Sentences with phrase «ancient environments»

Moreover, behavior that may seem like a drawback today may not have been so in ancient environments.

For example, the mission team revised the planned route to future destinations on the lower slope of an area called Mount Sharp, where scientists expect geological layering will yield answers about ancient environments.

Working with some of the colleagues he'd met on the textbook project, his next step was to apply this information to the creation of a whole new field: the study of ancient environments on planets, such as Mars, that resemble Earth.

It will mean deciphering what oxygen levels were in different ancient environments, and connecting those values with the kinds of traits exhibited by the animal fossils found in the same locations.

Clive Oppenheimer, a volcanologist at the University of Cambridge, U.K., whose work involves looking at how eruptions shape ancient environments, commented on the study.

Consider riding elephants in Thailand, surfing the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, explore the rich history of Athens, go shopping in modern and ancient environments around the world, or explore a place where old meets new by visiting Abu Dhabi.

For historically, purveyors of calumnies did not survive in ancient environments.

«It can help us correlate the changes in life forms with what we know about the Earth's ancient environments.

Before Curiosity landed, scientists anticipated that the rover would need to reach Mount Sharp to meet the goal of determining whether the ancient environment was favorable for life.

According to the researchers, the proposed technique could be possible to perform with instrumentation already planned for the NASA 2020 rover mission to explore areas of Mars where the ancient environment could have fostered microbial life.

JRM: In the book you also point out the difficulty of reconstructing the ancient environment that evolutionary psychologists argue has shaped the human mind.

Foraminifera are a boon to palaeontologists as identifiers of geological strata and ancient environments.

UNSW's Associate Professor Suzanne Hand, who is a specialist in extinct bats and their ecological role in Riversleigh's ancient environments, says the bats could have played a role in the extraordinary preservation of the ostracod sperm cells.

«The fact that we are finding different species in Libya suggests that ancient environments in northern Africa were becoming very patchy at this time, probably because of global cooling and drying which began a short time earlier,» he said.

These data will help the researchers find out about the potential changes in the ancient environment of the area.

The area ahead could offer additional insight into the presence of water, how long it may have persisted, and whether the ancient environment may have been suitable for life.»

Because the formation of clay minerals requires water, the rocks ahead could provide additional information about the presence of water at Gale Crater, how long it remained there and whether the ancient environment may have been suitable for life.

Research teams associated with the museum have been working in these ancient environments collecting fossil vertebrates, invertebrates and plants to try to reconstruct what was present here million years ago.

Studying the wildlife of a modern East African savanna ecosystem provides students an analog for studying the ancient environment of the Lake Turkana Basin, which millions of years ago was much more lush and green than today.

That's totally different from how in Demon's Souls you were a trapped soul and in both Dark Souls games you were afflicted with the curse of the undead, and you had to explore an ancient environment now brought to ruin.

In the footage we see a young male character traverse an ancient environment, interact with and solve puzzles with a giant but infant half - cat, half - griffon creature as per the game's original concept.

In Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments (V. Gornitz, Ed.).