Sentences with phrase «ancient creatures»

As a result, figuring out what ancient creatures looked like — and particularly what colors they might have been — was by necessity speculative.

As a result, figuring out what ancient creatures looked like — and particularly what colors they might have been — has been mostly speculative.

He works to understand ancient creatures and the diseases they carried.

The Law is what's out in the world... fossils of ancient creatures that don't exist anymore.

Hendrik, for his part, spent years plying through caves sampling preserved poop, probing permafrost and helping exhume mass graves, all to uncover well - preserved pockets of DNA that could shed light on how ancient creatures lived, died and evolved.

When George was a boy, his mother gave him a book graced by a picture of a weevil trapped in amber, and that single image sparked a lifelong fascination with insects and other ancient creatures trapped in the fossilized tree resin.

At its heart The Hallow is a fable about ancient creatures updated for the modern era.

Aquatic arthropods — today's crustaceans such as shrimp, crabs, and lobsters as well as ancient creatures such as trilobites and sea scorpions — have limbs with two branches, one of which bears weight and another that is typically adorned with gills.

At Brown, Turner is working in the lab of Professor Stephen Gatesy, where she is studying a continuum of postures and locomotion in ancient creatures.

It is extremely rear case that someone finds ancient creatures inside the Baltic amber and it would naturally lead to an extremely high price.

Your kids will see some of the oldest dinosaur bones in Canada and meet ancient creatures.

Using three - dimensional imaging and a burgeoning knowledge of ancient anatomies, scientists can now rebuild ancient creatures» vocal tracts and re-create their sounds.

Extinction, certainly of really ancient creatures, is forever, as the authors themselves make clear.

«Several years ago, people would have said we'd never be able to tell what colors ancient creatures were,» he notes.

Ancient creatures across the globe from bats to frogs faced a difficult decision: adapt to the hotter conditions or move, usually north or up mountains, to chase the receding cooler breezes.

«Ancient creature discovered in the depths of the Arctic Ocean.»

Coprolites are very important because they can provide direct evidence of what ancient creatures ate.

Summary: Vampires and Lycans come to a breaking point in this modernized tale of two ancient creatures battling for superiority.

This seems to be essentially a chase movie, with the chasers being various ancient creatures, including mammoths, a sabretooth tiger and some giant birds that we don't know the name for.

The animals in Mez's Magic know the two - legs only as legendary ancient creatures, implying that the book takes place in a time post-people.

And that's why a community of people dedicated to the protection and preservation of these magnificent ancient creatures has developed — a community that sprang into action when Kayak was found.

In addition there are beautiful birds such as hornbills, rarities like Bornean pygmy elephants, and ancient creatures including crocodiles and snakes.

The selfishness of humanity, the loneliness of your surroundings, and the sadness you felt at felling these often majestic ancient creatures are feelings I will never forget.

Ancient creatures from Japanese literature are coming to life in Hyakki Castle.

Of course, the great Victorian palaeontologists such as Richard Owen and Thomas Huxley were aware that dinosaurs and other ancient creatures were extinct, but they did not see any role for sudden, dramatic events.

Overall, comparing Vadasaurus's features with those of earlier and later pleurosaurs may provide scientists with insights about how evolution might have progressed among other, totally separate lineages of ancient creatures that also undertook the land - to - sea transition, including ichthyosaurs and mosasaurs, marine reptiles that swam the seas worldwide during large portions of the dinosaur era.

Manning suspects that skin and soft tissue may have been overlooked in other fossils and that they could yield startling new insights about ancient creatures.

Looking like a cross between a fish and a dolphin, ichthyosaurs thrived throughout the reign of the dinosaurs, and since their remains are regularly dug up across Europe and the UK, they're among the most well - understood ancient creatures.

Chimerarachne yingi, an extinct spiderlike animal found in amber, has a tail that stretches several times its body length, Susan Milius reported in «This ancient creature looks like a spider with a tail» (SN: 3/3/18, p. 32).

Scientists have unearthed the oldest known species of a long - extinct group known as sea scorpions, a find that could mean the ancient creatures may have an even older origin than previously thought.

Detailed comparisons of the collagen proteins trapped and preserved within the bone fragments to those produced by 37 living mammal species indicate that the ancient creature was most closely related to today's dromedary camel (the species with one hump), the researchers report online today in Nature Communications.

He cites the spineless hedgehog as the closest modern analog to this ancient creature.

The new analysis «is an elegant example of how to use the geochemistry of a fossil to infer the behavior and movement of an ancient creature,» says Henry Fricke, an isotope geochemist at Colorado College in Colorado Springs.

As a paleontologist at Yale, he has had dramatic success scouring dusty museum archives for relics of ancient creatures.

In the depths of the Arctic Ocean, buried deep in the sediment, an ancient creature waited for over a million years to be discovered.

That will help researchers better understand the vanished world in which these ancient creatures lived.

«Tracks sometimes tell more about ancient creatures than their bones, particularly when it comes to their behavior,» he said.

The ancient creatures were considered excellent souvenirs, compactly embodying the exotic rituals of an ancient society.

But the bones suggest the ancient creature must have moved by arching and relaxing its back.

In truth, I am also a bit of a Depp fan and so what better way to honour the man than to immortalise him as an ancient creature that once roamed the sea?»

Chromatophores produce the colors of all kinds of vertebrates other than reptiles, including fish and amphibians — so the new technique could open a door into seeing the full colors of a wide variety of ancient creatures.

Because the fecal matter of dinosaurs and other ancient creatures has been found in the fossil record, ambergris should have been preserved, too, says Angela Baldanza, a sedimentary geologist at the University of Perugia in Italy.

«Mysterious» ancient creature was definitely an animal, research confirms.»

Its simple brain gives researchers an idea of what the ancient creature was like.

A fresh theory on the origin of dinosaurs shakes up a central fact regarding the ancient creatures that has stood for 130 years.

Yet these ancient creatures live, breathe and rampage across the screen in movies like Jurassic Park and TV series like BBC's Primeval.

A team of researchers has estimated that the jaws of the Beelzebufo ampinga were strong enough to allow the ancient creature to eat small dinosaurs and crocodiles.

There are many efforts to identify dinosaurs excavated from sites in many parts of the world but being able to identify new species and seeing full - sized reconstructions of the ancient creatures are always exciting to experience.

Fossil fragments helped researchers determine where the ancient creature originated, lived and evolved into a land dweller.