The Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert in the world, located in Northern Africa, and is home to some of the largest dunes in the world. Check out our top facts about The Sahara here.
The parent rock of Wales is dominated by strata ranging from Precambrian time (more than 540 million years ago) to representatives of the Jurassic Period (about 200 million to 145 million years ago). However, glaciers during the Pleistocene blanketed most of the landscape with till (boulder cla...
Little is known about the basking shark’s reproductive cycle, but scientists speculate that gestation takes as long as 3.5 years. Some scientists use growth rings on the sharks vertebrae to estimate age, which suggests that the basking shark’s lifespan may last 30 years or more; however, ot...
With its rich fertile waters, the Atlantic Ocean has been a source of food and livelihood for a large number of cultures around the world for thousands of years. It is a life-giver. This wide expanse of water- the second largest in the world- has also played an instrumental part in som...
Researchers have determined the age of most globigerina ooze planktons be over 200 million years ago, during the Jurassic era. Globigerina ooze consists of foraminiferous shells and was first identified when laying transatlantic telegraph cables. ...
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While it’s fun to imagine a world where dinosaurs and humans are alive during the same period, it’s probably not the best idea – we’ve all seen how it goes in Jurassic Park! The next best thing is to learn all we can about these ancient reptiles and sit back and let our imagin...
Dinosaurs, a group of extinct animals, inhabited Earth during the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods. These eras, indelibly recorded in Earth's history, showed a variety of weather and vegetation conducive to a range of dinosaur habitats. Click f
Interesting facts about the Big Island The Hawaiian Islands are a chain of volcanic islands in the North Pacific Ocean. The big island, or as it’s also known, Hawaii, is built from five different shield volcanoes that erupted at different times, overlapping one another. ...
So many sightings of the mysterious large animal have been made in Glouchester Bay that the London Linne Society has investigated the case to describe the alleged monster. On the other hand, in Cadboro Bay, off the coast of Canada, a huge animal, which even received the Latin nameCadborosau...