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    written by Ray Bradbury “A Sound of Thunder” and “The Veldt” share many similarities as well as differences. “A Sound of Thunder” is about a man that assumes the name Mr. Eckels who goes on an expedition sixty-five million years into the past to hunt dinosaurs. When they are hunting they cross paths with A Tyrannosaurus rex. Eckels and the others kill the reptile and Eckels becomes traumatized. He then proceeds by stepping on a path a crushes a butterfly under his boot accidentally. He doesn’t find out

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    Real Bigfoot Myth

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    What's more, unlike with previously extinct animals such as the dinosaurs, no fossils of a Bigfoot have ever been found. Although there's a very high volume of reported sightings of Bigfoot, the majority of them lack credibility. Due to the countless hoaxers and media portrayal of this creature, any supposed sightings

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    Mass Reflection

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    happened at the end of Triassic period 200 million years ago. And like the previous one, it was caused by volcanic eruptions. Mass extinction number five occurred 66 million years ago when a meteor slammed into the Yucatan peninsula and decimated the dinosaurs. When the question of what marine life was affected by these extinctions, the answer was that animals that lived in water column

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    Yidath Myth

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    disciplined science, but has been labeled a pseudoscience-a search for creatures who's existence can only verified in the mythology, folklore or unreliable sightings. Classifications include sea serpents, abominable snowmen, mothmen and the modern relic dinosaur

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    Experts say around 99.9 percent of the species that ever existed on planet earth are now extinct. Recently however scientists have been working on ways of how to revive some extinct species back to life. Scientists are attempting to bring 24 extinct species back to life. There has been a lot of work put into researching how this might become possible. So far, attempts have been able to bring a few species to life, however, most only manage to live for a few seconds up to a couple of minutes. However

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    Do you know what the biggest animal ever to live on Earth is? You would be wrong if you speculated a dinosaur, elephant, or giraffe. You may be surprised to find out that the biggest animal ever to live on Earth is the Blue Whale and it is still alive today. The Blue Whale weighs as much as 33 elephants and consumes about 4 tons of food a day. I bet if you knew of an animal that was as long as 3 school buses you would want to keep this animal in the world forever. Although, the Blue Whale may not

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    al., 2017; McCullough et al., 2016; McCullough and Emlen, 2013; Emlen, 2008). The diversity of these structures is usually extremely high (both intra- and interspecifically) and have existed in many animal groups, including extinct trilobites and dinosaurs, to beetles, birds and hoofed mammals (ungulates) found today (O’Biren et al., 2017; McCullough et al., 2016; Emlen, 2008; Emlen et al., 2005; Emlen, 2001). Although both ornaments and weapons will increase mating opportunities for males, the mechanisms

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    History Of Mass Extinction Essay

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    of an evolving, and escalating process. The most recent, or fifth mass of the extinctions occurred 65 million years ago at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods. Images of an asteroid colliding with the planet, decimating the dinosaur population have been in circulation since the early 80’s.2[2] Being the most recent mass extinction, thousands of scientists around the world have investigated it, and elementary school children are familiar with

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    Have you ever wonder “why” dinosaurs went extinct? Here is a theory of why the dinosaurs don't exist in today's world. A long time ago the only thing that existed was animals called ‘dinosaurs” they were the only living things on planet earth. These dinosaurs were unique because they could talk but nobody could understand them, it was like their secret “code” language. These dinosaurs lived a happy and healthy life until the small explosion changed the life of these dinosaures. Just few miles away

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    the math, but it seems to me that these together might make the temperature remain around normal, meaning the temperature couldn’t have affected the number of dinosaurs on the Earth. One major flaw in the article was the way they perceived all dinosaurs as being high up on the food chain, when there were in fact several herbivore dinosaurs. So, just killing the plants wouldn’t

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