Sentences with phrase «about a meter long»

This tubby fish, about a meter long, swims by flapping its pectoral fins.

Based on a comparison of the size of the molar to the teeth of other extinct platypuses, the team reports today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology that O. tharalkooschild was probably about a meter long — bigger than any other platypus and twice the size of the species alive today.

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If not you will have your nipples pointing in various directions (because once you begin breastfeeding your nipples become about one meter longer than BKs!

Something I really liked about this particular brand of wrap is how long it is (5.5 meters).

Dubbed Isthminia panamensis — a blend of the genus name of today's Amazon river dolphin and the location where the new species was found — the dolphin (artist's reconstruction above) was about 2.85 meters (9.4 feet) long and is thus slightly smaller than its modern - day namesake, the researchers report online today in PeerJ.

But our moon's rotational bulge — an equatorial diameter that would be, on average, about 200 meters longer than its diameter through the poles if the moon weren't so cratered with huge basins — is about 20 times larger than expected, based on its current once - per - month rate of rotation.

SUPERDUCK Estimates based on its skull (left) and skeleton put P. bergei at about 9 meters long.

An area with more than 20 meters of horizontal displacement, that is, four times larger than those detected on land, stretches several tens of kilometers long along the trench; the largest amount reaches about 24 meters toward east - southeast just above the hypocenter.

Not a sprint on a super-smooth track such as the one used for the track cycling competition, but a mad dash across a course that is about 1,148 feet (350 meters) long and 32 feet (10 meters) wide, with three - hairpin turns and four jump - filled straight - aways.

Their longest run lasted almost four hours, during which they produced about 10 meters of continuous graphene.

Just under 40 feet (12 meters) long and about 31.5 inches (80 centimeters) in diameter each, the 250 segments of one of KAGRA's arms extend into the distance in this westward tunnel.

The largest of the Yutyrannus skeletons — found in China's Liaoning province in rocks of an era famed for its feathered dinosaurs — represents an adult that in life would have measured about 9 meters long, or slightly shorter than a school bus.

Several skulls of the newly identified species, Daspletosaurus horneri, which lived about 75 million years ago and grew about 9 meters long, have been dug up in northern Montana since the early 1990s.

The largest of the four sites, in western Colorado, features some 60 scrapes on a sandstone surface measuring about 50 meters long and 15 meters wide.

Likely measuring between 1.2 - and 1.5 - meters long, the dolphin was about the same size as today's vaquita, the world's smallest and most endangered cetacean, and it likely foraged in shallow, near - shore waters.

And just where all the fuel and other radioactive solid debris on the site will be stored or disposed of long - term has yet to be decided; last month the site's ninth solid waste storage building, with a capacity of about 61,000 cubic meters, went into operation.

Each robot probe, a tube a little more than meter long, dives to about 1,000 meters, then drifts locally for nine days.

So they took a collection of healthy people into long corridors and out onto sidewalks and gave them set amounts of time to travel about 250 meters.

Cosmic rays can only penetrate about two to three meters below the surface, so the abundance of cosmic - ray - debris isotopes in rock indicates how long that rock has been on the surface.

Standing less than waist high, these lithe, bipedal creatures measured as much as 1.5 meters long from the tip of their snout to the tip of their tail and weighed about 23.5 kilograms (about as much as a medium - sized dog), says Xing Xu, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

At about 2 meters long, it was larger than other close relatives, walked on four feet instead of two, and had an unusually long neck and tail...

Researchers pieced together fragile fossil fragments of Kryptodrakon's spindly skeleton, which once belonged to an adult with a wingspan of 1.47 meters, about as long as a bicycle, Brian Andres of the University of South Florida in Tampa and colleagues report

The deposit there is about 1,500 meters long by 100 meters wide (about a mile long and 300 feet wide), but Nautilus can not say how deep it is — except that in many places it is deeper than the 20 - meter (about 65 - foot) exploratory holes that the company has drilled into it.

The dino was about 1.65 meters long, a little longer than a modern condor, but at an estimated 20 kilograms, it was probably nearly twice as heavy as that bird.

