Life on Earth: A Natural HistoryEvolution - Forests - Marine animals and plants - Birds - Mammals and marsupials - Adaptation - Primates - Animal communication; Baboon - Dinosaurs - Eggs - Whales. |
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... huge plant - eating species . As the water ripples above them , it is easy to imagine that the river bed is not ... huge to serve as a storage vat where the food could be held while the lengthy process of fermentation took place . A huge ...
... huge plant - eating species . As the water ripples above them , it is easy to imagine that the river bed is not ... huge to serve as a storage vat where the food could be held while the lengthy process of fermentation took place . A huge ...
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... huge horned dinosaur . In life , it grew to eight metres or so in length and a weight of nine tons . Its immense skull carried three horns , one above each eye and one on the tip of its nose , and a great bony frill that projected from ...
... huge horned dinosaur . In life , it grew to eight metres or so in length and a weight of nine tons . Its immense skull carried three horns , one above each eye and one on the tip of its nose , and a great bony frill that projected from ...
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... huge bones , pieces of skin covered with shaggy brown hair with curious bony nodules embedded in it and lumps of fresh - looking dung . He hung a piece of the skin on a post to serve as a boundary marker and there , a few years later ...
... huge bones , pieces of skin covered with shaggy brown hair with curious bony nodules embedded in it and lumps of fresh - looking dung . He hung a piece of the skin on a post to serve as a boundary marker and there , a few years later ...
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Introduction | 7 |
The Infinite Variety | 11 |
Building Bodies | 35 |
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Africa amphibians ancestors ancient animals ant-eater appear Archaeopteryx Australia bats become beetles beneath birds body bones branches Burgess Shales burrowing cells centimetres chitin claws coelacanth colony colours coral creatures cycads deposits descendants developed dinosaurs eggs eventually eyes feathers feed female fertilised fins fish flatworms flowers flying forest fossils frogs front giant ground grow hatch head hind horseshoe crabs huge hundred hunting insects invertebrates jaws jellyfish kind lancelet land larvae leaves legs lemurs living lungfish male mammals marine iguanas marsupial mate metres million years ago millipedes molluscs monkeys mouth move muscles nest organisms oxygen pair plants platypus pollen pouch prey primitive produce prosimians reef remains reptiles river rocks sand sea floor segmented shape shell side skeleton skin snake South America species sperm surface survive swim tail teeth tentacles termites tiny trees trilobites tube twigs whales wings worms young