Sentences with phrase «ancient animal life»

© Drawing by Joseph Smit, from «Extinct Monsters; a Popular Account of Some of the Larger Forms of Ancient Animal Life»

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As a Christian, I absolutely believe God began the human race in the Garden of Eden... as a discerning intelligent human being, I can not deny the facts found in carbon dating studies of ancient fossil remains... if God can creat man, he can also allow for investigation and confirmation of planet plant and animal life, the upheaval of mountains, and history of the sea.

And with the cup, so clear a symbol of his blood in that red wine, he saw, as we did, that his life, poured forth, would seal a new commitment, would form upon the altar of God's grace a whole new covenant that would replace the ancient, worn - out slaughter of the animals with one complete and final act, the sacrifice of God's own son to show the world, to show us all the height and depth and majesty, the eternal glory of God's love, which gives itself forever, or until we come, at last, and offer up our own lives in return.

It has been argued that not all animals were defined as having «nephesh» / life in ancient hebrew tradition.

This ancient theory, recounted by Pliny the Elder, is one of the many bizarre early attempts to explain one of life's greatest mysteries — how a nearly uniform egg cell develops into an animal with dozens of types of cells, each in its proper place.

In some ancient eras, according to other recent work on ocean chemistry, marine animals lived in «worlds of lower oxygen,» Lyons says.

And a very ancient origin of symmetry makes sense: Because all but the most primitive animals are bilateral at some stage in their life, Bottjer says, «this basic feature must have been an early evolutionary innovation.»

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«This particular sponge species, which is among the most ancient animals inhabiting the earth today, is home to a very diverse, very crowded number of microorganisms,» said Prof. Micha Ilan of the Department of Zoology at TAU's Faculty of Life Sciences, who led the study.

According to Strausfeld, confirmation of this shared ground pattern in the vertebrate hippocampus would suggest that it originated from a very ancient common ancestor likely to have lived about 600 million years ago just before the Cambrian explosion, a relatively short period when most major animal phyla emerged.

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Nevertheless, Wogelius says that he and his co-workers are now approaching numerous museums and other institutions in an attempt to expand their fossil database and also compare the pigment patterns of ancient specimens with those of living animals in hopes of eventually deciphering the ancient colors.

«Oxygen isotopes in ancient bones and teeth reflect the water animals are living in or drinking,» said Kim, a former postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wyoming.

Although the bacteria shared common features (most live inside animals and many cause disease), the pattern of species carrying and lacking the gene suggested that the gene had been shuffled horizontally in the family tree, between distantly related species, not passed down from an ancient ancestor.

Since fossils in general, and dinosaur fossils in particular, are rare and very different from modern animals, it's lucky that humans came wired to spot the unusual, and collect the oddities that resembled ancient life forms long before there was a subject called palaeontology.

These oil shales formed at the bottom of ancient Lake Messel and preserve the remains of mammals, birds, and other animals that were living near what is now Darmstadt, Germany about 47 million years ago (the Eocene epoch).

MEACHEM: We would really love to discover some more mammal fossils down there and what we're really hoping to get out of these mammal fossils is some good ancient DNA, that will tell us about the conditions that these animals lived in and how DNA or genes changed with climate.

Seems odd to think of ancient tropical plants and animals living where nothing can survive today.

It is a member of the archaea family, an ancient branch of life distinct from plants, animals, and bacteria.

Methanosarcina acetivorans belongs to the family of archaea, an ancient branch of life that is distinct from plants, animals, and bacteria.

Archaea is an ancient domain of life that is separate from bacteria, plants, and animals.

These final descendants of an ancient race, that still resembles animals and has been reduced to slavery, lived with their master in shared caves.

However, the recent study compared CT scans of modern and fossil reptiles and found that the slithering animals lost their limbs when their ancient ancestors began living and hunting in burrows instead.

They are members of the archaea family, an ancient branch of life distinct from plants, animals, and bacteria.

