Paleontologists now have evidence that dinosaurs lived on all of the continents. At the beginning of the age of dinosaurs (during the Triassic Period, about 230 million years ago) the continents…
+ PLANET EARTH HOW WAS EARTH FORMED? IS EARTH THE SAME ALL THE WAY THROUGH? HOW DOES EARTH SUPPORT LIFE? HOW DOES EARTH MOVE THROUGH SPACE? SEASONS FIND OUT MORE + EARTH…
by Elizabeth Olson photos by Carol M. Highsmith The U.S. National Park Service was created on August 25, 1916, by President Woodrow Wilson. In 1872, Yellowstone National Park became the…
WHAT IS THE TEMPERATURE ON MERCURY? WHAT IS MERCURY’S SURFACE LIKE? FIND OUT MOREA rocky sphere, with a huge iron core, Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. It can sometimes be glimpsed from…
We always talk about what each continent has—which is the biggest, which has the longest river, which has the most people. Now let's see what each continent doesn't have. Here are some things that…
actressBorn: 9/13/1944Birthplace: Weybridge, Surrey, England A former model, she is noted especially for her work in Francois Truffaut's Day for Night (1973), about an actress recovering from a…
Name at birth: Claude VorilhonRaël is the founder of the Raëlian Movement, an "atheistic religion" which he created in 1973. Formerly a race car driver and racing journalist named Claude Vorilhon,…
Tall and athletic, Alexandra Paul played Lt. Stephanie Holden on the TV show Baywatch from 1992-97. Paul's character was generally known as the "smart one" among characters played by Pamela Anderson…
(Encyclopedia) Amecameca Amecameca ämāˌkämāˈkä [key], town, Mexico state, S central Mexico, at the foot of the Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl volcanoes. The sanctuary of El…
(Encyclopedia) Asama, MountAsama, Mountäsäˈmä [key], or Asama-yamaAsama-yama–yäˈmä [key], peak, 8,425 ft (2,568 m) high, central Honshu, Japan, near Komoro. One of the largest and most active…
