Sentences with phrase «ancient creatures lived»

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

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.

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

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But even allowing for all this, we are still, like our ancient forbears, finite creatures who recognize our fundamental affinity with the earth on which we live.

Why should a tale of a man living in the digestive tract of an aquatic creature for three days and exiting unscathed be thought of as more valid than the story of a man who translated ancient writing with magic seer stones?

This ancient church - ogre accuses Jesus of having required men to live by the strength of their strong wills, cruelly ignoring the fact that they are impotent creatures who can live only for the sake of a swinish happiness.

For a century and a half, the 150 - million - year - old feathered creature called Archaeopteryx has reigned as the earliest known bird and as a symbol of the link between ancient dinosaurs and living fowl.

The creatures that met their sticky ends in this fossilised tree resin can provide valuable clues about ancient life.

While many would be repulsed by these creatures, lamprey are exciting to biologists because they are so primitive, retaining many characteristics similar to their ancient ancestors and thus offering answers to some of life's biggest evolutionary questions.

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

Disguised as cars, machinery and every other mechanical device imaginable, these alien creatures have been living on our planet since ancient times.

When the three Grace children — troubled Jared; his bookish twin, Simon; and their sister, Mallory, a fencing jock — move to the ancient Spiderwick mansion, they are at first none - too - enchanted by the rundown Victorian... until they discover a Brownie, an enchanted creature, living in the walls.

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.

Elsewhere in the pyramid Komatsu discovers an ancient cook book and comes under attack from a mummified creature that visually looks like their robotic rivals, but is definitely a living thing.

Cruise the Galápagos for four nights aboard the Xavier III, snorkel with sea lions and discover spectacular marine life in protected bays, Visit a tortoise ranch to see these ancient creatures, Soa...

In ancient Sardinian folklore «janas» were pretty, fairy - like creatures who lived in caves carved into the island's rock (known as «domus de janas»).

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

With a host of strange companions — whose motives and goals may help or harm you — you must escape an ancient, unstoppable creature called the Sorrow and answer the question that defines your existence: What does one life matter?

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.

For his MATRIX project, Dion combines the museum's collection with his practice of investigating the intersection of art and the history of science, developing a hierarchical chain of living creatures to create a Wadsworth - specific version of «The Great Chain of Being» (based on Aristotle's ancient model) through details of paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts found in the museum's collection.