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7 Nov 2009
According to plant fossils dating to the period from 85 to 100 million years ago. Alaska had a climate similar to the southern California coast.
In 1912, the German geophysicist Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) noted similarities in fossils collected in the two continents, combined this with geophysical data, and postulated the theory of 'continental drift'.
Chalk is made from tiny plankton fossils.
A team of Canadian palaeontologists working along Hudson Bay in northern Manitoba has discovered the world's largest recorded complete fossil of a trilobite, a many-legged, sea-dwelling animal that lived 445 million years ago.
Ancient Egyptians believed in chromatherapy, the ability to heal with colors: Red stimulates mental energy, yellow stimulates the nerves, blue heals organic disorders such as colds and hay fever.
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