Eurasia was not extensively glaciated during the last glacial advance, unlike North America. |
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In contrast, metatherian fossils from the Late Cretaceous are exclusively from Eurasia and North America. |
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The smallest merganser, the Smew of Eurasia sometimes visits America's northeastern shore. |
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As humans moved north into Eurasia from Africa and, later, south from Alaska across the Americas, proboscidean range contracted correspondingly. |
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The bean goose breeds along northern Eurasia from the highlands of Norway in the west to Kamchatka in the east. |
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Note that restrictions on the building of religious edifices by minorities are common in Eurasia. |
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By the Early Miocene, deinotheres had grown to the size of a small elephant, and had migrated to Eurasia. |
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The cyprinoids, which are absent from South America, dominate the freshwaters of tropical Asia and the north-temperate zone of Eurasia. |
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Bathonian uplift may be attributed to collision of the Moesian block with Eurasia. |
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However, this union enabled more vigorous exchanges of flora and fauna between Africa and Eurasia. |
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During this time vast expanses of North America and Eurasia were periodically covered with enormous continental glaciers. |
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Of inventions which proved to have major significance, only the lens and clockwork travelled in the opposite direction, eastwards across Eurasia. |
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It's also the future of Russia itself, and therewith of the whole of Eurasia. |
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Particularly refreshing is the adoption in this volume of the notion of Eurasia as an integral ecumene of economic and cultural interaction. |
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This superfamily, called Dene-Caucasian, was probably used throughout Eurasia before either Nostratic, or Eurasiatic, spread. |
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It is of interest that a plant native to Eurasia would host such substantial numbers of phytophagous arthropods in North America. |
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For instance, black and brown rats were brought to America, and gray squirrels and muskrats to Eurasia. |
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Polar bears probably diverged from brown bear ancestors near the Arctic coast of Eurasia early in the Ice Age. |
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Boreal Owls, known in Eurasia as Tengmalm's Owls, are small owls of the north. |
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The water shrew of Eurasia weakens its aquatic prey with a similar saliva poison. |
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A power that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world's three most advanced and economically productive regions. |
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I can't think of a volume that has better interpreted the linguistic history of Eurasia, from Sumerian onwards, or of the entire world in the post-Columbian era. |
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The most parsimonious trees suggest that the history of anguine lizards in western Eurasia and Morocco is older than anguine history in North America. |
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Canlamine impatiens L., the narrowleaf bittercress, is an annual or biennial herb native to Eurasia that has become naturalized in many parts of the eastern United States. |
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The Menderes Massif is part of the Menderes-Tauride Block, a post-Permian microcontinent, which is allochthonous with respect to both Eurasia and Gondwana. |
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Many of the areas that once supported Fremont cottonwoods have been colonized by tamarisk, an aggressive, water-sucking invader from Eurasia, also known as salt-cedar. |
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In Eurasia and North America, the spread of grasslands forced an evolutionary change in herbivorous mammals, with the forest browsers giving way to the prairie grazers. |
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Although the llama was used as a pack animal in South America, it could not compare with the horses and camels which made transcontinental links possible in Eurasia. |
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Russia shows no sign of being willing to yield power and influence to the Americans in Eurasia. |
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Ian Bremmer is the president of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm. |
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A current population estimate is needed to help assess the influence that trapping for falconry has on the population as it migrates through Eurasia. |
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For example, the woolly rhinoceros, giant deer, the moose-like giraffe shown in the slide, and the cave bear were found only in Eurasia and Africa. |
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The characteristic tuffs of the Balder Formation originate from phreatic eruptions from the incipient continental rift zone between Eurasia and Greenland to the west. |
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In Eurasia the fauna included early deer and giraffes, the giant indricatheres and chalicotheres that were quite different from the American types. |
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And therefore, we have to be concerned with the affairs of Eurasia. |
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The peninsula, in effect a half-island appended to Eurasia, is burdened with geographic features that tend to encourage predatory behavior on the part of the great powers. |
