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When were there 29" dragonflies?
How did the dinosaurs evolve?
When did the Delaware Bay begin to form?
Who lived on the Delaware peninsula when the first Europeans arrived?
How did the Europeans change the Delaware Bay?
How has the shape of the Delaware peninsula changed in the last 12,000 years?
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The evolution of the horseshoe crab extends back far before the dawn of human civilization, before the dinosaurs, before flowering plants... back to the era in our planet's history when visible life first appeared.
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Our Evolution section traces the development of the horseshoe crab from the Paleozoic Era and provides an overview of the changes to our planet's geology, climate, flora and fauna from 540 million years ago to the present. Toward the end of the Cenozoic Era, beginning with the Holocene (11,000 BC to the Present), we look specifically at the evolution and development of the Delaware Bay. |
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