Sentences with phrase «as woolly»

3 Play with colour and texture: Mix bold hues and bring in tactile materials, such as woolly knits and worn woods.

It appears as a woolly growth on damp or decaying organic material.

You have life experience; you've had more interview practice, and most importantly, you know that the real world isn't quite as woolly as the cosy sanctuary of university.

Sometimes, though, it's every bit as woolly as that sounds.

Located on a green eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes, enjoy tours from the Cock of the Rock Lodge to see different wildlife, such as the woolly monkeys, spectacled bears, hummingbirds, cock of the rocks, brown capuchin monkeys quetzals and more.

The coat, irrespective of color, has a typical coarse outer layer, as well as a woolly and dense undercoat.

The gearchange, far from being as sharp as a Barack Obama suit, is as woolly and long - winded as one of the President's unscripted press conference rambles.

These could have included migrating schools of fish and / or terrestrial mammals such as woolly mammoths, steppe bison, and caribou.

The rapidly falling costs of genome sequencing has sparked initiatives to sequence the genomes of all living species, and thanks to improved ancient DNA methods the genomes of extinct species such as the woolly mammoth, thylacine, and passenger pigeon are also attainable.

The big - cat fossils are the latest addition to a string of mammalian fossils recently found in Tibet, says Wang, including pikas, horses, hyenas and pre-Ice Age fauna such as the woolly rhino and Tibetan blue sheep.

Using tiny amounts of material the researchers recovered and analyzed fragments of mitochondrial DNA — genetic material from the mitochondria, the «energy factories» of the cell — and identified them as belonging to twelve different mammalian families that include extinct species such as the woolly mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros, the cave bear and the cave hyena.

CONSERVATION AND CLONING • Although we may soon have the biotechnology tools necessary to revive long - extinct species, such as woolly mammoths, we should focus more on efforts to save the 20,000 species now in grave danger of extinction, the Editors state in this month's Science Agenda.

* Correction 2 November, 2:30 p.m.: An earlier version of this story incorrectly described the silk by some orb weavers as woolly when viscid is accurate.

The extinction of the large animals took place in virtually all climate zones and affected cold - adapted species such as woolly mammoths, temperate species such as forest elephants and giant deer, and tropical species such as giant cape buffalo and some giant sloths.

With the science nearly upon us, a new book highlights the ethical and logistical issues of bringing back proxies of extinct animals such as the woolly mammoth

It is perhaps no accident that the timing of this occupation coincides with a major extinction of larger ice age mammals such as the woolly mammoth and woolly rhinoceros.

Then, about 12,600 years ago, steppe plants like aromatic sagebrush appeared, followed soon after by animals such as woolly mammoth, bison, and jackrabbits.

Some researchers are working on science that could one day resurrect extinct species, such as the woolly mammoth.

They see them at best as stool pigeons for furthering their own agenda, at worst as woolly minded hypocrites who lack the courage to follow the rigorous path of «reason».

There were also many mammals of the same time period which were a great deal larger than todays elephants such as the Wooly Mammoth.

As Woolies learnt last year with its disastrous ANZAC campaign, and as ALDI is discovering now after refusing to heed the call to phase out caged eggs (as Woolworths and Coles are doing), the consequences of alienating consumers are very real — and very public.»

What might have seemed like a lively idea — an all - star roundelay about love in Los Angeles — is as fossilized as the wooly mammoths in the La Brea Tar Pits.

Pseudo scientists coming up with theories and refusing to show their supporting data and then refusing to even begin to try to find holes in their own theories, making theories as wooly as possible to ensure that their «science» is unfalsifiable, and therefore NOT scientific at all.

Replace white slipcovers with reds and blues for an autumnal look, swap the sisal area rug for a stately Oriental, or try heavier patterns, such as the wooly tartan on this room's ottoman.

Not exact matches

The Frenchman's lessons, as summarized by Poulos, are sometimes woolly — the difference between «performing our autonomy» (bad) and «experiencing our freedom» (good) is not intuitively clear to me — but nevertheless are provocative in the way that abstractions can be.

At everyone's feet are seven of the woolliest sheep you could wish to meet, all falling around laughing for joy; one even seems to be holding its sides as it laughs.

But given there is no specific fight between CCA and Woolies, it appears that CCA is being caught in the broader push by the supermarket giants to make drastic cuts to the number of different products (known in the trade as stock keeping units or SKUs) in a bid to simplify their ranges, increase private label sales and — perhaps most importantly — cut costs.

