Deciduous means that a tree’s leaves fall off for part of each year. India has two kinds of deciduous forest– dry and moist. We’ll just
The Deccan Traps and the Dinosaurs
“Trap” means “step” when talking about huge basalt lava piles like this one. Erosion shapes those old flows into a series of giant staircases. The
Guest Videos: What’s Earth Got That Other Planets Don’t?
No, not moss, lichen, and grass. Plate tectonics! That split in the ground of Iceland shown above is where two tectonic plates are spreading apart.
Tigers, The World’s Biggest Cat
There’s much more to these fabulous big cats than looks, but first off, who’s up for some gorgeous tiger images and videos? Scientific name(s): Panthera
Guest Video: The Temperate Forest
That’s temperate in terms of a mellow climate . . . . . . but it needs some big orange-yellow striped cats, like those we’re
Toba
For all we know, the YTT supereruption at Toba did happen on June 16, 70,000-and-something, B.C. Let’s say, then, that today is the 74th millennial
