Sentences with phrase «as carnivorous»

Cane toads, researchers found, share the same open habitats and are active during the same times of day as the carnivorous ants.

It's still a common question: can vegetarians perform as well as their carnivorous counterparts in physical competition?

Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi's Island contains 48 levels across six worlds, having you traverse flower field - filled lands and chippy rocky mountains on escalating carousels while battling enemies such as carnivorous plants with teeth and even stoic caterpillars.

It's inspired by your cat's heritage as a carnivorous predator.

Some people say that this is because of their roots as carnivorous animals.

As carnivorous animals, protein is one of the most important nutrients a dog gets, so why would they ever need a low - protein food?

Our heroine, Jesse (Elle Fanning), is not unlike Jessica Harper, a bright - eyed newcomer who must contend with jealousy and suspicion at every turn as carnivorous huntsman, barely camouflaged, hiding in plain sight, hover around her, awaiting her virginal offerings.

Meat - eating seems unlikely to be a cause of cancer as carnivorous Inuit and Masai have extremely low cancer rates, while the vegetarian Hindus had a prevalence of cancers (circa 1910).

Linse expects to find something similar to ecosystems found in the deep sea — a dark, extremely food - sparse environment that spawns odd creatures such as carnivorous sponges and bivalves.

In 2008, Fornaciari analyzed carbon and nitrogen ratios in bone collagen from other princes of Naples and the Medici of Florence, and found that they had as much nitrogen in their diet as carnivorous mammals.

Such environments can spawn odd creatures, such as carnivorous sponges and bivalves that snatch at the tiniest sources of food to survive.

Although meat «technically» contains all the protein we need, human bodies do not absorb these proteins as well as carnivorous animals, so we need to find other, more bioavailable sources of protein.

Not exact matches

As seen in the video, it took Bananasaurus Rex a few tries before getting through the whole level, which is peppered with lots of Super Mario - sized threats, including bombs, carnivorous plants and Buzzy Beetles.

Humanity's carnivorous behavior only began as a result of the Fall.

Griffin says no chemicals are used to control the bugs because he added carnivorous plants to his operation that act as the terminator of all pests.

Recently I've departed (temporarily) from my carnivorous nature by marinating things other than meat such as Teriyaki Portobello Mushroom Burgers with a Wasabi Aioli and now fresh pineapple wedges.

Turns out, you just need some mad meat - swap skills to create a dish your omnivorous (and carnivorous) guests will mow down just as happily as your very appreciative cruelty - free friends.

Their culture's so carnivorous, they actually think fish isn't «meat», so when they make that for me as my «special vegan option,» I sometimes find it easier just to pick at the fish a bit than try to explain in broken Portuguese why vegans don't eat fish,» she sighs.

My carnivorous husband felt it would benefit from the addition of sausage, but I loved it as is.

I've got a bunch of your recipes I'm making for Thanksgiving this year as well — let's see which of my carnivorous family members comments on how delicious they are first!

Cheeseburger lovers with variations of «burger» — such as Hamburger, Berger, etc. — in their names will receive one free Smashburger signature recipe, or create your own, burger in recognition of the carnivorous holiday.

The discovery raises the possibility that other big, carnivorous dinos, including the renowned T. rex, may have sported plumage as well.

«The carnivorous theropods were more closely related to the herbivorous ornithischians and, what's more, some animals, such as Diplodocus, would fall outside the traditional grouping that we called dinosaurs.

Carnivorous species died as their food sources did, but those dinosaurs with toothless beaks could feast on fallen seeds long after plants died.

The differences they found in the cat genome help explain characteristics such as why cats are almost exclusively carnivorous and how their vision and sense of smell differ from other animals like dogs.

Without nutrients, potential pollinators such as insects and birds are scarce, and the appetites of carnivorous plants compound the problem.

The scientific community previously thought that this extinct animal from North America was exclusively carnivorous, but, as pointed out by Mr Figueirido, «we dethroned the largest hypercarnivorous mammal ever to roam the Earth.»