In support of this concept, we have shown that mtDNA mutations accumulate in proportion to life span in several animals, that increasing mitochondrial anti-oxidant defense systems extends lifespan, that ancient human mtDNA variants that modify energy production and oxygen radical production can modulate longevity and risk for neurodegenerative diseases, and that patients with the neurodegenerative disease, Alzheimer Disease, have increased mtDNA mutations.

People and animals can live in harmony if we behave with kindness and mercy while showing reverence for the ancients of other species, like the elephants that Bagheera credits with creating the rain forest and directing the flow of water by digging canals with their hooves and tusks.

Instead of revering the «bow in the cloud» of Genesis, that ancient sign of His promise never again to destroy Earth's living creatures, the cultists said to look to the white comet, to a new covenant in which animals didn't fit, and on one continent after another, they found ways to tip already endangered whole ecosystems toward their bowls of ashes.

Through animal communication, animal Reiki and the ancient art of map dowsing we have been able to help pet families reunite by solving behavior issues, help pets resolve other circumstances in their lives and comfort pet pet parents under one of the most stressful times of their lives.

Using Feng Shui principles to allow any of us or our companion animals to live a more harmonious and natural existence is inherent in this ancient health system.

We've all heard stories about the distances some pets have travelled to be reunited with their beloved masters, but there are also some ancient tales where animals have done the extraordinary to stay with their owners, even beyond life itself.

That's right down there in animal welfare with ancient Egyptian royalty burying their live pets with them.

He is the editor ofVeterinary Acupuncture: Ancient Art to Modern Medicine, (Mosby, 1994, 2001), co-editor of Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine (Mosby, 1998), author of the award winning book, Kindred Spirits, How the Remarkable Relationship between Humans and Animals Can Transform our Lives (Broadway - Doubleday, 2001) and author ofLove, Miracles & Animal Healing, (Simon & Schuster, 1995).

The limestone caves, once a marshy wetland supporting a huge diversity of plant life and animals, have expelled an impressive quantity of ancient mammal remains and fossil evidence of an early human - like primate ancestor.

Birdlife and indigenous animals can all be seen here, and the plant life is ancient and little changed over many millennia.

A walk carries you into the heart of a bio-diverse forest reserve that harbors rare plants, ancient trees and a wealth of animal life.

Its awe - inspiring landscapes and contrasting regions, encompassing two Wonders of the Ancient World, 11 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, 352 Blue Flag beaches and 19 Blue Flag Marinas, a diverse plant and animal life and 20 world - class golf courses, to name just a few, mean Turkey can offer many options for an unforgettable holiday experience.

A true paradise for anyone who loves the outdoors, Belize gives visitors a chance to swim with marine life on the reefs, hike through national parks and reserves to see animals like jaguars and pumas, and climb to the top of ancient Maya city states that once dominated this region for more than 2,000 years.

The next day is spent at the Living Museum of the Ju / «Hoansi - San, a fascinating tribute to Namibia's oldest inhabitants - the Bushmen - and your chance to learn about their ancient culture as well as how to make fire, track animals and forage for food in a deceptively fertile landscape.

Technology is an ancient and forbidden thing, yet we live side by side with machines that act and look like the animals of the Earth before everything went to hell.

Explore how observation of animal behavior influenced religious belief, artistic production, and daily life from ancient America to contemporary Africa in this three - day workshop for teachers on June 5 - 7.

While we already live in the realms of what used to be science fiction, we seem to have simultaneously gone back to our ancestral past — a time when ancient civilisations believed spirits inhabited plants, animals, geographic features and even objects.

Her sources of inspiration for the exhibition Families, Fables and Myths include ancient tales exposing human nature, the secret lives of animals, creatures, and characters in myths.

Although it's been many thousands - if not millions — of years since ancient civilizations and some extinct animal species flourished, their legacies continue to fascinate and live on through the creative vision of artist James Gurney.

In 1992, a team from the University of New Mexico reported that ancient soils showed extremely high levels of carbon dioxide 440 million years ago, an age of primitive sea life before the advent of land plants and animals.