Sentences with phrase «diminutive creatures»

More than 120 million years ago, while giant dinosaurs crashed through the forests in fearsome combat, a quieter drama unfolded in the Cretaceous underbrush: some lineage of hairy, diminutive creatures stopped laying eggs and gave birth to live young.

It must have been the vibrant red flash of exposed underbelly that first caught my eye, but it was the bird's placement that focused my attention, a diminutive creature adrift in a mauve fog.

Not exact matches

Instead, the researchers point to an advantage of small size: Among today's creatures, diminutive species tend to grow and reproduce faster, so that they can produce a new generation before they are killed by predators.

H. lunulata flashes its bright blue warning rings; image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Jens Petersen The diminutive blue - ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena lunulata) looks like a sweet, possibly even fantastical creature.

The freakishly cute creatures are already taking over every corner of the Internet, and depending on your opinion of the diminutive animal, this is either a wonderful or a horrific thing.

At King's Landing, poor Tyrion Lannister (the series» diminutive superstar, Peter Dinklage, pictured below with Daniel Portman and Jerome Flynn) is suffering the greatest ingratitude, having had the credit for saving the capital taken from him by his own father (Charles Dance), who now adds insult to injury by dismissing his youngest son as «an ill - made, spiteful little creature».

The Smurfs (PG for action and mild rude humor) 3 - D animated / live action adventure featuring the arrival of an army of diminutive blue creatures in New York's Central Park after they are chased through a portal from medieval times to the present by an evil wizard (Hank Azaria).

And yes, Fenix is a diminutive blue creature that is not unlike Sega's depiction of a hedgehog.

When the diminutive Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow, A Civil Action, Rugrats in Paris) begins driving out all the fairy creatures from his realm, they decide to crash in Shrek's swamp.

This often leads to focussing on smaller targets, as they uncover a whole new world of amazing yet diminutive sea creatures.