Sentences with phrase «ancient creatures looked»

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

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

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).

Not exact matches

John Gay in his Beggar's Opera notes that «A covetous fellow, like a jackdaw, steals what he was never made to enjoy, for the sake of hiding it» Ancient Greek authors tell how a jackdaw, being a social creature, may be caught with a dish of oil which it falls into while looking at its own reflection.

So what were ancient people looking for when striking up friendships with the feathered animals — or any other creatures?

What did ancient sea creatures really look like?

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.

During this time, there was a lot of «evolutionary experimentation», with many ancient communities dominated by alien - looking creatures unlike any of their modern counterparts.

If it is not there, fast travel to the Ancient Forest to look for the third creature and come back.

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.

Looking down at the serpent's wet body, glistening from the ancient sunlight, long before man was a creature who could contemplate the next moment in time.

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.

The premise and the story are rather simple; you befriend this unholy creature and you look for a means of escape from this mysterious looking ancient place.

In the polished wood bar to the left of the atrium is a large aquarium courtesy of Pierre Huyghe (Cambrian Explosion 14, 2016), home to assorted ancient - looking sea creatures that scuttle beneath a massive lava stone hovering mysteriously in the water.

When I entered the exhibition, her artwork again caught me off - guard, but this time with an ancient - looking creature.

Dr. Peter Warshall (great ecologist, birder, desert denizen, Bio-neer, Northern Jaguar Alliance, author working on a book about color and vision in nature, etc) was telling me (and I wish I had taken proper notes and references) that he had read an article in a technical biology journal of some sort showing that the DNA of a ancient bacterium had been absorbed into the DNA of the host creature, and that on further looking we may find that creatures are constantly acquiring whole sections of DNA by some unknown process.