Sentences with phrase «ancient trees in»

Home to some of the most ancient trees in the country, Glen Finglas was historically the hideaway of whisky smugglers.

You will travel by coach, walk on beaches, stroll through the ancient trees in the Tsitsikamma National Park, and you could even choose to ride an ostrich... and yes, you'll relax and drink in the beauty of it all.

The picturesque villages are set in the shade of ancient trees in a reserve of forest and grassland.

Scenic Highlights: Immerse yourself in the stark beauty of Death Valley, cross the stunning Sierra Nevada mountains, explore world - famous Yosemite National Park, marvel at ancient trees in Sequoia National Park, visit the world renowned Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Researchers studying the rings of ancient trees in mountainous central Mongolia think they may have gotten at the mystery of how small bands of nomadic Mongol horsemen united to conquer much of the world within a span of decades, 800 years ago.

The Ancient Tree Hunt is a five - year project led by the Woodland Trust, which is recording every ancient tree in Britain.

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Called «Etz Hayim» («Tree of Life» in Hebrew), it offers an interpretation that incorporates the latest findings from archaeology, philology, anthropology and the study of ancient cultures.

@ Cedar Tree:????? All sorts of miraculous, superhuman nonsense has been attributed to ancient rulers of other figures of yore whose existence was once accepted by this or that group and who may or may not have been based in part on some historical person or persons and absolutely NO ONE these days takes every word in every text written about these figures to be literal truth.

Perhaps all the details (light on the first day, dry land on the second day, a garden with two trees, the snake, etc) were just a way of explaining these relationships to ancient peoples in terms they could understand.

The custom of the ancient Scottish University of Aberdeen is to erect a large tree on the quad in the weeks before Christmas.

Listening to and following liars and adulterers and child molesters and terrorists in the name of some built - up ancient healer, (or talking burning tree or hateful psychopath) is a sick joke on humanity.

Christmas traditions of gift - giving, evergreen trees and even mistletoe and holly originated in ancient Babylon during the feast of the Son of Isis, which was held on (drumroll, please!)

The cross was not the means of execution used to kill Jesus of Nazareth, but an upright pole or «tree» as the Greek term literally means in ancient manuscripts.

In all this, too, it is possible to discern the traits of kingship in the portrait of man, expressed not only through the naming ritual but also in the ancient cultic symbolism of the tending and watering of the tree of life, a sacral duty of the kinIn all this, too, it is possible to discern the traits of kingship in the portrait of man, expressed not only through the naming ritual but also in the ancient cultic symbolism of the tending and watering of the tree of life, a sacral duty of the kinin the portrait of man, expressed not only through the naming ritual but also in the ancient cultic symbolism of the tending and watering of the tree of life, a sacral duty of the kinin the ancient cultic symbolism of the tending and watering of the tree of life, a sacral duty of the king.

Only after an elucidation of the specific meanings of the Cosmic Tree in Mesopotamia or in ancient India can one understand the symbolism of Yggdrasil or the Cosmic Trees of Central Asia and of Siberia.

By William Agnew Patton In the midst of this cooly district there is an open space, an acre or two in extent, densely shaded by a very ancient, and far - spreading banyan - tree, under the branches of which the cooly people hold their markeIn the midst of this cooly district there is an open space, an acre or two in extent, densely shaded by a very ancient, and far - spreading banyan - tree, under the branches of which the cooly people hold their markein extent, densely shaded by a very ancient, and far - spreading banyan - tree, under the branches of which the cooly people hold their market.

From the comforting ancient trees of the Texas Hill Country, flat nothingness of West Texas, smooth mini mountains in New Mexico, and the biggest boulders I've ever seen in my life in Eastern Arizona... -LCB- we keep reciting Donkey's line from Shrek movie: «that's a nice boulder.» -RCB-

Sochi, the summer getaway town of my youth, where I stayed with my aunt in her ancient house with an outdoor shower and palm and fig trees in the backyard, holds an incredibly special place in my heart.

They were a delicacy at feasts in ancient Rome, and the Romans dedicated the tree to Minerva, goddess of wisdom.

Organic baobab powder is an exotic fruit grown on the ancient, majestic baobab trees in Ghana, Africa.

Learn bonsai, the ancient Japanese art of growing trees in miniature.

Baltic Amber is fossilized tree resin of ancient pine trees that grew over 50 million years ago in Northern Europe on the shores of the Baltic Sea.