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The Eurasia Union leader assured Gubareva that Moscow will support its friends in all kinds of civil conflicts in Ukraine. |
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Any one of the late agrarian empires in Eurasia could, in principle, have overwhelmed the Incas and the Aztecs almost as easily as the Spaniards did. |
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Eurasia is the globe's largest continent and is geopolitically axial. |
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The collision was followed by rifting of the Cimmerian suture during Early Jurassic time to form a new oceanic basin between the Taurides-Anatolides and Eurasia. |
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Therefore, the flora and fauna of Beringia were more related to those of Eurasia rather than North America. |
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The transition out of the Stone Age occurred between 6000 BCE and 2500 BCE for much of humanity living in North Africa and Eurasia. |
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This orchid is native to southwestern Eurasia, from western Europe through the Mediterranean region eastwards to Iran. |
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Northern Eurasia was resettled as the glaciers of the last glacial maximum retreated. |
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Cotton was domesticated in Peru by 5,600 years ago, and was independently domesticated in Eurasia at an unknown time. |
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In any case a wave of Mode 2 then spread across Eurasia, resulting in use of both there. |
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In some regions, especially in northern Eurasia, there is evidence for a cold period known as the Older Dryas interrupting the interstadial. |
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However, as depicted in the maps here, they have at times extended well into Eurasia and Southeastern Europe. |
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Before about 1500, the network of communication between cultures was that of Eurasia. |
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Europe is also a subcontinent within Eurasia in geological terms, making the whole of Russia a part of the Eurasian continent. |
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The country has a higher proportion of higher education graduates than any other country in Eurasia. |
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Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, as well as the most widely spoken Slavic language. |
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In Eurasia, the Kalash are one of very few instances of surviving polytheism. |
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After achieving actual or nominal dominion over much of Eurasia and successfully conquering China, Kublai pursued further expansion. |
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The country's central location in Eurasia and Western Asia, and its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, give it geostrategic importance. |
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Horse bones from this time period, the late Pleistocene, are found in Europe, Eurasia, Beringia, and North America. |
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Chinese celadons were exported to most of Eurasia, but not Europe, between roughly the Tang and the early Ming dynasties. |
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Obligatory plural marking of all nouns is found throughout western and northern Eurasia and in most parts of Africa. |
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The great empires of Eurasia were all located on temperate and subtropical coastal plains. |
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It is a sedentary species, breeding across northern Eurasia in moorland and bog areas near to woodland, mostly boreal. |
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Like a supercolossus the Soviet Union sprawls over Eurasia with one foot on the heart of Europe and the second in the waters of the Pacific. |
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After becoming an independent country two decades ago, Almaty began improving its status as the number one winter sport center in Eurasia. |
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Uralic languages are spoken in a broad range stretching across Northern Eurasia from Scandinavia to the Yenisei River in Siberia. |
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Relatively few wild avian species, rather than anseriform species as a whole, may have contributed to most of the spread of HPAI within Eurasia. |
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Genetic identity, phylogeography, and systematics of ruffe Gymnocephalus in the North American Great Lakes and Eurasia. |
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The Mongols enslaved skilled individuals, women and children and marched them to Karakorum or Sarai, whence they were sold throughout Eurasia. |
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The sea level was lower than now and Britain was connected by land bridge to Ireland and Eurasia. |
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A prelude to the Age of Discovery was a series of European expeditions crossing Eurasia by land in the late Middle Ages. |
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The last glaciation centered on the huge ice sheets of North America and Eurasia. |
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Descendants of these mammoths moved north and eventually covered most of Eurasia. |
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Mammoths had moved to isolated spots in Eurasia, where they disappeared completely. |
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Eurasia has been the host of many ancient civilizations, including those based in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley and China. |
