic period (213 m.y. - 145 m.y.); The final ... However, one particular group of bacteria, the cyanobacteria or "blue-green algae," .... The first tetrapods, or land-living vertebrates, appeared during the Devonian,...
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Choukoutien - Archaeology Wordsmith  The find also yielded extinct animals; flake, core, and chopping tools of ... China, with numerous human fossils, including ' Peking man', found in cave ... New investigations have found more skulls and parts, and a pollen sequence is known. ... such as Choukoutien, in the Clactonian in England, and at the earliest levels of...
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Homo erectus - Wikipedia  Homo erectus is an extinct species of hominid that lived throughout most of the Pleistocene geological epoch. Its earliest fossil evidence dates to 1.9 million years ago and the most recent .... The second hypothesis is that H. erectus evolved in Eurasia and then migrated to Africa. They occupied the Dmanisi site from 1.85...
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Read or download The Transitional Form Dilemma - Harun Yahya  Despite this lack of transitional-form fossils, which are so important for the theory of .... Archaeopteryx, which lived some 150 million years ago, is the species animal most ..... KNM-ER 1470, like other early Homo specimens, shows many ... of man is a fossil found in the central African country of Chad in the summer of 2002.
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Cretaceous Period - ZoomDinosaurs.com - Enchanted Learning  Creta is the Latin word for chalk. The Cretaceous period is named for chalky rock from southeastern England that was the first Cretaceous period sediment...
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Homo erectus - PBS  Homo erectus, unlike H. habilis and all of the Australopithecus species, ranged far beyond ... Date of discovery: 1999 ... of a 9- to 12-year-old boy is one of the oldest-known specimens of H. erectus. ... of Java indicates that the species lived in Asia as many as 1.6 million years ago. ... Estimated age: 500,000 to 300,000 years
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New horned dinosaur species discovered in Montana by amateur  May 18, 2016 ... The bones unearthed near Winifred, Montana represent a previously-unknown species of dinosaur that lived 76 million years ago. It's scientific...
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Evolution of Humanity, the Great March Forward - Google Arts ...  Major Characteristics: As this species differed from Asian Homo erectus, which was the ... In the 1920s, some fossils excavated from an ancient cave at Zhoukoudian (near Beijing) in China were sold as ... Although there has been considerable scientific debate over whether H. ... They also knew how to control and use fire.
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Pangaea - Wikipedia  Pangaea or Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. It assembled from earlier continental units approximately 300 million years ago, and it began to break apart about 175 million years ago. In contrast to the present Earth and its distribution of continental mass, much ... The concept that the continents once formed a continuous land mass was...
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Oldest Skeleton of Human Ancestor Found  Oct 1, 2009 ... Subscribe Now! ... The fossil puts to rest the notion, popular since Darwin's time, that a ... from where Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, was found in 1974. ... with the bones of the other individuals over the next three field seasons. ... After Ardi died, her remains apparently were trampled down into...
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Homo erectus | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program  Early African Homo erectus fossils (sometimes called Homo ergaster) are the oldest ... found the first Homo erectus individual (Trinil 2) in Indonesia in 1891. ... early human species; no early human fossils had even been discovered in Africa yet. ... While we have evidence that hearths were used for cooking (and probably...