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Well-known ferocious beasts in nature
1. African elephant African elephants are the largest land mammals, exhibiting sexual dimorphism (males and females differ in size and phys...
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Australopithecus boisei
While Dart and Bloom continued their discoveries of Australopithecus in South Africa, the renowned British paleoanthrop...
The earliest human fossils
We already know that the oldest known groups of hominids were mostly found in eastern Africa. But the story doesn't...
The earliest representative of the genus Homo
The origin of hominins, represented by the transition from Australopithecus to Ardipithecus, was an evolutionary leap t...
The first complete Peking Man skull discovery
The discovery of ancient human fossils at Zhoukoudian greatly excited Johan Gunnar Andersson, who was deeply involved i...
Mammal evolution and environmental change
In the early 20th century, some Western scholars, based on the evolution of mammals and changes in the natural environm...
Stone tools from Zhoukoudian
Although Andersson had noticed as early as 1921 some white, sharp-edged vein quartz fragments at the site where Peking ...
The spark of Zhoukoudian illuminated the world
Among the artifacts discovered at Zhoukoudian, Peking Man not only had a large number of stone tools, but also many too...
What are the advantages of the genus Homo?
We modern humans are members of the genus *Homo*, which evolved from *Homo habilis* through *Homo erectus* and early *H...
Characteristics of Homo erectus
As descendants of Homo habilis, Homo erectus appeared on the historical stage of human evolution in Africa about 2 mill...
What are dinosaurs (characteristics of dinosaurs)?
Dinosaurs were a group of reptiles that ruled the land for over 140 million years (over 160 million years in some parts...
How are dinosaur fossils formed?
Although dinosaurs lived millions of years ago, we know of their existence because some of them became fossils after th...
What killed the dinosaurs?
The end of the Cretaceous period witnessed one of the most dramatic mass extinctions in Earth's history. Find out w...
Planarians can regenerate incredibly well even when cut into hundreds of pieces.
Planarians, flatworms, can regenerate into complete planarians from each segment even after being cut into hundreds of ...
The frog clung tightly to a leaf to shelter from the rain.
While thousands of people were seeking refuge from the sweltering heat, a tiny tree frog in Indonesia sheltered itself ...
List of extinct animals (A comprehensive overview of extinct animals)
Different eras demanded different survival skills from animals. In ancient times, large size and ferocious behavior wer...
