Sentences with phrase «as their skeletons show»

Bleaching happens when stressed corals expel their life - providing algae, turning reefs stark white as their skeletons show through.

Not exact matches

In the short term, then, HGI will show us the genetic structure of humanity, much as we have known the human skeleton.

An illustration based on the original excavator's description of a 10th century Swedish grave shows a human skeleton — now identified as female — placed near weapons, gaming pieces and two stirrups.

We can guess that this coat was lost by the time of Homo erectus, as its skeleton's proportions show that it was adapting to heat stress like modern humans do, and part of our adaptation involves an enhanced sweat gland cooling system which would not function well with a full coat of body hair.

The as - yet - unpublished ancient DNA from the nearly complete skeleton of this individual will show that he lacked genetic variants for light skin that spread later in Europeans, according to researchers at the Natural History Museum in London who have unveiled a new reconstruction; they say a scientific paper is coming later this month.

The hoop style, as well as buttons and fasteners for clothing found with other skeletons, showed that these people died in the mid-1800s — too late to be victims of the Black Death.

The genome of a famous 8,500 - year - old North American skeleton, known as Kennewick Man, shows that he is closely related to Native American tribes that have for decades been seeking to bury his bones.

Now a team of scientists has shown that even cells in the skeleton — which we commonly think of as mere scaffolding — exude a hormone that helps the body store fat and regulate sugar levels in the blood.

Borić and Price analyzed skeletons whose age had been directly determined by radiocarbon dating and spotted a significant change in the strontium profile right around the time that the first signs of Neolithic culture show up, as they report online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Two newborn guppies from Trinidad's Aripo river show clear differences in the maturity of their skeletons: The guppy from upstream (top), which spent longer in gestation, has more mature bone development as indicated by darker staining than the guppy from downstream, which was born earlier in maturity.

In our screen, we identified 72 adult viable mutants showing changes in the shape of the skeleton as well as defects in pigmentation.

Also, to Ms. Taymor's credit, she intelligently provides at times inspired touches such as — stop motion action shots, color tinting in brightly exotic desert shades, finely textured black - and - white sequences, shots of Diego in New York to do the Rockefeller commissioned mural against a lively Dadaist collage of the New York setting, Frida's dream of her hubby as King Kong, a puppet show in the hospital (with the help of the gifted Quay brothers animations of skeletons in the post-accident emergency room — the skeletons were copied from one of Frida's paintings).

So authentic and believable in their roles that at times I thought I was watching a documentary, a National Geographic show witnessing humans in their domesticated environment — tension's rising as the female digs up the male's skeletons in the closet.

Disney's latest Pixar film, Coco, may feature gorgeous visuals and shambling skeletons, but as shown in the final trailer for the upcoming film, the heart of Coco is family.

A quick glimpse at her resume shows strong work in indie darlings like The Skeleton Twins and Diary of a Teenage Girl, as well as riskier choices in more offbeat offerings like Hateship Loveship and Welcome to Me.

Directed by Iain Softley, who never met a project he could elevate, The Skeleton Key is more likely just ignorant trash so desperate for twist - hungry jackasses left in the lurch by patron saint Shyamalan that its central promotional campaign seems to involve having Hudson exclaim as often as possible on shows like «Access Hollywood» that the twist ending surprised her.

She has appeared in such films as «Skeleton Key» and «Vacancy 2» and on such television shows as «One Tree Hill,» «Brothers and Sisters» and «Hawthorne.»

But Clowes, who wrote the screenplay, and director Craig Johnson, as director (following his success with The Skeleton Twins) show more affinity for anarchic humor than pathos.

They let Jyl work with the skinning knife, showed her how to separate the muscles lengthwise with her fingers before cutting them free of the skeleton, and the quartered ham and shoulder — the backstrap unscrolling beneath the urging of her knife, the meat as dense as stone, it seemed, yet as fluid as a river, and so beautiful in that sunlight, maroon to nearly purple, nearly iridescent in its richness, and in the absence of any intramuscular fat.

In the gameplay shown there were a wide range of NPC characters which included; a tear shaped flame monster, and garlic creature exhausting odor, a giant stone creature with mechanical elements, ghost looking creatures, jack o'lantern pumpkin heads with skeleton bodies, and stone creatures with their pieces bouncing independently as they moved.

I remember being shown a depth - sensing camera, very similar to Kinect, but it didn't have any of the skeleton recognition, so it didn't recognise you as a humanoid with limbs.

Based on the look we got, it's a multiplayer, first - person pirate game — the trailer shows multiple players exploring islands, finding treasure (angering skeletons), and manning a ship as a crew.

Rather less challenging to achieve are the marginally less brutal X-ray moves, which show off your opponents» skeleton and internal organs as you pound them to a pulp.

Latrobe's Rattlesnake Skeleton (c. 1804) shows in minute detail every vertebra and delicate rib of the snake's body as it stretches over two long sheets of creamy paper.

Royal Academy, London There is far more to Belgian misfit James Ensor than masks and skeletons, as this exemplary show reveals

There is far more to Belgian misfit James Ensor than masks and skeletons, as this exemplary show reveals