According to remains found in recent years in Els Casots, these crocodiles would also have shared their habitat with large mammals: rhinoceroses, the equid genus Anchitherium, peccaries, mouse - deer, primitive pigs and bovines, extinct relatives of elephants (including the mastodon and a proto - elephant named deinotherium) and some carnivorous species, such as the so - called bear dogs and felids, hyaenids and extinct mustelids.

As an international study conducted by the University of Zurich based on 3D reconstructions of animal skeletons reveals for the first time: Herbivorous mammals have bigger bellies than their usually slim carnivorous counterparts.

The Tasmanian Devil, also referred to simply as «the devil», is a carnivorous marsupial now found only in the Australian island state of Tasmania.

The fossils discussed in the paper are of dinosaurs of the species Ornithomimus edmontonicus, which means they looked something like modern ostriches, and are theropods — bipedal and carnivorous — as are most of the feathered dinosaurs already known to science.

Of course such efforts at biocontrol have backfired in the past in some cases, most famously with the introduction of the cane toad to Australia (although recent efforts to use carnivorous Australian ants as a biocontrol on the invasive toads are showing some success).

Theropods encompass all carnivorous dinosaurs, including the largest land - living predators in the history of life on Earth, such as Tyrannosaurus, and iconic agile hunters like Velociraptor.

As Fukushima explains, «Carnivorous plants often live in nutrient - poor environments, so the ability to trap and digest animals can be indispensable given the dearth of other sources of nourishment.»

Photographed here in its native range in Western Australia, this carnivorous plant evolved to digest insects through a strikingly similar evolutionary pathway as other plants that developed the same capability independently, a new study finds.

The idea for a simple experiment that essentially involved playing God in the rocky intertidal zone came to him during a visit to the Scripps Institution Wharf in California, as he stood watching the carnivorous sea star Pisaster ochraceus devour the mussel Mytilus californianus.

Instead, Dunn identified the more complex comb jellyfish — a carnivorous ocean drifter — as the earliest to diverge from the animal family tree.

Praying mantises are carnivorous insects with powerful raptorial front legs that usually depend on arthropods such as insects or spiders as their primary prey.

Then they compared the two endocasts with those for seven fossils of early cynodonts — carnivorous reptiles that are close relatives of the first mammals — as well as with endocasts for 27 other primitive mammals that lived between 65 million and 190 million years ago and with the brains of 270 living mammals.

Several species — such as the thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial, or the forest ox known as the kouprey — have been searched for many times without success, that likely indicates they really are extinct, Fisher and Blomberg suggest.

As embryos, birds seem to develop the equivalent of our middle three fingers, but theropods — two - legged, primarily carnivorous dinosaurs from which birds are thought to have evolved — sport the equivalent of our thumb, index, and middle fingers.

He hopes to answer that question by doing similar studies on other blood compounds and other carnivorous species, such as wolves.

Methylmercury is a potent neurotoxin that gets concentrated in big, long - lived carnivorous fish such as tuna and swordfish.

Especially England, Northern Germany and Spain host hundreds of footprints from carnivorous dinosaurs, aged 140 - 145 million years old — all from the same geological period as the footprints, examined by Pernille Venø Troelsen.

Venus flytrap A carnivorous plant with a specialized leaf that acts as a trap for insects.

«Studies of bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs − such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor − keep finding more and more bird - like traits, such as feathers, wishbones, hollow skeletons and a three - fingered hand,» Lee said.

Birds are the direct descendants of a group of feathered, carnivorous dinosaurs that, along with true birds, are referred to as paravians — examples...

Speaking as a once - upon - a-time vegetarian who now indulges in the occasional carnivorous meal, I often have trouble justifying my meat consumption.

While not as tall as the primarily carnivorous, cattle herding groups, they were physically better proportioned and had greater strength.

criticisms and comparisons generally label all other diets as «meat based», or «carnivorous» even though these diets are also generally based on plant foods as well.