notIndoEuropean language spoken there today).Then there are variety of languages spoken by Native Americans; by black Africans; by the Chinese and other people of the Far East; by the Polynesians; by the Australian Aborigines, and so on.There are even languages that have no known connections with and other─such as ancient Sumerian and modern Basque.If all of these were studied, might it be ...
900,000 years old. And there are hominids older than that, too (they seem to have evolved in eastern and southern Africa, which isn't surprising since that is where our closest non-hominid relatives, chimpanzees and gorillas, live.) In Olduvai Gorge in East Africa, hominid skulls and primitive tools were discovered in rocks that surprised scientists by proving to be about 1.8 million years ...
time the weight of the largest insect.The heaviest bird capable of flight, the Kori bustard of eastern and southern Africa, may weigh as much as 40 pounds, 20 times that of the largest bat. At that weight, however, in can just barely fly. Some albatrosses, which are not quite that heavy, have the widest wing spread--up to 10 feet.The pterosaurs has membranous wings like the bat, but whereas,in ...