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During most of the Neolithic age of Eurasia, people lived in small tribes composed of multiple bands or lineages. |
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Trade between western Europe and the rest of Eurasia suffered a severe blow when the Roman Empire fell in the 5th century. |
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Today, The United Methodist Church in Eurasia has 116 congregations, each with a native pastor. |
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Like many other parts of Eurasia, these territories were overrun by the Mongols. |
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In Eurasia, large lakes developed as a result of the runoff from the glaciers. |
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Distinguishing the golden eagle from other Aquila eagles in Eurasia is potentially a greater identification problem. |
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The ecozones occupied by golden eagles are roughly concurrent with those of Eurasia. |
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They probably diverged in the North Pacific, spreading westwards into Eurasia and eastwards into North America. |
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Eurasian beavers are one of the largest living species of rodents and are the largest rodent native to Eurasia. |
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Since sea levels were low due to so much water tied up in glaciers, such marshlands would have occurred all along the southern coasts of Eurasia. |
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Meanwhile, there was also expansion up all major rivers in between, and also around the eastern coastline of Eurasia. |
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The point of origin of R1b is thought to lie in Eurasia, most likely in Western Asia. |
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When Eurasia is regarded as a single continent, Europe is treated as a subcontinent. |
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Some geographers regard Europe and Asia together as a single continent, dubbed Eurasia. |
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The Great Lakes formed and giant mammals thrived in parts of North America and Eurasia not covered in ice. |
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Sturgeon range from subtropical to subarctic waters in North America and Eurasia. |
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The species is distributed across much of northern Eurasia and North America. |
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In Eurasia, the size of bears roughly increases from the west to the east, with the largest bears there native to eastern Russia. |
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In Eurasia, red foxes may be preyed upon by leopards, caracals and Eurasian lynxes. |
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Beavers appeared in North America in the late Eocene before spreading to Eurasia. |
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By the Miocene, when Africa had collided with Asia, African rodents such as the porcupine began to spread into Eurasia. |
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Some deer have a circumpolar distribution in both North America and Eurasia. |
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This ancestor and its relatives occurred throughout North America and Eurasia, but were on the decline by at least 46 Mya. |
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Fossil evidence suggests that the earliest members of the superfamily Cervoidea appeared in Eurasia in the Miocene. |
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Cervus genus ancestors of red deer first appear in fossil records 12 million years ago during the Miocene in Eurasia. |
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Black specimens are more common in North America than in Eurasia, with about half the wolves in Yellowstone National Park being black. |
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The house sparrow originated in the Middle East and spread, along with agriculture, to most of Eurasia and parts of North Africa. |
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Research suggests that beeches in Eurasia differentiated fairly late in evolutionary history, during the Miocene. |
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Ivies are natives of Eurasia and North Africa but have been introduced to North America and Australia. |
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It is surrounded by the land masses of Eurasia, North America, Greenland, and by several islands. |
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Geographically, Asia is the major eastern constituent of the continent of Eurasia with Europe being a northwestern peninsula of the landmass. |
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Eurasia was connected in turn to Africa, which contributed further to the species that made their way to North America. |
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Other similar basal primates were widespread in Eurasia and Africa during the tropical conditions of the Paleocene and Eocene. |
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A large-scale study of ancient genetics, published in the June 11 Nature, provides evidence for migrations and lactose intolerance in Bronze Age Eurasia. |
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It could be a white-tailed eagle, a very close relative of the bald eagle with a widespread range in northern Eurasia and a small population in southwestern Greenland. |
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Rutilus is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae found in Eurasia. |
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A few species are also found in large parts of Eurasia and North America. |
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In geology, Eurasia is often considered as a single rigid megablock. |
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Having achieved real or nominal dominion over much of Eurasia, and having successfully conquered China, Kublai was in a position to look beyond China. |
