Sentences with phrase «dwelling species»

Yes, it is 2011, soon to be 2012, and the Dinosaurs, the most successful species to ever populate the earth (for approximately five hundred million years) were not extinguished due to their inability to evolve and grow with natural changing conditions, but were simply eliminated by a one - in - a-million extra-terrestrial event over a short period of time (one to three years), as were all forms of sun reliant life with the exception of a few ocean dwelling species, subsurface ground dwelling worms, plant life like lichens and other mindless species able to lie dormant for extended periods of time, as well as nocturnal, ground dwelling little rodents that ate roots, dead or alive, (from which we so - called superior life forms evolved).

Recently extinct animals include the Hawaiian Crow, Black Soft - Shell Turtle, Abingdon Island Tortoise, Red - tailed Shark, Sahara Oryx, Black - footed Ferret, Mongolian Wild Horse, and the Saudi Gazelle, as well as numerous amphibian, plant, and water dwelling species.

7 June, 2017 — Marine reserves can give protection against the impacts of climate change to both sea life and land - dwelling species, including humans.

The discussions took on additional urgency when the northern long - eared bat, a cave - dwelling species that doesn't migrate but is still sometimes found dead at wind energy sites, was listed as «threatened» by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last year.

At the same time, several migratory tree - dwelling species are being killed in unprecedented numbers by wind turbines.

We know that many of the fish and some of the crabs seem to be able to swim or scuttle away from the low - oxygen waters, and in some cases they reappear once the levels of oxygen return to normal, but we do not know the long - term consequences of an annual die - off of the habitat - forming, bottom - dwelling species, many of which live to be decades old.

Cats» relatively weak thirst drive is attributed to their evolution from a desert - dwelling species.

When providing water, remember that a desert species might only drink a little bit each day (they are very good at conserving their body water supply); tree dwelling species such as Chameleons and Anoles may only drink the dew drops from the leaves.

In a study of Peruvian ants, Sanders found that some ground - dwelling species seemed to lack an intestinal microbiome entirely.

Previous research has shown that stream - dwelling species in the southern Appalachian region are particularly vulnerable to climate change and that many coldwater species are already shifting their ranges in response to warming temperatures.

Thus, flatlandspecies will have to travel much farther than mountain - dwelling species to maintain their present - day temperature conditions — and with even less likelihood that the rest of their familiar biome will follow.

Heating of 1 degree Celsius would have a smaller impact on metabolism for a cold - blooded, land - dwelling species that lives in the Arctic than on one that lives in the tropics, his study shows.

Year after year, Mauritanian populations of bottom - dwelling species such as octopus, grouper and sea bream have remained stubbornly low — a sign of overfishing by bottom - scraping trawlers, he says.

JCU's Heather Neilly was part of a team that looked at the effect of cattle on ground - dwelling lizards and snakes — as opposed to tree - dwelling species.

Cowbirds cause more trouble for forest - dwelling species than those in fields.

Cardelùs suspects that nitrogen and phosphorus pollution may upset the interactions between canopy - dwelling species.

Not exact matches

It was probably not until the axial age, when the Israelites began to experience mystery more explicitly in the mode of future and promise, that humans began first to realize that we do not dwell in nature with the same instinctive ease that other species do.

Throughout most of the ages in which our species has dwelt on this earth, its various tribal units have had no sense of historical time.

Research carried out on tomato plots on the effects of weed control on surface - dwelling arthropod species found the abundance of species is clearly influenced by weed biomass.

The beam and chains disturb or kill many bottom - dwelling organisms, the nets catch unwanted species, and all the tugging requires a lot of diesel.

The fungal infection, which first emerged six years ago, was reported May 29 in a seventh species of North American bats — the largely cave - dwelling grays (Myotis grisecens).

Traveling back almost eight million years to our earliest primate relatives, Evolution: The Human Story charts the development of our species from tree - dwelling primates to modern humans.

Boxfish species dwell in reefs and constantly face turbulence.

Since 1990, six new species have turned up, most of them, like C. saterei, in the Amazon, where they dwell in the lower to middle levels of forest trees.

The military imported many other species as well, including the common black rat, Rattus rattus, a large tree - dwelling rodent whose blood fed many of the mosquitoes.

City living is seldom lauded by environmentalists, but it may be our most environmentally friendly trait as a species, because urban dwelling is vastly more efficient than living in the countryside.

