Sentences with phrase «at least a dozen species»
«At least a dozen species in the ocean Columbus sailed were bigger than his biggest ship,» says marine paleoecologist Jeremy Jackson of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
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As a result, at least a dozen species of birds of prey now make their homes in urban areas.
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Overfishing, in fact, threatens at least a dozen other species.
SAN FRANCISCO — A joint Indonesian — U.S. expedition in the Sulawesi Sea mapped at least 25 different types of undersea habitats and may have discovered dozens of new species, scientists announced here December 13 at the American Geophysical Union meeting.
The fungus, which is lethal to at least a dozen European and North American salamander and newt species, has not yet reached the Americas, says Lips, a UMD associate professor of biology and one of the world's top experts in amphibian diseases.
Biologists and veterinarians across the central and eastern United States are calling on researchers at the University of Illinois to help them identify, understand and potentially treat snake fungal disease, a baffling affliction affecting more than a dozen species of wild and captive snakes in at least 15 states.
«I have at least a dozen more new Oreophryne species remaining to be described from this region, and large portions of this terrane system remain unsurveyed.»