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- (mechanical, physical, and biochemical) of living organisms, or to the ... Since the function of a part is related to its structure, physiology ...6 KB (856 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2025
- glaciologist, and geologist, the husband of educator Elizabeth Cabot Cary ... In the early stages of his career, Agassiz made a name for himself ...18 KB (2,718 words) - 04:33, 15 March 2025
- The Paleogene (alternatively Palaeogene) period is an interval of ... The Paleogene period, the first of the Cenozoic era's two periods ...8 KB (1,211 words) - 00:53, 3 November 2025
- Sloth is the common name for any of the slow-moving, New World arboreal ... and generally hanging upside-down from branches with their long, curved claws. ...16 KB (2,352 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2023
- Iguana is both the common name for several of the larger members of ... For humans, they add to the wonder of nature and the green iguana ...16 KB (2,257 words) - 22:53, 15 November 2025
- In zoology, a horn is one of a pair of hard, pointed, often permanent ... While both a bony core and a covering of keratinous material constitute ...10 KB (1,636 words) - 16:20, 25 January 2023
- Species are the basic taxonomic units of biological classification ... Jay Gould, the macroevolutionary patterns of species are typically ones ...23 KB (3,511 words) - 17:36, 14 October 2022
- phylum Echinodermata, and class Asteroidea, of which there are over 1800 known ... Characteristics of sea stars include that they exhibit a superficially ...17 KB (2,546 words) - 04:39, 28 April 2023
- from the Greek for spiny skin) are a phylum of marine invertebrates that are ... terrestrial representatives. Representatives of the phylum can be found at ...11 KB (1,553 words) - 17:27, 11 October 2020
- Cladistics, or phylogenetic systematics, is a system of classifying ... " that represent the evolutionary tree of life. DNA (deoxyribonucleic ...33 KB (4,767 words) - 22:30, 10 December 2023
- somewhat raccoon or bear-like face. A member of the Carnivora order, generally ... They generally are found in the slopes of the south of the Himalayas ...17 KB (2,708 words) - 02:48, 8 December 2022
- for Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate ... (c. 1922), which clarified the behaviour of photons (the particles of light ...13 KB (1,968 words) - 17:03, 23 December 2022
- limbs, a long tail, and a unique covering of large, overlapping body scales ... Asia, pangolins are important parts of terrestrial food chains, consuming ...14 KB (1,993 words) - 11:13, 11 March 2023
- Spongy moth) is the common name for a type of tussock moth, Lymantria dispar ... with numerous predators, they are part of the balance of nature. They ...36 KB (5,396 words) - 16:24, 14 May 2025
- Cassowary is the common name for any of the very large, flightless ... prized delicacy, despite (or perhaps because of) the risk they pose to life ...17 KB (2,480 words) - 14:23, 29 November 2023
- An island or isle is a tract of land that is completely surrounded ... There are two main types of islands: continental islands and oceanic ...19 KB (2,793 words) - 22:00, 13 December 2024
- migratory bird, Ectopistes migratorius, of the Columbidae family, that ... century, the species went from being one of the most abundant birds in ...18 KB (2,794 words) - 18:56, 23 March 2023
- svg|128px|thumb|right|Basic, common levels of modern classification of biological ... In biology, taxonomy is the science of describing, naming, and classifying ...59 KB (8,181 words) - 01:32, 26 July 2024
- in 1755, the university has grown to be one of the largest institutions in ... whose name was later added to the name of the institution in his honor ...19 KB (2,783 words) - 09:52, 1 June 2025
- The nervous system is the network of specialized cells, tissues, and ... peripheral nervous system (PNS), consisting of all the nerves and neurons ...35 KB (5,305 words) - 17:22, 25 February 2025
