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Geothermal energy currently provides more than 2,700 megawatts of electricity nationwide - the equivalent of three nuclear power plants, or enough to power more than 3.5 million homes.
A geothermal power plant emits no nitrogen oxides, very few sulfur dioxides and 1,000 to 2,000 times less carbon dioxide than a fossil fuel plant.
Prehistoric penguins could be huge. Kumimanu fordycei, a fossil penguin from New Zealand, may have weighed over 300 pounds, more than three times as heavy as an emperor penguin.
Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona is known for its fossilized wood.
The Peking Man fossils, found near Beijing at Zhoukoudian, disappeared in 1941 and have never been found.
Archelon was a prehistoric sea turtle that grew to about 15 feet long.
Fossil evidence shows that roses existed about 35 million years ago, long before humans.
The Painted Hills are part of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.
Fossils at the John Day Fossil Beds span tens of millions of years.
Thomas Condon studied fossils in the John Day region in the 1860s.
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument has three units: Painted Hills, Sheep Rock, and Clarno.