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Tundra
The tundra is the coldest of the biomes. It also receives low amounts of precipitation, making the tundra similar to a desert.
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Triceratops
These four-footed plant-eaters defended themselves with large horns, one above each eye and one above the nostrils. A large frill of bone extended from the back of the skull over the neck,
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Freshwater Wetlands
Wetlands brim with life: microscopic animals and plants, fish, amphibians, birds and mammals. Wetlands also have their special plant communities - rooted plants like reeds, sedges, and waterlilies in the shallows and floating plants like duckweed and water hyacinth in deeper water.
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Biomes: The World’s Many Communities
Biomes are the world’s major communities, which are best distinguished by their climate, animals, and plants
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Plesiosaurus
Plesiosaurus inhabited the oceans 200 million years ago. "flying" underwater with four wing like limbs. Its sharp teeth and snapping jaws formed a deadly trap for small aquatic animals. The long necked Plesiosaurus gave its name to the plesiosaurs, a group of flesh eating marine reptiles that are extinct. Along with the dolphin like ichthyosaurs and other marine reptiles, plesiosaurs were the "sea dragons" that inhabited the seas from 200 to 65 million years ago, while the dinosaurs were dominant on land
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Aquatic Biomes
Water covers about 75% of our planet. From oceans to rivulets, aquatic biomes are host to a wide variety of life-forms, and minerals, from the most common algae to the most mysterious deep-sea creature.
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Diplodocus
Diplodocus was one of the longest animals ever to walk the earth
http: //carnegiemnh.org/carnegiesdinosaurs/dipl...