Sentences with phrase «discovered as biologists»

He anticipates that more species could be discovered as biologists working in South America begin to make new collections in unstudied areas.

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A few years ago, biologists discovered that some produce hair - like filaments that act as wires, ferrying electrons back and forth between the cells and their wider environment.

Biologists have recently discovered that a wallaby's perception of colour is more similar to a dog than a quokka, sparking questions as to why marsupial colour vision has evolved so selectively.

After 40 years of debate, evolutionary biologists have used 10,000 twins and siblings in an attempt to discover whether it arose to give women a reproductive boost, or simply as a by - product of evolution of the male orgasm.

The mystery of this bizarre flower only deepened over the decades that followed, as a succession of biologists was drawn to it but unable to classify it, or the dozen or so other species of the family Rafflesiaceae they discovered in the forests of Southeast Asia, all lurid and stinking of decay.

Trained as both a physician and a molecular biologist, she has discovered the genetic sources for many rare diseases, such as Marfan syndrome, a connective - tissue disorder.

Evolutionary biologists are always struggling to discover what evolution has long ago figured out — such as why, or if, ladies like a massive sperm - depositing organ, and gentlemen prefer paired fat deposits on the female form.

In the marsh by the woodland, the biologists discovered that the successful males had more than twice as many mates as those in the agricultural marsh.

When biologists discovered that other desert mammals, such as camels, also conserve water in this way, they concluded that maxilloturbinals had evolved specifically as an adaptation to life in dry places.

In a limestone cave at the bottom of a lake 113 metres below the surface of Croatia, biologists have discovered an amphibious salamander known as an olm — a creature once believed to be a baby dragon.

This newly discovered marine pillbug (or isopod, as it is known to biologists) is directly related to the terrestrial pillbugs found in backyards.

Biologists were surprised to discover that the ecosystems found on the ocean floor along these mid-ocean ridges, consisting of complex organisms like tube worms, clams, and crabs, were dependent for their food on thermophilic chemosynthetic bacteria, which produced organic compounds using the oxidation of inorganic molecules as an energy source, instead of sunlight.

Our heroine (Portman, if she signs) and guide for the latest attempt to discover the truth behind the place is a biologist looking for answers to her husband's disappearance as part of an earlier expedition.

The film follows an expedition into a mysterious zone called Area X. Lena (Portman), a biologist and former soldier, joins a mission to uncover what happened to her husband (Isaac) inside the zone — a sinister and mysterious phenomenon that is expanding across the American coastline, known as The Shimmer Once inside, the expedition discovers a world of mutated landscape and creatures, as dangerous as it is beautiful, that threatens both their lives and their sanity.

Logline: Seeking answers to her husband's tragic disappearance, a biologist journeys into an area sealed off by the government for the last 30 years as an environmental disaster zone with the help of a secret agency known as the Southern Reach has sent many expeditions over the years to discover the truth about «Area X».

As we travel deeper into this bizarre region, we learn more about the biologist and discover that previous expeditions to Area X all ended in the weird deaths of their members.

Even when radio tagged, pythons can be incredibly hard to spot, as I discovered when I was out in the Everglades with federal biologists in 2007 to do reporting for «A Movable Beast,» my 2007 feature on the species» adventures in Florida.

The secret to discovering them lies in asking better questions, a process Janine Benyus relishes as part of her «biologist at the design table» training sessions.

Obviously, such unprecedented findings are of note to biologists in that they help to shed light on the role birds play in spreading plant - life, but it's hard not to interpret the Bowerbird's newly discovered courtship gesture as a shot across the bow to aspiring romantics of the human variety.