13 results for “group”
Space & the Universe
Galaxies and the Milky Way
Group, a loose family of more than fifty galaxies spanning about ten million light-years. The two heavyweights
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Animals
Mammals
group that ranges from a 2-gram bat to a 150-tonne whale. We are mammals
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Matter, Energy & Physics
The Periodic Table
groups. On the far left, group one, are the alkali metals, lithium, sodium and potassium among
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Animals
Reptiles and Amphibians
groups are still with us, in enormous variety, and being "cold-blooded" turns out to be less
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Plants & Fungi
Carnivorous Plants
groups of plants did exactly that, evolving traps from ordinary leaves. The same solution arose independently
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Life & Biology
Evolution
group appearing after and never before the one it descended from. Fossils of whales with legs
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Life & Biology
Dinosaurs and Mass Extinctions
group of small, feathered, fast-running dinosaurs evolved longer arms, lighter bones and the ability to glide
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Plants & Fungi
Fungi
groups of life. Only about 150,000 species have been described, and estimates of the real
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Space & the Universe
Dark Matter and Dark Energy
group will eventually recede faster than light can cross the gap, and the sky will slowly
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Animals
The Octopus
group and parents to learn from. The octopus has none of these, and is intelligent anyway
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Animals
Whales and Dolphins
groups. The baleen whales, including the blue, humpback, grey and right whales, have no teeth. Instead
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Animals
Animal Migration
groups, from whales to geese, the young learn the way from their elders. Where those elders
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Animals
Insects
group matches. They are food for most birds, freshwater fish, amphibians and many mammals, and for two billion
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