Sentences with phrase «called living fossil»

The sharks are called living fossil because their evolution has remained unchanged for 80 million years.

Often called living fossils, these eel - like misfits have lungs and fleshy pectoral fins, bony plates and thick scales reminiscent of ancient fossil fish, and flag - like fins along their back that are unique.

Not exact matches

As he prodded the prime minister, Nye, best known as the host of the 1990s PBS show «Bill Nye the Science Guy,» and more recently for the Netflix series «Bill Nye Saves the World,» cited a study by a group called The Solutions Project that concluded Canada could live entirely without fossil fuels if it fully embraced renewable energy sources.

Here's the majors, so plan accordingly for your place in this life or the next: 1) there is not a single fossil to evidence mankind's evolution from some so - called earlier form (see missing link) however we do however have mountains of DNA evidence showing we have common ancestors with primates — so you either believe in a Creator, or Aliens, or actual evolution or a mix of any of the three.

It is time that the negative theological conclusions implicit in the neo-Darwinism I have here called evolutionism — and the shaky status of that theory itself — be brought into the open and separated from what the fossil record actually shows: that in the course of millions of years on earth, life has indeed advanced.

All of the fossil lovers have gone quiet... Mark my word though when we qualify... and we will... they will be back with their drug induced football logic and half baked histories to remind us that we still have a shot at CL qualification 4th place and the league cup under the greatest manager who has ever lived... Sad bunch of so called fans

Toward that end he pursued studies of small (meiofaunal) grazing animals living within microbial mats and documented the earliest appearance of animal and trace (so - called Ediacaran) fossils in late Precambrian sediments in NE Norway.

The animal, called Chengjiangocaris kunmingensis, lived during the Cambrian «explosion», a period of rapid evolutionary development about half a billion years ago when most major animal groups first appear in the fossil record.

The dig, which began with a Facebook call for skinny cavers who could reach the fossil chamber in a South African cave, was live - blogged and was the focus of a N OVA / National Geographic documentary aired on public television in the United States Wednesday night.

For their study, the researchers looked at three sets of fossils (now housed in museums in Denmark, England, and Texas) of widely disparate creatures from different eras: a leatherback turtle that lived about 55 million years ago, a large predator called a mosasaur that lived about 86 million years ago, and an ichthyosaur that swam the seas between 190 million and 196 million years ago.

Called Dinosaurs Under the Big Sky, it will recount through fossil displays the whole history of dinosaurs in Montana, the final chapter of which brings to life the plants and animals of the Hell Creek Formation.

And by tracing the remains of pigments in fossils, called melanosomes, scientists have in recent years begun to breathe new life into the dun - colored relicts, discovering the Technicolor hues in prehistoric birds» wings and the clever shading that veiled ancient mosasaurs from predators.

Aggressive measures to curtail the use of fossil fuels and emissions of so - called short - lived climate pollutants such as soot, methane and HFCs would need to be accompanied by active efforts to extract CO2 from the air and sequester it before it can be emitted.

Some are calling this new epoch the anthropocene and it is all thanks to our increasing the relatively small amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by burning the vast stores of carbon trapped inside of the fossil fuels that power our modern lives.

The well - known Australopithecus afarensis fossil we call Lucy, for example, lived a little over 3 million years ago in Ethiopia's Afar region, roughly 700 miles northeast of Lake Turkana.

The fossils are of a small primate called Djebelemur, which lived around 50 million years ago.

Finds such as the newly discovered Birgeria species and the fossils of other vertebrates now show that so - called apex predators (animals at the very top of the food chain) already lived early after the mass extinction.

The fossil dates from the Lower Devonian period, around 400 million years ago, and consists of spores contained within a forked structure which looks a little like part of the reproductive apparatus of a living liverwort called Riccia.

The ancient mushroom's strong resemblance to a living fungus called Marasmius hints that evolution has conserved the basic form of this mushroom for a very long time indeed and has led Hibbett to consider naming the fossil Archaeomarasmius.

The oldest fossil of that life comes from a remote desert site in Western Australia called North Pole.

Since fossils in general, and dinosaur fossils in particular, are rare and very different from modern animals, it's lucky that humans came wired to spot the unusual, and collect the oddities that resembled ancient life forms long before there was a subject called palaeontology.

Scientists unveiled Tuesday the fossil of a lemurlike creature called «Ida» that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Germany.

Therefore, IMHO, it would be closer to the truth to call WUWT a «skeptic» site that calls into question exactly how much the mean temperature has increased since the advent of the thermometer record in the late 1880's, how much of that is due to human activities and how much to natural cycles not under our control, what dangers rising temperatures may pose to human life and civilization, and what technologically and politically doable actions may be taken to reduce human - caused warming, and our dependence on foreign sources of fossil energy.

All that so people can drive 2 tonne cars called SUV's that tell other people about their status, live in massive houses that costs a lot in fossil fuels to heat, again because of status mainly and take lots of plane flights to strange places for sight seeing tours that are soon forgotten when you return.

But when I talk to students and others about forging a smooth path toward roughly 9 billion people seeking decent lives, and the underlying need for an aggressive and sustained energy quest, I always say don't look to those hallways full of gray suits — the fossils, as activists call them — for the breakthroughs.

As we've learned from what's called «the terrifying math of global warming», we need to leave a huge amount of fossil fuels that have been discovered in the ground instead of burning them into the atmosphere in order to keep the planet from warming so much as to make it inhospitable to human life.

Reflecting on this disquieting moment — tragic for the lost lives and threatened livelihoods — to spell out the need to propel the country past the fossil - fuel rung on the long human climb up what Loren Eiseley called the «heat ladder.»

The report calls for ageing fossil fuel and nuclear power plants to be replaced by renewable generation when they reach the end of their operational lives.

The campaign, called Power Past Impossible, touts the many uses of oil and natural gas and highlights how dependent modern life is on the byproducts of these fossil fuels.

Ignoring real - life constraints (population growth rates, maximum possible CO2 from all fossil fuels) when making an extrapolation is living in an ivory tower bubble and is foolish, no matter what you call the extrapolation.

Pope Francis officially released his encyclical, «Laudato Si («Be Praised»), On the Care of Our Common Home», calling on «every person living on this planet» to urgently address climate change, reduce the use of fossil fuels, and transition to clean...

In the teeth of opposition from the immensely powerful fossil fuels industry and its many allies, the IPCC would issue what was arguably the most important policy advice any body has ever given, calling for nothing less than a wholesale restructuring of the world's economies and ways of living.

Producing electricity from solar cells reduces air pollutants and greenhouse gases by about 90 percent in comparison to using conventional fossil fuel technologies, claims a study called «Emissions from Photovoltaic Life Cycles», to be published this month in «Environmental Science & Technology».

As he prodded the prime minister, Nye, best known as the host of the 1990s PBS show Bill Nye the Science Guy, and more recently for the Netflix series Bill Nye Saves the World, cited a study by a group called The Solutions Project that concluded Canada could live entirely without fossil fuels if it fully embraced renewable energy sources.