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Elephants without trunks

Most scientists believe that 50 million years ago there were elephants living in swamps where Egypt is today. But they didn’t look anything like elephants do now. The first elephants didn’t have…

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The Green Kingdom

Indian potatoes

When the Pilgrims came to America they didn’t have much food. But friendly Indians showed them how to grow corn, beans, and squash. And the Indians showed the Pilgrims where to find wild plants to…

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How long, how fast, how hot, how heavy?

Measuring temperature

For thousands of years, people judged the temperature by how they felt. To check the heat of an oven, cooks put a hand into the oven. If the weather felt cold, people put on more clothes. Long, long…

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