Sentences with phrase «alive today»

Although countershading is common, the findings come as surprise because Borealopelta's size far exceeds that of countershaded animals alive today.

The animals that appeared during the Cambrian explosion gave rise to all the major groups alive today, from worms to starfish.

What's more, stomata have been found in fossils dating back 400 million years, and are features of nearly every land plant alive today, although they can take on different appearances in different kinds of plants.

Many of us alive today will be a part of it.

Every one of the over 250 New Zealand black robins that are alive today descends from a single female, nicknamed «Old Blue» after the colour of the tag she was given by ornithologists (see The robin's return).

If this theory holds up to subsequent research, Stephen Gould's notion that these early Cambrian «weirdos» were revolutionary taxonomic one - offs will become less plausible, as more of the critical species are received back into the fold of taxa still alive today.

Austad had been quoted as saying that someone alive today could survive to the unprecedented age of 150.

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.

DDT breaks down slowly, so most people alive today have traces in their bodies, and it remains in the environment and the food web.

The small population that gave rise to all humans alive today may have survived by exploiting a unique combination of resources along the southern coast of Africa

«There isn't a human alive today that can ever win a game anymore against the full program,» Schaeffer says — although he does leave open the possibility that a person could eke out a draw in the unlikely event that she played a perfect game.

Steve: What we are talking about is, are their individuals alive today who carry Neandertal genes — did that lineage survive?

It goes back 415 to 420 million years and preserves the ancestral forms of a lot of the insects that are alive today,» he said.

If he were alive today, he might be tempted to write a further sequel satirising quantum mechanics and some of the new mathematics and physics of the 20th century.

The plesiosaur, a marine reptile that lived 160 million years ago, looked like nothing alive today, with a neck that was some 2 metres long, the length of the body and tail combined.

In 50 years, summers across most of the globe could regularly be hotter than any summer experienced so far by people alive today, according to a study by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

But none of the sloths alive today, nor any of the others known from 35 million years of sloth history, could do what McDonald says this sloth did: it swam in the ocean.

That means if Lucy were alive today, she could fit in high heels or march for miles without breaking her feet.

Scientists have engineered tobacco plants to thrive in heat that would wilt the hardiest strains alive today.

If he were alive today, Bruno might be surprised at the opinions being expressed in pontifical universities, all without threat of recourse.

Six researchers developed the Higgs mechanism in 1964; five are still alive today and thus eligible for Nobel's honor.

The study, published today in Nature Ecology & Evolution, analysed data of 2415 species of mammals alive today using computer algorithms to reconstruct the likely activity patterns of their ancient ancestors who lived millions of years ago.

«If Newton were alive today and he saw the evidence astronomers are seeing, he would simply modify the law of gravity,» says Bertolami.

Were Galileo alive today and using his original equipment, he would not be able to discern the rings of Saturn — unless, that is, he was working in one of the few places on Earth that have remained dark enough.

Brown is the only person alive today who has been cured of HIV.

The 270 000 Icelanders alive today are almost all descended from a small group of Norwegian pioneers who colonised the island in the 9th century.

Although modern humans are the only human species alive today, other human species once walked the Earth.

Clues to Urbilateria's brain plan come from studying the embryonic development of creatures alive today.

While many of the specimens collected were definitely fossils, the scientists can't discount the new animal might still be alive today.

The extinct early mammal had some other unusual features, including more vertebrae than any terrestrial mammal alive today.

I suspect Tolstoy would have been tweeting himself senseless were he alive today.

Every bird alive today can trace its ancestry to creatures that lived about 95 million years ago on a chunk of land that split off from the supercontinent Gondwana, a new study suggests.

All eukaryotes alive today descended from a common ancestor, but what if other lineages came about only to go extinct?

Dr Fernando Montealegre - Z, a Leverhulme grant holder and leading entomologist from the University of Lincoln's School of Life Sciences, explained: «There are less than 10 species of grigs alive today, nearly 100 species extinct, so our research into these rare animals is very significant as it tells us a great deal about how orthopterans have evolved.

It was 10 times the size of the largest rodent alive today.

All whooping cranes alive today are the descendants * of only 16 cranes alive in the 1930s, says Tian Everest, conservation research program coordinator at the zoo.

All the muscles of our faces develop from a strip of cells at the base of the embryonic head, just as they do in lampreys, which belong to one of the oldest lineages of vertebrates alive today.

Every dog alive today is descended from ancient Asian roots.

The skull, which is among the oldest fossils ever found from that group, called Platanistoidea, confirms that Platanista belongs to one of the oldest lineages of toothed whales still alive today.

Genetic studies suggest that liverworts — humble, stumpy plants related to mosses, which now commonly grow on damp soils — are the most ancient group of plants alive today.

All organisms alive today keep their DNA, RNA, and proteins together inside cell membranes.

As it is, the world produces enough food to feed everyone alive today — and more.

Simply put, without fossil fuels, the New Jerseyans alive today could not survive on the bounty of the Garden State alone.

While prostate cancer is a major disease in the U.S., it is not a death sentence, according to the American Cancer Society, which estimates there are nearly 3 million prostate cancer survivors alive today.

If members of Archicebus achilles were alive today, they would fit in the palm of your hand.

For better and worse, this aspect of Einstein's approach to physics is very much alive today: «Pure mathematical construction» is an industry that employs hundreds of workers.

The study also included genetic data from eight extant species, including the three largest lemur species still alive today.

Comparing protein sequences could help trace relationships with other prehistoric beasts and with animals alive today.

Fossilisation does not preserve a dinosaur's muscles, but educated guesses about how they worked can be made by studying animals alive today, such as ostriches.

Visiting other planets is a dream that most of us alive today will have to experience vicariously through probes like the plucky NASA Mars rovers, which have sent a thousand photo albums» worth of snapshots back to Earth.