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b.) power point & presentation or google slides
3.) early humans?
1.) https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/world-history-beginnings/origin-humans-early-societies/a/where-did-humans-come-from#:~:text=Homo%20sapiens%20is%20part%20of,in%20eastern%20and%20southern%20Africa.
2.) https://www.history.com/topics/pre-history/hunter-gatherers

Work Cited:
1.) “First Humans: Homo Sapiens &amp; Early Human Migration (Article).” Khan Academy, Khan Academy, www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/world-history-beginnings/origin-humans-early-societies/a/where-did-humans-come-from#:~:text=Homo%20sapiens%20is%20part%20of,in%20eastern%20and%20southern%20Africa.

2.) History.com Editors. “Hunter-Gatherers.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 5 Jan. 2018, www.history.com/topics/pre-history/hunter-gatherers.

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rhinos
google slides

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0722-0
2.http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150518-the-epic-history-of-rhinos#:~:text=Nobody%20is%20quite%20sure%20how,modern%20horses%2C%20zebras%20and%20tapirs.
3. https://research.amnh.org/paleontology/perissodactyl/evolution/groups/rhinocerotidae

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Add your MLA Citations to the bottom of your note.
https://www.easybib.com/dashboard

Works Cited:

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Google slides, elephants
1).http://paleosleuths.org/elephants.html#:~:text=Elephants%20belong%20to%20the%20order%20Proboscidea%E2%80%94animals%20with%20trunks.&text=Elephants%20evolved%20primarily%20in%20the,extinct%20by%2010%2C000%20years%20ago.
2.)https://www.sanparks.org/parks/kruger/elephants/about/evolution.php

Work Cited
Marcuson, Mark.

“About the Animals: Elephants.”

Paleo Sleuths - Digging Deeper, University of Nebraska State Museum

http://paleosleuths.org/elephants.html#:~:text=Elephants%20evolved%20primarily%20in%20the,extinct%20by%2010%2C000%20years%20ago.&text=Some%20scientists%20also%20argue%20that,a%20role%20in%20their%20extinction.

Park Kruger National.

“South African National Parks - SanParks - Official Website - Accommodation, Activities, Prices, Reservations.”

SanParks

www.sanparks.org/parks/kruger/elephants/about/evolution.php.

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google slides
apes
sorces:
1. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/biology2xmaster/chapter/the-evolution-of-primates/

2. https://www2.palomar.edu/anthro/earlyprimates/early_2.htm

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Google slides
Dolphins
1) https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Evolution_of_Dolphins
2) https://www.dolphin-way.com/dolphins-the-facts/evolution/

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b.) google slides
moss
https://basicbiology.net/plants/non-vascular/mosses
https://www.anbg.gov.au/bryophyte/what-is-moss.html

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Google Slides
Koalas
https://www.inverse.com/article/59977-koala-retrovirus-is-forcing-it-to-evolve
https://phys.org/news/2010-02-koala-evolution.html

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c) Art project
Snakes

1.
https://reptile-savvy.weebly.com/evolution-of-snakes.html
2. https://www.earthhistory.org.uk/transitional-fossils/lizard-to-snake

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google slides
polar bear
https://polarbearsinternational.org/polar-bears/name-evolution/

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/arctic-bears-how-grizzlies-evolved-into-polar-bears/777/

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Google slides
eye color of humans

https://www.thoughtco.com/evolution-of-eye-color-1224778

https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2015/09/04/4294967.htm

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Research Paper
The evolution of Marine Iguanas

1. https://www.santacruzgalapagoscruise.com/
2. https://oceana.org/

Works Cited:
1. Oceana, Oceana.org, oceana.org/
2.  Klassen, Christopher. “Marine Iguanas in Galapagos: Fascinating Evolutionary Adaptations.” Santa Cruz Galapagos Cruise, 13 Nov. 2017, www.santacruzgalapagoscruise.com/marine-iguanas-in-galapagos/.

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research paper or google slide
Chimps
https://www.chimpworlds.com/chimpanzee-evolution/

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Google slides
Whales
https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evograms_03
The Evolution of Whales, evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evograms_03.

https://us.whales.org/whales-dolphins/how-did-whales-evolve/#:~:text=Both%20hippos%20and%20whales%20evolved,about%2050%20million%20years%20ago.&text=Unlike%20the%20hippo's%20ancestor%2C%20whale,of%20about%208%20million%20years.
“How Did Whales Evolve?” Whale & Dolphin Conservation USA, 17 Oct. 2019, us.whales.org/whales-dolphins/how-did-whales-evolve/.

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Blue Moon Butterflies
Google Slides
1. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/but-madam-butterfly-where/#:~:text=In%20one%20of%20the%20swiftest,spanned%20less%20than%20a%20year.
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8mdmkT1ZTQ

Works Cited:
1.) Basu, Sourish. “But Madame Butterfly, Where Are All the Males?” Scientific American, Scientific American, 13 July 2007, www.scientificamerican.com/article/but-madam-butterfly-where/#:~:text=In%20one%20of%20the%20swiftest,spanned%20less%20than%20a%20year.