Some scientists are shaking up the dinosaur family tree and raising questions about which features define the ancient reptiles, Carolyn Gramling reported in «New fossils are redefining what makes a dinosaur» (SN: 3/3/18, p. 18).

Noh - Bec is not ancient; it was founded in the 1930s by chicleros — people who made their living mainly by harvesting natural chewing gum from chicle found in trees that abound in the Yucatán.

So much so, in fact, that its discoverers argue that the ancient human family tree should be pruned of many of its species, which may simply be different forms of H. erectus.

Many hours later, it leads to an area of protected land called Iwokrama, a Rhode Island - size forest in the heart of Guyana, crowded with ancient buttress - trunked trees draped in liana vines.

The authors summarized work that investigated the genomes of more than 20 ancients in the Eurasian family tree, including the 45,000 - year - old Ust» - Ishim individual from Central Siberia, for their paper.

In order to determine what the root of their family tree looked like, biologists need reliable dating information for the most ancient animal subgroups — the sponges, cnidarians, comb jellies and placozoans.

First, they showed that the new species derives from the ancestors of all known microsporidians and further, that the microsporidians derive from the most ancient fungi; thus its exact place in the tree of life has finally been found.

In some of the e-mail messages, Dr. Mann refers to his assembly of data from a number of different sources, including ancient tree rings and earth core samples, as a «trick.»

«The ancient iconic symbolism and cultural impact of the olive tree in Europe and the Mediterranean gives this disease an impact I haven't experienced with grapes, citrus and other crops that were hit suddenly with Xylella,» he told Scientific American on Skype.

Ancient ancestors of today's pine, cypress and yew trees had extra copies of their entire genome — the set of genetic instructions for an organism, researchers report November 20 in Science Advances.

Ancient ancestors of today's pine, cypress and yew trees had extra copies of their entire genome, the set of genetic instructions for an organism, researchers report November 20 in Science Advances.

The Norian Chinle Formation in the Southwestern United States provides a snapshot into an ancient terrestrial ecosystem with its famous petrified tree trunks and various plant and vertebrate remains.

He points to research that shows that mammoths and other large herbivores trampling across the ancient Arctic ecosystems helped maintain the grasslands by knocking down trees and spreading grass seeds in the dung.

Hanqin Tian, an ecologist at Auburn University in Alabama who studies modern grasslands, is working on models to correlate ancient grass production with the tree - ring records of weather.

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

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In its natural state, Lost Mountain was swathed in ancient rain forest that was home to more than 80 tree specieIn its natural state, Lost Mountain was swathed in ancient rain forest that was home to more than 80 tree speciein ancient rain forest that was home to more than 80 tree species.

When the ice age ended, these ancient species and other, more recent ones were ready to take advantage of habitats that opened up in the mountains» higher elevations — and the plants and trees speciated like mad.

Using props and examples from the fossil record, the scientists showed how the very adaptations that have made humans so successful — such as upright walking and our big, complex brains — have been the result of constant remodeling of an ancient ape body plan that was originally used for life in the trees.

Using propagation techniques (see slide show for more details), Archangel has cloned ancient coast redwoods, sequoias, oaks and more than 150 other tree species, preserving their genetics in the process.

Although the bacteria shared common features (most live inside animals and many cause disease), the pattern of species carrying and lacking the gene suggested that the gene had been shuffled horizontally in the family tree, between distantly related species, not passed down from an ancient ancestor.

And now, a study describes the extent to which ancient peoples changed the distribution of trees in the forest around them.

An ancient text suggests that an eighth - century jump in carbon 14 levels in trees could be explained by a previously unrecognized supernova explosion

Matthew Salzer of the Laboratory of Tree - Ring Research at the University of Arizona in Tucson and colleagues took cores from ancient trees at three sites in the White Mountains of eastern California and the Ruby mountains of Nevada.

It evolved in such a way that it obtains all its water, minerals and carbohydrates from fungi — in this case, the plant's root system takes what it needs from fungi on ancient tree roots, even if the roots are all that remain in now - deforested areas.

Scientists see it in tree rings, ancient coral and bubbles trapped in ice cores.

We next applied rarecoal to 524 samples from six populations in Europe (Fig. 3c, d) to estimate a European demographic tree into which we could place the ancient samples.

April 14, 2015 Ancient herbal therapy can prevent — and reverse — cardiac hypertrophy in mice A natural compound derived from the bark of the magnolia tree, can protect the heart from hypertrophy, a thickening of cardiac muscle often caused by chronic high blood pressure that can lead to heart failure, researchers report in the April 14 issue of the online journal Nature Communications.