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Major Mass Extinctions
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Do Fossil Fuels Really Come from Fossils?
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10 Ways of Looking at Cells
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Coral Bleaching: A Threat to Our Reefs
Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvieri).
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Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)
6 Important Mughal Emperors
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How Deadly Is Quicksand?
illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum
Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs
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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
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9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes
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Will Light-Speed Space Travel Ever Be Possible?
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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

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Born September 9, 1794 • Bath • England
Died November 11, 1871 (aged 77) • Bristol • England
Subjects Of Study coral • Devonian Period • fossil
Mantell, detail of an engraving
Gideon Algernon Mantell
British paleontologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Sir Richard Owen, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Owen
British anatomist and paleontologist
Charles William Peach
English naturalist and geologist
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
Otto Heinrich Schindewolf
German paleontologist
ameghino, florentino
Florentino Ameghino
Argentine anthropologist
Joachim Barrande
French geologist
Marcellin Boule
Marcellin Boule
French geologist
Albert Oppel
German geologist and paleontologist
Robert Kidston
British paleobotanist
Conybeare, William Daniel
William Daniel Conybeare
British geologist
William Joscelyn Arkell
British paleontologist
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Smith, William
William Smith
British geologist
Beche, Sir Henry Thomas De La
Sir Henry Thomas De La Beche
British geologist
Fuchs, Vivian Ernest
Vivian Fuchs
British explorer and geologist
Charles Lapworth
British geologist
Bowerbank
James Scott Bowerbank
British naturalist and paleontologist
Herbert Harold Read
British geologist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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