Dinosaur fossils had been known for centuries as "dragon bones" or the remains of giants, but it wasn't until Dean William Buckland of Oxford, England described the carnivorous "lizard" Megalosaurus<span> (in 1824) that they were formally studied as an extinct group of giant reptiles</span>
Appalachian Mountains are a part of the Lithosphere
Since the country has a smaller area and a large amount of people (although smaller than Australia) the ratio of land to people in New Zealand is much larger than the ration of land to people in Australia.
Stratification in the field of ecology refers to the vertical layering of a habitat; the arrangement of vegetation in layers. ... strata) of vegetation largely according to the different heights to which their plants grow. The individual layers are inhabited by different animal and plant communities (stratozones).
