Sentences with phrase «many giant mammals»

Many giant mammals in the Americas have died out but it has been hard to say whether humans or natural events were responsible.

These giant mammals included the woolly rhinoceros, mammoths, llamas, camels and giant ground sloths as well as ferocious predators such as the short - faced bear, and the scimitar and saber - toothed cats.

Woolly mammoths disappeared from Siberia and North America about 10,000 years ago, along with other giant mammals that went extinct at the end of the last glacial period.

So, the same time that he is collecting the famous fossils, the giant mammal fossils, the megafauna, which is another thing that Darwin is famous for.

Guests can often see these giant mammals spouting and breaching just offshore and from their guestroom lanai.

And rightly so, for the waters surrounding Baja California abound with an amazing variety of these giant mammals.

«Whale curry» made its debut as a takeaway business in Tokyo, attracting curious customers who seldom have the meat amid an international row over hunting the giant mammals.]

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It includes the Stromatolites from the Precambrian (colonies of prokaryotic bacteria), the Ediacara fossils from South Australia, the Cambrian species of the Burgess shale (circa — 450 million years) the giant insects of the Devonian period, the many precursors to the dinosaurs, the dinosaurs themselves, the subsequent dominant mammals, including the Saber Tooth Tiger, the Mammoths, the fossils of early man in Africa, the Neanderthals of Europe.

The fossil record includes the Stromatolites, colonies of prokaryotic bacteria, that range in age going back to about 3 billion years, the Ediacara fossils from South Australia, widely regarded as among the earliest multi-celled organisms, the Cambrian species of the Burgess shale in Canada (circa — 450 million years ago) the giant scorpions of the Silurian Period, the giant, wingless insects of the Devonian period, the insects, amphibians, reptiles, fishes, clams, crustaceans of the Carboniferous Period, the many precursors to the dinosaurs, the 700 odd known species of dinosaurs themselves, the subsequent dominant mammals, including the saber tooth tiger, the mammoths and hairy rhinoceros of North America and Asia, the fossils of early man in Africa and the Neanderthals of Europe.

To that end, new evidence supports a theory that some experts once considered unlikely: namely, that the forerunners of Madagascar's modern mammals reached the island millions of years ago by drifting from the African mainland across the Mozambique Channel on giant rafts of vegetation ripped from the shore and launched out to sea by violent storms.

For example, the giant panda — another mostly herbivorous mammal — eats bamboo shoots on different parts of the bamboo at different times of year.

Ursidae, excluding the giant panda, are also the only mammals with significant amounts of ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA), which is produced in the liver and stored in the gallbladder.

Within the 31 squares, researchers analysed the presence of 35 key species of mammals and birds for which these regions are natural habitats, such as pumas, giant anteaters and red howler monkeys.

A scientist turns up new clues to the disappearance of North America's giant beavers, saber - toothed cats and other large mammals

Palaeontologists have long argued about how and why the giant ice age mammals became extinct, and in particular about the role of human hunters in the extinction.

The site contains abundant fossils, diverse assemblages of Triassic animals including relatives of crocodylians, giant - headed amphibians and ancient relatives of modern mammals called cynodonts.

In addition to Monty Python's immortal song, others include «Mammals» by the band They Might Be Giants, John Boswell's album «Science Is the Poetry of Reality» and many songs by Tom Lehrer.

However, researchers think it may have been a very palatable treat for extinct mammals like mammoths, mastodons, or the giant ground sloths that tromped across North America until around 13,000 years ago.

The giant wave had caught only a very small number of large mammals, like wild boars, and not a single elephant or leopard was found dead.

Dozens of species disappeared altogether, including 17 giant lemurs, three pygmy hippopotamuses, two aardvarklike mammals, a giant fossa (a catlike carnivore), eight elephant birds, a giant crocodile and two giant tortoises.

In North America, the Ice Age was marked by the mass extinction of several dozen genera of large mammals, including mammoths, mastodons, American horses, Western camels, two types of deer, ancient bison, giant beaver, giant bears, sabre - toothed cats, giant bears, American cheetahs, and many other animals, as well as plants.

«How the mouse outlived «the giant»: Groundbreaking research sheds light on ancestry of mammals and origin of hair.»

Thus, «giant chunks of space debris clobbering the planet and wiping out life on Earth has undeniably broad appeal,» Meltzer says, whereas «no one in Hollywood makes movies» about more nuanced explanations, such as Clovis points disappearing because early Americans turned to other forms of stone tool technology as the large mammals they were hunting went extinct as a result of the changing climate or hunting pressure.

So researchers tested that idea using colugos — mammals from Southeast Asia that turn into giant skin sails when they stretch out their legs.