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They battled against the most powerful armies and warriors in Eurasia. |
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Many had migrated west across Eurasia with animals or people, or were brought by traders from Asia, so diseases of two continents were suffered by all occupants. |
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The reindeer has an important economic role for all circumpolar peoples, including the Saami, Nenets, Khants, Evenks, Yukaghirs, Chukchi, and Koryaks in Eurasia. |
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In Eurasia rodents did well, while primate distribution declined. |
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A major branch of the Passeri, parvorder Passerida, expanded deep into Eurasia and Africa, where a further explosive radiation of new lineages occurred. |
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More specifically, a variant of mitochondrial DNA called X2a found in many Native Americans has been traced to western Eurasia, while not being found in eastern Eurasia. |
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Alternatively it may have come across the Sinai Peninsula into Asia, from shortly after 50,000 yrs BP, resulting in the bulk of the human populations of Eurasia. |
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Northward underthrusting of India beneath Eurasia generates numerous earthquakes and consequently makes this area one of the most seismically hazardous regions on Earth. |
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However, evidence for archaic admixture in modern humans, both in Africa and later, throughout Eurasia has recently been suggested by a number of studies. |
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According to Eurasia Review, the Vlach community in Serbia is divided between those who consider themselves Serbian and those who declare themselves Romanian Vlachs. |
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During the Cenozoic, North America was periodically connected to Eurasia via Beringia, allowing multiple migrations back and forth to unite the faunas of the two continents. |
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The Caribbean Sea had been unknown to the populations of Eurasia until 1492, when Christopher Columbus sailed into Caribbean waters on a quest to find a sea route to Asia. |
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The South Atlantic did not open until the Cretaceous when Laurasia started to rotate clockwise and moved northward with North America to the north, and Eurasia to the south. |
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Located mostly in the Arctic north polar region in the middle of the Northern Hemisphere, the Arctic Ocean is almost completely surrounded by Eurasia and North America. |
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Anguis fragilis, the slowworm, is a legless lizard native to Eurasia. |
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Evidence suggests that the genus Cygnus evolved in Europe or western Eurasia during the Miocene, spreading all over the Northern Hemisphere until the Pliocene. |
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Honey bees and wasps are important supplemental foods in Eurasia from the furthest west of their range, in Spain, to the furthest east, in Hokkaido. |
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Later, about 70,000 years ago, perhaps after the Toba catastrophe, a small group left the Levant to populate Eurasia, Australia and later the Americas. |
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During Upper Paleolithic times they spread throughout Africa, Eurasia, Oceania, and the Americas, and they encountered archaic humans along the way during these migrations. |
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During the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, this part of Eurasia was covered by shallow seas that formed the northern margins of the Tethys Ocean. |
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Italy also receives species from the Balkans, Eurasia, the Middle East. |
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In Eurasia and Africa, predators include the wolf, leopard, tiger, lion, dhole, Asiatic black bear, crocodile, spotted hyena, and other carnivores. |
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During the late Paleogene, when the family presumably originated, much of Eurasia was covered by shallow seas, as the Indian Plate finally attached to the mainland. |
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In addition, a zone of permafrost stretched southward from the edge of the glacial sheet, a few hundred kilometres in North America, and several hundred in Eurasia. |
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Since antiquity, varieties of quartz have been the most commonly used minerals in the making of jewelry and hardstone carvings, especially in Eurasia. |
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Mesolithic has different time spans in different parts of Eurasia. |
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The northwestern region of Eurasia has a very long coastline, and has arguably been more influenced by its maritime history than any other continent. |
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The region was renowned for shipbuilding in the medieval period, when its shipyards catered to major powers in Eurasia, including the Mughals and Ottomans. |
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The steppe bison spread through the northern parts of North America and lived in Eurasia until around 11,000 years ago and North America until 4,000 to 8,000 years ago. |
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The steppe bison spread across Eurasia, and all proceeding contemporary and successive species are believed to have derived from the steppe bison. |
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Humans first settled in Eurasia between 60,000 and 125,000 years ago. |
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However, the rigidity of Eurasia is debated based on the paleomagnet data. |
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