In addition, a U.K. scientific team is proposing to put a penetrator (pdf), about half a meter long and carrying a small scientific payload, on board either the NASA or ESA orbiter, to be detached and sent crashing into the surface of Europa or Ganymede.

Extrapolating the new results just a bit further, they find osmosis should reverse itself at a depth of 8200 meters — right about where fish no longer swim the sea.

The movies show that lightsabers are glowing blades about 4 feet (1.2 meters) long.

The new species, which the team dubbed Inkayacu paracasensis or «the water king,» is one of the largest extinct penguins known (the largest living penguin, the Emperor, is about 1.2 meters long).

Again, the effects are minuscule: It would take the elevated clock hundreds of millions of years to log one more second than its counterpart, and a clock moving a few meters per second would need to run about as long to lag one second behind its stationary counterpart.

With the sleek silhouette of a torpedo and measuring about 6 meters long, minkes are the smallest of the baleen whales.

In contrast, Lamellibrachia lives at cold seeps — fissures on the 2 - degree - Celsius sea floor that emit methane and other gases for centuries or longer — and inches up about a meter every 100 years, topping out at 3 to 4 meters.

It didn't take long before her team unearthed a nearly complete skeleton — with feathers — of a 36 - million - year - old penguin whose swimming length measures about 1.5 meters.

But by the time of T. rex's heyday, about 68 million years ago, the ferocious beast was up to 12 meters long, as long as a truck trailer.

But the first tyrannosaurs in the fossil record after this gap, dated to about 80 million years, were already very large, up to 9 meters long.

This latest specimen, found in 125 - million - year - old sediments in northeastern China, was about 1.2 meters long and is related to a noted group of flying dinosaurs called Microraptor, which has provided important insights into the evolution of powered flight.

In Antarctica's cold, where fish have natural antifreeze in their blood, McClintock accompanied other researchers as they angled for giant Antarctic toothfish by dropping a 450 - meter - long line through a meter - wide hole drilled in the sea ice about five kilometers offshore.

Based on the sizes of isolated fragments, though, some of the creatures probably were about 2 meters long.

Other tests indicate that the long - lost peak — now dubbed Kaena volcano — grew from the sea floor and broke through the ocean's surface about 3.5 million years ago, eventually reaching a height of about 1000 meters above sea level before it began sinking back into the sea.

The size and shape of the upper jaw fragment suggests that the creature was about 4 meters long, with some other species in the Helicoprion genus measuring almost twice that length.

Materials • Two «two - by - four» or similar size wood planks, about one half meter long works best • Small plastic tub with lid • Sand or another dense material to fill the tub • Water • Freezer • Books • Ruler • Protractor • A carpeted area or a rug that can get damp (or a protective covering, such as a large plastic trash bag) Preparation • Make sure that the pieces of wood have surfaces that are similar in roughness and are about the same length and width.

Once, filling in for a missing lecturer, she was introduced as «the woman who has just written a book about a six - meter - long, death - dealing penis,» a reference to The Black - man of Zinacantan, her book about a Mayan legend.

The larger ring is about 6.7 meters long and 4.5 meters wide.

The young eagle recruits have wingspans that currently measure about 3.3 feet (1 meter) long.

The biggest pyramids they discovered are about 22 feet (7 meters) wide at their base with the smallest example, likely constructed for the burial of a child, being only 30 inches (750 millimeters) long.

Six - meter - long (about 20 feet) Moby recorded one of the deepest known dives for whale sharks (1,856 meters, or 6,089 feet!)

The tiny proteins — approximately a billionth of a meter long — are common drug targets, despite limited available information about their structure.

This technology can zoom in on objects as small as a few nanometers big (a few billionths of a meter wide) and can catch a moment in time to reveal what happens over about 15 nanoseconds (15 billionths of a second long).

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

The long - necked and herbivorous Dreadnoughtus schrani, whose name means «fears nothing,» measured 85 feet (26 meters) in length from the tip of its small head to the end of its tail and weighed 65 tons — about seven times heavier than Tyrannosaurus rex, said Drexel University paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara, who led the excavation.

From our distant exploration of «Oumuamua we know it's a red - brown, cigar - shaped object, about 400 meters (1,300 feet) long, and is moving so fast that it must have started its journey in some distant stellar system.