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Prehistoric Animals

Prehistoric animals represent the vast majority of extinct animals. Through exploration, scientists are piecing together from the first sea dwelling organisms to modern day species. Types of questions covered are about animals who existed before recorded history and the ever popular debate as to what caused the dinosaur extinction.

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What treatments were used in prehistoric times?

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Stone age people were illiterate and thus believed in superstition. Like many people in rural areas also.

What are five types of dinosaurs?

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Five types of dinosaurs are sauropods, carnosaurs, therapods, ceratopsians and hadrosaurs

The painted images of animals in prehistoric caves were generally done naturalistically?

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All cave paintings were made by modern humans. They were usually made in caves that had no habitation and were hard to access, so they may have served a religious purpose. Usually the subjects of cave paintings were large animals such as bison, reindeer, horses, mammoths, etc. They also occasionally painted carnivores, such as the cave hyena.

Food chain for grass?

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The following words name things in a desert.Arrange the words to form a food chain.Then,add arrows to show how energy moves throuth the food chain.The words are mouse grass sun bacteria coyote.

What was the first animal to have a pentadactyl limb?

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This is unlikely to ever be definitively known, as the fossil record of early tetrapods is incomplete, and the vast gulf of time that separates us from them (360+ million years) compounds the problem. However, we do have some fossils, and from them it is clear that the earliest tetrapods had more than 5 toes on each foot (they were polydactylous). Acanthostega had 8, Ichthyostega had 7 and Tulerpeton had 6 - there seems to have been a trend of reduction in the number of toes over time in the tetrapod lineage. The early Anthracosaurs seem to have had 5 toes ancestrally, a trait which they might have passed on to their amniote descendants. However, it seems as though even the early tetrapods like Acanthostega were effectively five-toed, as their forward toes were combined into a single flesh-covered digit.

Can an organism evolve?

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By the process of natural variation and selection by survival of the fittest.

Is little foot the dinosaur a girl?

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Little foot was Apatosaurus or Brontosaurus. You can also call Apatosaurus Brontosaurus.

What animals are rare or extinct becaue o f hunting?

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No species has ever been threatened to extinction due to regulated hunting. In fact, it was hunters who demanded the establishment of our wildlife resource agencies and demanded they set seasons and bag limits.

When you see a thriving population of deer, bear, and many other species- thank a hunter. They brought them back from the era of over exploitation, and keep their populations in balance with the animals available habitat.

What is a mammoths favorite food?

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They were vegetarians, eating leaves, ferns and grasses.

Did the earth experience over a dozen great mass extinction?

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there were 11 mass extintions.1 Precambrian(Paleozoic)2 Cambrian,3 Ordovician,4 Silurian,5 Devonian,6 Carboniferous,7 Permian.(Mesozoic)8 Triassic,9 jurassic,10 Cretaceous.(Cenozoic)11 tertiary, 0 quaternary/today.

What animals survived the mesozoic extinction?

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It depends what your definition of reptile is. Turtles, Crocodiles are all "living fossils", because they were present in the mesozoic era. (of course not in the same shape or size, but in the same species). Some even say that birds are reptiles. (because latest fossils show us that some dinosaurs had feathers). So to answer your question, turtles, crocodiles and birds are all living reptiles from the mesozoic era.

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What habitat conditions do crocodiles like the most?

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for freshwater crocodiles(they like to live near to lakes, rivers., etc..,) and for salt-water crocodiles(they live in sea water and some salty lakes..)..

Who were he prehistoric men?

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There are a number of things that the prehistoric man did. Fishing, hunting and gathering were the main activities they engaged in.

What animals and plants lived in the quaternary period?

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Animals such as PROCOPTODON,DIPROTODON,TOXODON,MAMMUTHUS,DEINOTHERIUM,COELODONTA lived in the quaternary period.Plants such as BIRCH,SWEETGUM lived in the quaternary period, as well as the plants and animals you see around you.

Did gomphotherium have predators?

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This ancient species probably ate aquatic vegetation it scraped from swamps or lakes with its shovel like tusks.

When did the steppe mammoth live?

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Mammoths evolved 5 million years ago, during the end of the Neogene Period. They died out during the Quaternary Period, starting 10,000 years ago, with a few dwarf types surviving until 4,500 years ago.

Did cave people have house pets?

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The pets cavemen had are either unknown or extinct. What I have heard is that those pets were NOT dinosaurs, because dinosaurs were living billions of years before there was anything even remotely similar to a human.

What the name of a scientist who studies prehistoric life?

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The definition of 'pre-historic' assumes that the period was before written records. Obviously easily satisfied for the fossil collectors.

Archaeology concerns itself with the early history of mankind (and other life forms) and attention is usually paid to settlement regions, middens and waste sites, early tool forms and so on. So a knowledge of the food species (botany and zoology) and some knowledge of tool working techniques. e.g. How did they make that ochre paint for the walls.

Recent work in the Pacific in studying the common root of (non-written) languages has helped identify the migration patterns throughout that region.

Which sound travels faster the birdschirping or the whales siging explain how you decided?

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A whale's song travels faster than a bird's chirp. This is because a whale's song travels through water, where sound moves much faster than it does in air.

How did megalodon form?

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Well, it started back awhile ago. When the people that sailed the water did not want people to trade over the sea, they told settlers to not go near the water, for fear of being eaten by something or the big waters that tip and sink ships. Because of this, hardly anyone wanted to fish out into open seas. So, the sharks actually had a chance to grow their full body length. But, now, since so many people around the world are fishing and trapping, the sharks don't have a chance to reach that maximum length. Although, more than 90% of our oceans are unexplored.

What were the pre existing animals of the Cenozoic?

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Animals in the ocean that lived in the Cenozoic period were sponges, coral, starfish, sea urchens, and sand dollars were common as well as brachiopods and cephalopods which were rare. Even oysters, mussels, and snails lived through out the period. Crabs and barnacles were common as well. On land, spiders, centipedes, scorpions, and insects, including butterflies, moths, bees, wasps, ants, beetles, and many others thrived during the Cenozoic era as well.

Why is the megalodon that color?

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No one can say with absolute certainty what color the megalodon was. It is assumed that it followed the same pattern as all comparable animals, with a darker back and a paler belly.

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For hunting adaptations. When prey is above the Megalodon, its darkish blue color blends in with the depths and colors of the ocean. When prey is under the Megalodon, the white underbelly blends in the the bright top of the water, where the sun shines down.

Why did mammoths die out?

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Well as the ice age ended it got warmer which is one factor and also just like many other extinct animals they were hunted by cavemen in various way's such as dropping large boulders onto them when they lure them into to tight gaps.