A new review by an international team of scientists, including Stony Brook University Professor Liliana M. Dávalos, reports an analysis of the incredibly diverse «lost world» of Caribbean fossils that includes giant rodents, vampire bats, enigmatic monkeys, ground sloths, shrews and dozens of other ancient mammals.

About two dozen national parks are planned, and the first four mentioned by state media aim to protect charismatic mammals: Asian elephants, giant pandas, Tibetan antelopes, and, here in the northeast, tigers and leopards.

Weta, giant flightless grasshoppers native to New Zealand, ingest and disperse seeds --- an ecological role played by small mammals in other parts of the world.

«The AIS can become a vital tool in helping to protect whale and other marine mammal species, particularly in locations such as the Arctic where shipping is potentially on the increase,» said Dr. Howard Rosenbaum, Director of WCS's Ocean Giants Program.

Howard Rosenbaum, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Ocean Giants Program, told Live Science that, for many marine mammal species, a thick layer of fat called blubber is «first and foremost» in their list of defenses against the cold.

Others, such as the marsupial mammals and giant flightless birds, were uniquely Australian.

Within 2000 years of the Aborigines» arrival, most mammals weighing more than 50 kilograms were gone, including Diprotodon (a giant, browsing relative of the wombat); Protemnodon (a giant wallaby), and Sthenurus (a short - faced kangaroo).

Because of that, it also harbors some of the last great migratory spectacles of large mammals — over a million Mongolian gazelle as well as saiga antelope, Tibetan gazelle, Tibetan antelope, and giant argali sheep — a total of 15 large mammals under consideration in this Initiative.»

Chinese conservation measures to protect the charismatic giant panda in the wild have also benefitted other threatened species, including birds, mammals and amphibians, according to new Duke University - led study.

Chinese conservation measures to protect the charismatic giant panda have also benefited other threatened species, including birds, mammals and amphibians.

Skulking between these giant theories — almost, we are tempted to say, like a proto - mammal evading the saurian giants — is another, put forward somewhat shyly by the makers of the 3D Imax dinosaur movie imaginatively entitled Dinosaurs 3D.

BUILDING a network of cool retreats in the forest may create a safe haven for China's vulnerable giant pandas, as climate change threatens the mammal with extinction.

We found that the giant panda's geographical range overlaps with 70 percent of forest bird species, 70 percent of forest mammals, and 31 percent of forest amphibian species found only in mainland China.»

Giant Ground Sloth from the UnMuseum Giant Ground Sloth from the Illinois State Museum Ice Age Mammals

Despite its origin - story namesake, the new platypus is a cousin of the lineage of relatively small platypuses that led to the duck - mammal mash - up of today — probably one of several in a now - extinct side branch of giant platypuses.

Wright and her colleagues from Finland and Australia first showed that the greater bamboo lemurs are equipped with highly complex and specialized teeth, just like giant pandas — the only other mammal capable of feeding on culm.

The tunnel turned up a variety of ice age mammal bones — including the giant leg bone of a mammoth.

Cruise the «White Continent» while viewing the greatest concentration of sea mammals in the world, giant icebergs, and endless glaciers.

Gray whales have the longest migration route of any mammal and some of these giants swim as much as 20,000 kilometers (12,000 miles) round - trip from their summer stay in BC and Alaskan waters to the warmer waters off the Mexican coast.

2) It's intimidating to stand beside the world's largest land mammals but they truly are gentle giants.

Whale Watching Muir Beach Overlook is one of the many spots along the parks» coast for whale lovers to catch a glimpse of these giant marine mammals as they swim by during their winter migrations.

We see images of men, women, birds, beasts and perhaps most surprising of all, sea mammals such as a giant whale or sea lion.

A short intense trip to Manu staying 3 nights at the comfortable Manu Wildlife Centre This trip has several major wildlife attractions — the Blanquillo Macaw and Parrot lick, a Tapir lick where in the comfort of mattresses and mosquito nets you may watch the largest of all South American Land Mammals visit, plus Oxbow Lakes with floating Catamarans for observing Giant Otters and other lake - side wildlife and two walk - up canopy towers to get you into the rainforest canopy.

Here take part in a bottle feeding and watch these gentle giants indulge in their two hour bath in the local river whilst you have your lunch al fresco next to these majestic mammals.

From Cusco, you can also combine the Cloud Forest with tours to the lowland Manu rainforest to see Giant Amazon Otters, several different monkeys, colorful macaws and a good chance of seeing jaguar and tapir, South America's largest land mammal.

Your best chance to see one of these giant aquatic mammals is aboard the luxury cruising cat Ocean Freedom on a tour to the outer edges of the Upolu Reef, located off the coast of Cairns.