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    Gondwana is an ancient supercontinent that existed around 500 million years ago. In fact, Gondwana broke up and eventually created the continents we know today. These continents are known as Africa, South America, Australia, Antarctica, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Indian subcontinent. Just because Gondwana eventually created the continents we know today, does not mean that these continents will stay the same forever. Eventually, there will be different arrangements in an extensive history of continental adjustment. Continents and landmasses on Earth are always moving in a state of slow motion. Also, at times, many continents come together as one. These supercontinents include Columbia, which is also known as Nuna, Rodinia, Pannotia,…

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    period there was a sudden explosion of life on earth. The climate of the Cambrian Period was relatively cold at first, but then started to gradually warm up. Halfway through this period life started to go extinct. The second period in the Paleozoic Era was the Ordovician Period. During this time, life underwater went through some tremendous changes. Also, a variety of marine life flourished also plants were beginning to appear on land also most of the world's land masses came together to form…

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    Continental Drift Gondwana was an ancient supercontinent that existed hundreds of millions of years ago. It was made of many continents that we know today. It broke up a long time ago because of something called Continental Drift. Continental drift is what it is called when the tectonic plates move around and rearrange and reshape the continents. Gondwana was made up of 5 main pieces; Africa, South America, Australia, India, and Antarctica. Gondwana existed roughly 300-180 million…

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    Essay On Marsupials

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    America. Marsupials have 280 extant species (No-wak 1991). They are separated into two separate cohorts; Ameridelphia and Australidelphia. Common marsupials include; kangaroos, koalas, wombats and possums. They are characterised by their distinct pouch, in which they carry their young. Marsupials have evolved, along with placental mammals, from Therian mammals. Molecular data suggests that Marsupials separated from Eutherian (placental) mammals approximately 90 million years ago. Australia is…

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    Australia was originally in the Antarctic circle as part of Gondwana, a supercontinent that consisted of Australia, Antarctica, Africa, and South America. It was part of the land and then broke off and slowly moved up to where it is now. New Zealand and the other surrounding islands also came from this same land, but, they broke off to form islands of their own. Because of the greenhouse conditions on the planet at the time of Gondwana, the area, despite being in the Antarctic circle, had no…

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    Australias Formation

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    surface for millions of years. Supercontinents are a cluster of most or all of Earth's continents to from a single landmass, including Ur (Vaalbar), Kenorland, Protopangea-Paleopangea, Columbia (Nuna), Rodina, Pannotia and Pangea. Australia was part of the supercontinent, Pangea, which consisted of Australia, Antarctica, India, Africa, South America, North America and Eurasia. Pangea was formed around two hundred and seventy million years ago and had split into two supercontinents, about 200…

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    The Brachiosaurs

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    Imagine finding fossils of an undiscovered sauropod while adventuring with some friends. Well that is what happened to Elmer S. Riggs. He discovered the first fossils of the Brachiosaurus. In 1900, Riggs found a partial skeleton of a Brachiosaurus in the rocks of the Brushy Basin Membrane of the Morrison Formation. The fossils were studied and information on this species was revealed. Brachiosaurs lived in the late Jurassic period, which was about 145 to 156 million years ago. The Jurassic…

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    Honey Bees Research Paper

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    Gondwana, a single land mass that included Africa, India, South America, Australia, and Antarctica had a warm dry climate that included flowering plants that attracted the bees so they could collect the pollen. These flowering plants produced nectar and provided carbohydrates to these winged insects. Over time the honey bee developed its morphologies changed to collect pollen by its increased fuzziness, pollen baskets, longer tongues and more colonies to store supplies. Forty million years ago…

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    Recombinant Dna Synthesis

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    fruition because of those punctual endosymbiosis between prokaryotic endosymbionts and eukaryotic host cell. The Cambrian explosion was the sudden increase in diversity and colonization of land by plants. The Phanerozoic eon has three eras the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic. The Paleozoic era started with the Cambrian explosion. The Mesozoic era was the dinosaurs and conifers time. The Cenozoic era is the time of the mammals and birds. Pangaea was the theory that the earth was once one big…

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    1. The Tasman Orogeny is represented in the basement rocks or eastern Australia. The rocks make up one third of Australia’s landmass. The orogeny extends along the eastern seaboard from the Tasmania in the south to Queensland in the north. In the early Paleozoic to early Mesozoic Australia was located on the eastern side of the Gondwana super continent. It was situated above Antarctica to the northeast of India. The tectonic processes that increased in the size of the…

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