«Woolies looked at the convenience side as a redemption outlet for shopper dockets, whereas Coles looked at it as a true business,» he said.

That's probably more a reflection that Woolies and Coles — along with Metcash Limited (ASX: MTS)-- the supplier to independent IGA stores have finally acknowledged Aldi as a serious threat, and are now actively pushing back against the upstart retailer.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's latest action regarding fuel discounts («Coles, Woolies fight ACCC over fuel discounts», AFR, February 25) is about as relevant as determining how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

In Australia, major retailers such as McDonald's, Coles & Woolies have agreed to phase out caged eggs.

Despite our concerns with Aldi as a customer, I'm extremely glad to have sold our Woolies shares earlier this year.

I like to think of it as easy comfort food: hearty, cozy and reliable, or in other words, the warm wooly sweater of family dinners.

Late in the summer of» 55, having just begun to prowl the cigar - lit grandstands and sun - dried aprons of Chicago racetracks, I awoke one morning to find myself in the unblinking eye of the wildest, woolliest sporting storm to blow through Chicago since... well, as my father used to say, since Dempsey and Tunney fought the Long Count at Soldier Field in the fall of» 27.

Made from the softest recycled wool sweaters she could find, these «woolies» are designed to pull over cloth diapers, but Eddy also suggests the woolies can be worn over disposable diapers as clothing.

As a special treat for good behaviour, we've got three copies of Wooly Woofers to give away.

Wool diaper covers, or woollies as we call them around here, are just that.

Omega - 3 fatty acids EPA and DHA support that gorgeous wooly coat as well as healthy cerebral development, while optimized protein levels help to maintain lean muscle.

The aim of current de-extinction efforts is to use gene - editing tools to engineer living species to re-create extinct cousins, such as engineering a woolly mammoth from an elephant.

John Stewart said, «During the Ice Age just over 40 thousand years ago in the north of England Neanderthals were living in an environment which included extinct animals like woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos and cave hyenas as well as the more familiar horses and reindeer.

Males were more likely to die in natural traps such as tar pits, ice lakes, mudflows, and bogs, according to a new study in Current Biology of DNA extracted from 98 fossilized woolly mammoths found across the Siberian landscape.

Because the harsh environment destroys exposed fossils, most remains known to scientists were preserved in such traps (such as the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California, pictured above, which trapped Columbian mammoths — close relatives of their woolly cousins).

«What was really surprising was that the forest elephant and the savannah elephant were as diverged as the Asian elephant and woolly mammoth,» says Reich.

As wonderful as blogging is, there's very little that's going to contribute to a grant or paper,» said Dr. Isis, a pseudonymous blogger who focuses on gender issues in science and scientific lifestyles, when she spoke at ScienceOnline2011 by video link, wearing sunglasses, a surgical mask, and a woolly pirate hat to conceal her identitAs wonderful as blogging is, there's very little that's going to contribute to a grant or paper,» said Dr. Isis, a pseudonymous blogger who focuses on gender issues in science and scientific lifestyles, when she spoke at ScienceOnline2011 by video link, wearing sunglasses, a surgical mask, and a woolly pirate hat to conceal her identitas blogging is, there's very little that's going to contribute to a grant or paper,» said Dr. Isis, a pseudonymous blogger who focuses on gender issues in science and scientific lifestyles, when she spoke at ScienceOnline2011 by video link, wearing sunglasses, a surgical mask, and a woolly pirate hat to conceal her identity.

Resurrecting woolly mammoths, passenger pigeons and other extinct creatures isn't just a technological problem, as this book explains.

The camera trap and interview data showed that large - bodied species and species forming large groups, such as white lipped peccaries, woolly monkeys and tapirs, are indeed depleted near to communities.

But the more recent geological history also included colossal animals such as the giant sloths, woolly rhinoceroses, and mammoths.

As time ran out for the woolly rhino, strange things happened.

Just as the ends of a flat piece of paper can be joined to form a cylinder, so the ends of Taimina's woolly octagon can be joined to form a double cylinder.

As cool as it might be to visit a zoo filled with woolly mammoths, saber - toothed tigers, and giant tortoises, the best reasons for bringing back extinct animals have more to do with ecology than tourisAs cool as it might be to visit a zoo filled with woolly mammoths, saber - toothed tigers, and giant tortoises, the best reasons for bringing back extinct animals have more to do with ecology than tourisas it might be to visit a zoo filled with woolly mammoths, saber - toothed tigers, and giant tortoises, the best reasons for bringing back extinct animals have more to do with ecology than tourism.