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    For many years people have debated the existence and time of the dinosaurs. Evolutionists have used dinosaurs against Christians in many arguments as one of their main weapons. Many Christians give up when this argument is made and believe in theological evolution, or evolution in general because the Bible does not give them any support on this topic. There is several times where dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible but it is shrugged off as make believe because the word dragon is used. There is

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    “Dinosaurs” are ALIVE and living on Earth! The age of the dinosaur dates back 65 to 230 million years ago. Sea turtles, a prehistoric animal, have been around for 150 million years and are at a life threatening state. Their lives are diminishing at an alarming rate by factors such as predators, diseases, hunting and littering. The only way it can be stopped is to help. The beaches that the baby sea turtles are born on, means a lot to them. In March, baby sea turtles hatch and make their way to

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    From the presentation the 6th mass extinction: 1. Describe what biodiversity is and why biodiversity is so important. Biodiversity is the variety of spices within plants and animals in the environment, it is an indicator of ecosystem health. The importance of biodiversity: Biodiversity provides humans with food and materials (like wood) that benefiting the economy. Biodiversity performs a variety of ecological services: from absorbing chemicals to cleaning water and providing oxygen. Some types

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    Hominid's Development of Bipedalism Approximately 4 million years ago a wonderful evolutionary phenomenon was happening in Africa. Early hominids, man’s ancestors, were beginning a giant leap in their evolution. These hominids were moving out of the forest and beginning to walk upright, out on the open plains (Fagan, 98). This change from quadrupedalism was the most significant adaptation that ever happened to these early hominids. It caused many adaptations that make man what he is today

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    About 20 million years after Pappochelys, we began to see a more similar looking ancestor to the turtle, the Odontochelys semitestacea. O.semitestacea was roaming the planet in the Late Triassic era in modern day China. Odontochelys differed a lot from modern turtles. Modern day turtles possess a horned like beak without any teeth present in their mouth, while Odontochelys fossils showed that teeth were found embedded in their upper and lower jaws. One of the most interesting features of turtles

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    The Choloepus sloth is a rare but very interesting mammal. The sloth has an interesting diet, it only consumes of tough leaves, it could take up to a month for a sloth to digest its meal.The Sloths ancestors lived in North America. Sloths like sleeping in the fork of a tropical tree while curled into a ball. Another way that the sloths like to sleep would be by hanging from their feet from tree branches. “The two-toed sloth is slightly bigger than the three-toed sloth, though they share many of the

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    Introduction A young boy sits by the window looking outside with inquisitive looks on his face. He notices that there are two birds on either side of his emerald front yard. One bird (Blue Jay) is very blue in color and expresses fidgety movement in its bearing. The second bird (Crow), however, has a dingy black look and contains a tiresome wail to its voice. The boy’s curiosity in overwhelming due to asking himself a simple, yet complicated, question: They are both birds, but have significant

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    How Ammonite Causes

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    Ammonite taxa often occur in narrow time ranges, arguably making them the best index fossils to determine the ages of strata of certain time intervals (Callomon, 2003). The fossil remnants of ammonites act as the major basis for the identification of Jurassic and Cretaceous strata in the Sverdrup Basin, reinforced by the presence of bivalves, dinoflagellates, and foraminifera (Galloway et al., 2013). While macrofossils such as ammonites are used to define every stage of the Jurassic and Cretaceous

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    Chapter 2: In chapter two of The Sixth Extinction the book explains how extinction is one of the first scientific concepts that children learn in school. Also, it talks about how children in the modern times know more about extinction than scientists did hundreds of years ago. Scientists first theorized the concept of extinction in the late 18th century. In this chapter the book also talked about how a naturalist named Georges Cuvier studied the fossils of an extinct animal called the American Mastodon

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    The Saber toothed tiger is one of the many animals that have gone extinct. This unique species is not only one of the characters of the Ice Age movie series but also lived through this era in the real world. Today you will learn how The Saber Toothed tiger lived before they were exterminated from this world. Just like any other creature of this world the Saber toothed tiger evolved in order to survive. Knowing that the saber tooth tiger has common ancestors with animals we know today lets us learn

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