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Megafauna

Interestingly, the Actodus simus still lives today and is thirty percent larger than the grizzly bear ("Pleistocene Megafauna," 20...

Social Change: How It Shapes And Impacts Society And The Human Family

did not hold much power within society, inasmuch as there was an unyielding sense of control that loomed over the aspects of freed...

4th Grade/Endangered Animals Web Quest

a place where students share ideas. One of the wonder features of the Internet is that they can provide 2-way communication with c...

Public Service And Professionalism

many people and industries alike; however, Althen et al (2002) note how it is by way of such an objective that one becomes labeled...

Internet-Based Activities

the site entitled Endangered Specie.com, The Rarest Info Around, which is sponsored by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. This site...

Entomology Cases: Compare/Contrast

who were also at the site of the attack; without this intrinsic connection, it is highly probable that the correlation would have ...

Overview of the Nervous System of Humans and Animals

In two pages this comparative analysis of the nervous systems of various species and human beings is presented. There are two sou...

Alaska's Glacial Moraine Succession

exposed rock of the moraines: "the rebirth of the temperate rainforest begins, with alder, willow,...

Bird Beak Precipitation and Morphology

environmental parameters outcompeted those who are not as well adapted. In other words, animals which are anatomically well-suite...

Humans, Animals, and Moral Obligations

to maintain a state of consciousness is no proof that it does not exist elsewhere. Consciousness is not something specific ...

Arguing Against Genetic Engineering

Even if we ignore the more controversial areas of genetic engineering, areas such as genetic engineering targeting the human...

The Importance of Biodiversity

beyond the "natural" extinction process and is a direct result of mankind and his abuses of the environment. The problem...

Fireflies of the Eastern United States

the females attention away from competing males (Nevins, 1999). Species also vary according to their flight pattern, the time of...

Biodiversity and Climate Change Offer Hope

climactic shifts that are taking place. In short, according to Grossman, mankinds arrogance and refusal to believe that he was a ...

A Tidepool Hermit Crab Consideration

("Marine Life," 2003). Hermit crabs are able to protect the vulnerable part of their bodies through the utilization of an empty sn...

Overview of the Exotic but Very Poisonous Puffer Fish

exist in controlled conditions for economic purposes (Labb?e, 2003, p. 42). Puffer fish earned its name because when threatened, ...

Antibiotics Resisting Bacteria and the Theory of Evolution

are prokaryotic organisms. This translates to mean that their cellular nuclei lack a nuclear membrane. Consequently, even though...

Overview of Early Hominids

suggests that this early hominid was no larger than a modern chimp. However, in order for trained chimps to successfully impersona...

Overview of Merriam's Shrew

considerable difficulty identifying each individual species, inasmuch as they share so many common characteristics. With the exce...

Gracile and Robust Australopithecines and Dental Patterns

robustus, members of the gracile and robust groups, respectively. The others were limited to the region of Ethiopia, the place of...

Mammal and Bird Diversity and Global Spatial Patterns

deserts, forests, and saltwater marshes (1995). Ecosystems serve several functions and may affect climate and other things; they a...

Animal and Plant Evolutionary Examples

Each has a definitive place in the worlds ecology. As our first example of the contention presented above, take the...

Examination of Biodiversity

would occupy only "1.4 percent of the planets land surface, roughly equivalent to Alaska and Texas combined" (2002, 86), and yet a...

Sixteen Microorganisms and Their Impact on Human Health

This paper provides a species overview, diagnostic techniques, and recommended treatment for Staphylococcus aureus, Mycobacterium ...

Regulations and Zoning

In a paper of four pages, the authore reflects on major environmental legislation, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, a...

"The Effects Of Television" By William Henry III

activity and increase in food consumption due in great part to highly effective advertising. The authors support for this argumen...

The Threat to Earth Presented by Global Warming

on global warming: "We know the theory, which says that human activity could be important, but the theory cannot be trusted until ...

The Threat to Earth Presented by Global Warming

on global warming: "We know the theory, which says that human activity could be important, but the theory cannot be trusted until ...

Climate Change

and Vranes). This same organization reported that the ice on the Arctic Sea was the lowest ever in 2007 (Nodvin and Vranes). The d...

Man’s impact on the environment

to what it might mean to other species of animals. When we consider habitat disruption at the hands of development, hundred...