Paleontology

thumb|right|Bust of the paleontologist Georges Cuvier (left) and a cast skeleton of [[Palaeotherium magnum (named by Cuvier in 1804, right), Cuvier Museum of Montbéliard]]

chemical reaction occurring when roasting, baking, or frying

processes by which organisms evolved on Earth

joining together along a major fault zone, of separate terranes, tectonic units that have different plate tectonic, metamorphic and paleogeographic histories

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thumb|upright=1.2|Biozone types. Each rectangle represents bodies of sedimentary rocks and each line a different taxon. The arrows indicate the taxon first or last appearance. In biostratigraphy, biostratigraphic units or biozones are intervals of geological strata that are defined on the basis of their characteristic fossil taxa, as opposed to a lithostratigraphic unit which is defined by the lithological properties of the surrounding rock.

thumb|270px|The Islamabad-e Gharb Plain near Wezmeh Cave Wezmeh Cave is an archaeological site near Islamabad Gharb, western Iran, around southwest of the capital Tehran. The site was discovered in 1999 and excavated in 2001 by a team of Iranian archaeologists under the leadership of Kamyar Abdi. Wezmeh cave was re-excavated by a team under direction of Fereidoun Biglari in 2019.

Curling ram horns in Egyptian mythology

volcano in Russia

A paleoburrow is an underground shelter excavated by extinct paleo-vertebrate megafauna that lived in the prehistoric era. Most paleoburrows are likely made by giant armadillos, pampatheres, and/or large ground sloths, depending on their size.'''''' Thousands of examples have been identified across South America, mostly in the Brazilian states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul.