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originally discovered well before the common era around 4,500 B.C, by following animals around, who eventually led the humans to locations of salt. Salt was located on or near seashores, and most of the salt coming from seashores off the Mediterranean Sea. Pepper originated from Southeast India and is over 4,000 years old. The Indians first used it for cooking around 2,000 BC and even before and it quickly made its way across Asia and even down to the Nile in Egypt. Nutmeg was found in Indonesia, specifically

strength and fighting ability were unmatched. The second aspect of Wolf Larsen that makes him so great is his mind. Larsen was born and bred on the sea. Wolf never saw the inside of a schoolhouse. He taught himself everything he knew by reading the great works of American literature. Poetry and novels are the only thing that can take Wolf’s mind off the sea. Through his learning he developed a "live for yourself only" theory on life. You could use such words as egocentric or arrogant to describe

In 1828 Shaka, leader of the Zulu tribe prophesied that ‘the swallows’, white men building mud houses, would come to conquer his people. By the end of the century his prophecy was reality. The extraordinary expansion drift of all major industrialised countries in Europe led to an unparalleled division of the African in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Key reason to expand pivoted around the European economy. The industrial revolution in Europe had changed the landscape from rural

Chelonia mydas, also known as the green sea turtle,is one of the seven remaining sea turtles in the planet. Though most sea turtles are characterized by its large, streamlined shells, the green sea turtle gains its name from the olive green colour of its skin, which is made up of fat and cartilage, not their shell. In fact, the hard, bony, and scaly shell of the green sea turtle is a darkish brown. Their oval shell can also be a light shade of brown or yellow. The narrow, wing-like flippers in these

The leatherback sea turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, belong in the phylum of Chordate, class of reptilian, order of Testudines, and the family of Dermochelyidae. These reptiles can be found throughout the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. Leatherback sea turtles are the largest turtles in the world. The average life expectancy of a leatherback turtle is forty-five years. Average size of the turtles upper shell, carapace, is about five feet and has a rubber-like texture feel to it consisting mainly

The boundary of the habitat complex generally follows the outer boundary of the 40,470-hectare (100,000-acre) Central Pine Barrens zone designated by the state of New York in 1993. It is a roughly rectangular area extending from the hamlet of Coram in central Long Island east to the hamlet of Squiretown on Long Island's South Fork; the width of the area from north to south varies from 14 kilometers (9 miles) at the western end to about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) at the eastern end. This boundary encompasses

How to Increase Declining Global Shark Population For more than 400 million years, sharks have inhabited planet Earth. They have marked their title as Kings of the ocean and stood their ground as one of the toughest sea creature. As rulers of the deep, these large carnivores play a major role in both the ecosystem and the economy. The species help to regulate the ocean’s health and maintain a stable environment through many methods, such as protecting seagrass and eating animals who bring negative

Diet Baby green turtles eat a variety of plants and small animals, but as adults they feed mainly on sea grass and marine algae. Predators Seabirds, crabs and raccoons feed on baby sea turtles when they first hatch, sharks are the only animal really large enough to prey upon grown sea turtles. The human race is also a predator of the green turtle. Birth rate (gestation & mating seasons) Mating season begins sometime in March, and females then nest from May to September. The females lay, on average

have a diverse range of effects, at a local and regional scales, on both the biological diversity and the goods and services of the Mediterranean Sea.” Israeli daily Haaretz reported Monday. They are worried that new species will enter the Mediterranean since “of nearly 700 multicellular and nonindigenous species currently recognized from the Mediterranean Sea, fully half were introduced through the Suez Canal since

Introduction Sea urchin embryos have been studied as model organisms for over 100 years. This organism is a great resource because of its straightforward artificial spawning, fertilization, and its embryo optical transparency. Also, the sea urchin simple organization makes it great to study morphogenetic movements and effects (Hardin et al., 1995). The ability of an organism to function normally is dependent on all the cells of its different organs communicating effectively with their surroundings