Deep - sea dwelling Mitsukurina owstoni, the goblin shark, is the oldest living species among lamniform sharks, which go back about 125 million years and today include great whites, threshers and makos.

For smaller species, such as water - dwelling riffle beetles (Optioservus fastiditus, also pictured), the miniature ruler helps measure the bug itself, which comes in at a whopping 2 millimeters long.

John Kappelman studied Lucy's bones in new high - resolution CT scans and found injuries consistent with a great fall, suggesting that Lucy's species was a tree - dwelling one.

Two years ago, Alexander Weigand described the cave - dwelling, Thorn Snail relative of these Spanish species from a plunging 950m - deep chasm in the Velebit Mts.

Scientists discovered a new species of a peculiar cave - dwelling snail in one of the 20 deepest cave systems in the world, Lukina Jama - Trojama in Croatia.

A team at British Antarctic Survey (BAS) examined the potential distribution of over 900 species of shelf - dwelling marine invertebrates under a warming scenario produced by computer models.

Now, Graham and colleagues are waiting to see whether the species becomes a permanent resident, perhaps encouraged by declining coastal water quality and a growing thicket of offshore oil drilling platforms, which may provide the perfect hard substrate for a bottom - dwelling life stage.

These include Western Australia's first members of the marine mite family, its first species of a wormlike mollusk called aplacophoran, and an unusual species of benthic ctenophore, a bottom - dwelling comb jelly.

All known species from the cave - dwelling genus Zospeum possess a limited ability to move.

A throng of reef - dwelling organisms live on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico's continental shelf some 200 kilometers offshore, from corals in the shallower regions to sponges, sea fans and other soft corals, and numerous fish species in the deep.

In their research paper, «Comparison of the White - Nose Syndrome agent Pseudogymnoascus destructans to cave - dwelling relatives suggests reduced saprotrophic enzyme activity,» published Jan. 22, 2014, by the PLOS ONE, Barton and UA postdoctoral fellow Hannah Reynolds compare two closely related fungi species and reveal common threads, including the discovery that the related fungi share the same nutritional needs.

Tim Flannery of the Australian Museum in Sydney, who led last month's expedition to Irian Jaya, the Indonesian part of the island of New Guinea, thinks the bondegezou is a tenth species of tree kangaroo because it has broad, flat feet suited to tree climbing, legs of equal length and a skull that more closely resembles those of the Dendrolagus species than ground - dwelling kangaroos.

Focusing on two stickleback species — one that dwells in the grassy shallows of the lake bottom and another that inhabits open water — the researchers found that different parts of the fish skeleton, even those that lie close to one another, are controlled by different chromosome regions.

Insect midgut - dwelling bacteria generate reactive oxygen species that inhibit malaria parasite development.

Every now and then we stumble upon a new species of lemur in an obscure jungle or an exotic bacterium in a deep - sea vent, but at this point we are unlikely to discover something truly astonishing, like dinosaurs dwelling in a secluded cavern.

It does, however, appear to have been our companion since we first took to dwelling in caves: At least 12 species of blood - sucking Cimex bugs are parasites of bats, and many others feed on cave - nesting birds.

It quickly developed a taste for ground - dwelling native species like bilbies, wallabies and numbats, leading to declines in their numbers.

A team of researchers from the United Kingdom reports this week in Nature Plants that it has discovered a species of shade - dwelling begonia called Begonia pavonina that arranges light - absorbing components in its leaves to boost their light absorption.

A team of researchers from the United Kingdom reports today in Nature Plants that it has discovered a species of shade - dwelling begonia called Begonia pavonina (above) that arranges light absorbing components in its leaves to boost their light absorption.

The study also found that lake trout and steelhead may fare better because these two species can switch from eating alewife, which are in decline, to bottom - dwelling round goby, another newly established invasive prey fish that feeds on quagga mussels.

Crompton thinks flexible feet may have been with us since the dawn of our species, as a relic of our tree - dwelling days.

That was until researchers provided genetic evidence that the shy, forest - dwelling type was a distinct species, Loxodonta cyclotis (ScienceNOW, 23 August 2001).

But until now, little was known about where most of these 18 species dwell in these waters, what depths they prefer, and their population numbers.

This material, used for capturing prey, rappelling from high places, and building egg cases and dwellings, is itself fantastically diverse, its makeup varying from species to species.