Sentences with phrase «body sizes of»

«Warmer temperatures may also lead to decreases in maximum body sizes of marine fishes,» write the authors of the study, a team of scientists from the University of British Columbia.

Over the past half - century, the body sizes of several Appalachian salamander species have shrunk by nearly 10 percent.

A dozen new footprints from the S1 (N = 11) and S2 (N = 1) trails are sufficiently complete to estimate the body sizes of their makers (again, presumably A. afarensis) as well as approximate walking speeds.

After measuring a sample from the Natural History Museum's worldwide collection of beetles, Professor Stork compared the mean body size with the changing body sizes of British beetles to reveal that roughly 10 per cent of the world's beetles have been named and described.

On page 812 of this issue, Sallan and Galimberti (1) show that trends in the body sizes of vertebrates during the Devonian and Mississippian (about 420 to 325 million years ago) not only are markedly different at different times but also likely reflect a variety of different evolutionary mechanisms.

But, he notes, «we saw some fluctuations from wet to dry to wet to dry in these intervals, and the body sizes of these animals aren't changing» in parallel.

The First Temperatures The earliest temperature measurements by Derham and others amounted to a sort of religious inquiry: They documented not only the weather, but also the body sizes of gnats and wasps and the dates on which snowdrop flowers bloomed and thrushes began to sing each spring.

He turned his light on it, expecting to see a small mammal but instead, «couldn't quite understand what I was seeing,» That's because human eyes were never meant to rest upon the South American Goliath birdeater — a spider that measures one foot across, with a body the size of your fist and two - inch fangs.

The wraps are bulky and may have too much extra tail length depending on the body size of the wearer.

Fregata magnificens, the most aerial of waterbirds, possesses the largest wingspan (four to five feet) in proportion to its body size of any bird in the world.

There are a wide variety of factors that can cause stretch marks to appear during pregnancy however the most common cause is due to the rapid and significant weight gain during pregnancy as well as the change in the body size of the expecting mother.

Over time, the average body size of mammals on those other continents approached and then fell well below Africa's.

With the longest legs relative to body size of any wild cat, the serval is also one of the fastest, able to run at speeds up to fifty miles per hour.

Based on his group's observations, Moss argues that the increase in body size of marine bivalves throughout the Phanerozoic, the current geologic eon stretching back more than 540 million years, should be accompanied by a shift to faster growth and a shorter lifespan.

With a body the size of a small child and a wingspan of up to two meters, the Blakiston's fish owl (Bubo blakistoni) is the largest owl in the world.

Some of these accelerated regions of evolution may impart the recognizable traits we attribute to each species, like the wings of a bat, the massive body size of the elephant and the unique coloring of the thirteen - lined ground squirrel.

The heavy elements, or metals, were surprising because white dwarfs contain about as much mass as the Sun squeezed into bodies the size of the Earth, giving them surface gravities 10,000 times stronger than the Sun's.

Although Lucy had a brain and body the size of a large chimp — and probably slept in a tree nest — she walked fully upright and her species may already have lost its agility in trees as it adapted to life on the ground.

Now a report published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the size of a landmass limits the maximal body size of its top animal.

Another possibility is that K2 - 229b was formed after a huge impact between two giant astronomical bodies in space billions of years ago — much like the theory that the Moon was formed after Earth collided with a body the size of Mars.

«One of the most surprising finds was that 125,000 years ago, the average body size of mammals on Africa was already 50 percent smaller than on other continents,» said Smith, a professor in the UNM Department of Biology who has studied megafauna extinction for more than 15 years.

The body size of the avatar was manipulated by setting a different Body Mass Index (BMI) for the normal or obese virtual character.

This study compiled the information of climatic parameters for more than 60 current localities from Africa and Asia, including information of the body size of the mammalian species that inhabit these localities.

The body size of every species is largely influenced by the environmental conditions of the habitat where each species lives.

So a long - standing riddle has been where did our ancestors get that extra energy to expand their minds as they evolved from animals with brains and bodies the size of chimpanzees?

They pay much more attention to higher scent marks than those lower down, which suggests they use the marks to gauge the body size of competitors.

Now, with these data serving as the basis for their models, Allgeier and collaborators can estimate the total amount of nutrient output from fish by knowing the species and body size of fish in a coral reef community.

New research suggests the diamonds packed inside these meteorites could have only formed within a planetary body the size of Mercury or Mars — a planet that no longer exists.

They found that bodies the size of the moon formed relatively quickly, within the first 10,000 years, before chondrules were thought to have appeared.

The simulations suggest that planetary bodies the size of the moon existed prior to the creation of the earliest chondrules, and that it was the enormous pressures produced by a collision between two such bodies that were responsible for the formation of the glassy spheres.

Based on early plans, Europa Clipper will be a larger spacecraft with two 29 - foot solar panels and a main body the size of a school bus.

This artist's concept shows a celestial body about the size of our moon slamming at great speed into a body the size of Mercury.

«The body size of mannequins used to advertise female fashion is unrealistic and would be considered medically unhealthy in humans,» the researchers concluded.

The model provides the benefits of the Subaru wagon - style in an overall body size of less than 4 meters in length.

The fourth - generation Santa Fe does away with the smaller body size of the «Sport», all markets now receiving a longer wheelbase iteration that Hyundai says is «compact enough to easily park and manoeuvrer, yet spacious and flexible enough inside to comfortably carry your family or active lifestyle».

The focus is only on the wick size, the body size of the candlestick isn't important.

Since this syndrome is seen predominantly in very small dogs, it is tempting to speculate that the disease may be partially linked to increased antigenic load in comparison to the body size of the dog, since the same volume of rabies vaccine is given to all dogs subcutaneously.

If you think that the lifespan depends on the body size of an animal, generally, such statement is true.

While humans, horses, dogs, cats, rats, mice, ferrets and hamsters are also monogastric, the rabbit has the largest stomach in relation to his body size of any of the monogastric animals.

There tends to be a creep upward in the body size of many breeds.

The body size of the 3DS XL will be increased by 46 % and the screen size will be 90 % larger.

Thirty - seven hours later, a pile of bodies the size of a mountain in my wake, I was still having fun slicing up goblins and direwolves.

Maybe it happened when you were staring at the unbelievably large body size of elephants or unreasonably long necks of giraffes at a zoo, maybe it happened when you were in the front yard and you came across a bird that fell from its nest, or when you caught a grasshopper and gave it a closer look, or maybe it happened when you saw your first plant sprout from a seed.

Body size of late Quaternary mammals.

«Our studies show that males and females follow the same pattern and it is similar in two different species, which suggests that climate plays an important role in determining the body size of butterflies in Northeast Greenland,» says senior scientist Toke T. Høye, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University.

But we can't be sure of the effects on many species yet, as only very few field studies have been able to follow changes in the body size of the same species over a period where the climate has changed.

iPhone X gives you get the best OLED display in the industry, at Plus size, crammed into a body the size of the regular iPhone.

«This phone gives you the jumbo screen size of a Plus model into the compact body size of the non-Plus iPhones,» wrote David Pogue for Yahoo Finance.

Since the main idea here seems like increasing the display size, it can still be achieved using a body size of the Galaxy S7, which could probably lead to a 5.5 - inch gadget with no bezels.

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