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Pandas
Google slides
1.https://allthatsinteresting.com/panda-fossils-europe
2.https://www.newscientist.com/article/2151717-the-first-ancestors-of-giant-pandas-probably-lived-in-europe/#:~:text=A%20bear%20very%20similar%20to,has%20survived%20through%20evolutionary%20time.
(Works Cited)
1. Serena, Katie. “Giant Pandas Originated In Europe - Not China - New Discovery Suggests.” All That's Interesting, All That's Interesting, 1 Nov. 2017, https://allthatsinteresting.com/panda-fossils-europe
2.  Fox-Skelly, Jasmin. “The First Ancestors of Giant Pandas Probably Lived in Europe.” New Scientist, NS, 27 Oct. 2017, www.newscientist.com/article/2151717-the-first-ancestors-of-giant-pandas-probably-lived-in-europe/#:~:text=A%20bear%20very%20similar%20to,has%20survived%20through%20evolutionary%20time.

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Google slides
White Tiger
1.)
https://animalsanswers.com/where-do-white-tigers-come-from/
2.) https://bigcatrescue.org/abuse-issues/issues/white-tigers/

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Google Slides
Sloths / Giant Ground Sloths

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The giant ground sloth was an herbivore and preferred living in forests along rivers or lakes.

Credit: AuntSpray | Shutterstock

Giant ground sloths were large, lumbering beasts that lived in the Americas during the Ice Age. They were directly related to today's modern sloths. They were also distantly related to anteaters and armadillos.

One species of ground sloth is named after Thomas Jefferson. The future third president had a well-known interest in fossils, and a friend had sent him some bones that had been found in a cave in West Virginia. Jefferson first thought the bones belonged to a large lion and called it the "Great Claw," or Megalonyx, according to the Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia. In 1797, as he was preparing a paper on the find for the American Philosophical Society, he saw an engraving of a sloth skeleton and realized that his fossil was similar and that his classification was wrong. Later, Jefferson was credited with discovering the extinct sloth, which was named Megalonyx jeffersonii.

The six modern species of sloths are all arboreal, so they are called tree sloths. These sloths are small-bodied and weigh less than 20 pounds. Many of their extinct relatives were much larger and lived on the ground. Because of this, they are referred to as ground sloths.

Megalonyx jeffersonii was the largest of the ground sloths in family Megalonychidae, reaching the size of an ox when fully grown, said Ken Wilkins, an associate dean for sciences and professor of biology at Baylor University. Megalonyx sloths grew to around 9.8 feet (3 meters) long and weighed up to 2,205 lbs. (1,000 kilograms), according to the San Diego Zoo.

Giant ground sloths ( Megalonyx jeffersonii) stood about 10 feet tall. The Ancient Ozarks Natural History Museum says this mounted skeleton is the most complete and best preserved specimen ever found in Missouri.

Credit: Tim Sharp

Giant ground sloths evolved in South America around 35 million years ago. Around 8 million years ago, they migrated into North America, according to the San Diego Natural History Museum.

Giant ground sloths preferred forests along rivers or lakes, but they also lived during the Pleistocene period, also known as the Great Ice Age. At its peak, as much as 30 percent of the Earth's surface was covered by glaciers and parts of the northern oceans were frozen, according to the San Diego Natural History Museum. This made for a very cold environment that few animals could endure.

By the end of the Great Ice Age, around 11,700 years ago, many believe that the giant ground sloths had become extinct. Some argue that they were around for many more thousands of years, though, surviving on islands in the Caribbean.

Ground sloths were herbivores, meaning they ate vegetation. Their peg-like teeth were ideal for this diet, but they also had other body parts that played a large part in their meals. "They had long curved claws, likely an adaptation for foraging for grabbing branches and stripping foliage from tree limbs, as well as for protection from predators," Wilkins told Live Science.

Their hind foot structure and posture of the ground sloths also helped it with meal time. They likely relied on their robust hind feet, in combination with a stout tail, to support their massive bodies when rearing on their hindquarters to reach high into trees for forage, Wilkins explained.

Megalonyx fossils have been recovered from about 150 sites across North America, according to the Illinois State Museum. Some have been found as far north as Alaska and the Northwest Territories of Canada. They have also been found in California, Arizona and New Mexico, as well as northern Mexico. In the Midwest, most of them have been found in caves, including sites in Missouri, Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.

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Giant ground sloths were large, lumbering beasts that lived in the Americas during the Ice Age. They were directly related to today's modern sloths. They were also distantly related to anteaters and armadillos. One species of ground sloth is named after Thomas Jefferson.