Volcano erupting When was the Cretaceous period? During the Cretaceous period, beginning about 145 million years ago, the continents continued to drift away from each other. Plate tectonics Back to [...]
History of honey: Beehives in Europe, about 1400 AD Honey in antiquity All through antiquity, honey kept on being very important as a sweetener, a preservative, and a medicine throughout [...]
Bee-keeping reaches West Asia: a wax writing tablet from Uluburun shipwreck off the coast of modern Turkey (1300 BC) Bee-keeping reaches the Eastern Mediterranean By 2400 BC, people were keeping [...]
Early history of honey: A chimpanzee smashing a beehive to get honey When did bees start to make honey? Bees first began to make honey about 200 million years ago, [...]
History of almonds: Almonds drying after harvest (Southern Spain) Where do almonds come from? Wild almonds are related to peaches and apples. Almonds probably evolved about the same time, around five [...]
Chinese food Chinese food: rice Rice was the first grain that people farmed in China, and rice is such a basic food in China that the Chinese words for "cook" [...]
Daffodil with petals and pistil in the middle. Take a long walk around your neighborhood and the park in the late spring and look at all the flowers you see. [...]
Flowering plants: Lavender flowers smell wonderful! Before there were flowers... For millions of years, the Earth was covered with ferns and pine trees and moss and mushrooms, without any flowers, grass, [...]
Evolution of seeds: Dandelion seeds What is a seed? A seed is the egg cell of a plant, with a hard wrapper around it so it can survive on its [...]
Fossil spider from the Cretaceous era Spiders evolved from annelid worms beginning about 540 million years ago. They were among the first land creatures with more than one cell. At about the same time, the [...]
