- The megapodes, also
known as
incubator birds or
mound-builders, are stocky, medium-large, chicken-like
birds with
small heads and
large feet in the family...
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conicals likely evolved into
linear mounds.
Bird mounds likely came next as
modifying a
linear mound to make a
bird mound required only the
addition of a...
- was
built up of
thousands of
pieces of
quartzite laid in the
mounded shape of a
large bird (102 ft long from head to tail, and 120 ft wide from wing tip...
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Bird eggs are
usually laid in a nest. Most
species create somewhat elaborate nests,
which can be cups, domes, plates,
mounds, or burrows. Some
bird nests...
- myth of the
Heliopolitan form of
ancient Egyptian religion,
Benben was the
mound that
arose from the
primordial waters Nu upon
which the
creator deity Atum...
- some nest
mounds built by the
dusky scrubfowl measure more than 11 m (36 ft) in
diameter and
stand nearly 5 m (16 ft) tall. The
study of
birds'
nests is...
-
College Mound-builder (
bird), or megapode,
birds in the
family Megapodiidae Mound-building termites, a
group of
termite species that live in
mounds Mound-building...
- Rock Hawk
Effigy Mound is an
archaeological site in
Putnam County, Georgia,
United States. It
consists of
thousands of
pieces of
quartzite laid in the...
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Serpent Mound Raven effigy pipe,
Mound City
Otter effigy pipe,
Mound City
Bird figure,
Tremper Mounds Copper spider(?) from a Ross
County mound Bird head...
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tumulus (pl.: tumuli) is a
mound of
earth and
stones raised over a
grave or graves.
Tumuli are also
known as barrows,
burial mounds,
howes or (in
Siberia and...
