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Hace 13 horas · The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest living cat species and a member of the genus Panthera native to Asia.It has a powerful, muscular body with a large head and paws, a long tail, and orange fur with black, mostly vertical stripes. It is traditionally classified into nine recent subspecies, though some recognise only two subspecies, mainland Asian tigers and island tigers of the Sunda ...
Hace 13 horas · A stained-glass panel from Canterbury Cathedral, c. 1175 – c. 1180. It depicts the Parable of the Sower, a biblical narrative. In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD. It is the second of the three traditional divisions of Western history: antiquity, medieval, and modern. Major developments ...
Hace 13 horas · Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera (/ k aɪ ˈ r ɒ p t ə r ə /). With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight.Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their very long spread-out digits covered with a thin membrane or patagium.The smallest bat, and arguably the smallest extant mammal, is Kitti's hog-nosed ...
Hace 13 horas · Super Pit gold mine at Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, 2005 Gold-bearing quartz veins in Alaska. Gold mining is the extraction of gold by mining.. Historically, mining gold from alluvial deposits used manual separation processes, such as gold panning.The expansion of gold mining to ores that are not on the surface has led to more complex extraction processes such as pit mining and gold ...
