Sentences with phrase «early land»

Based on fossil records, scientists have long studied how early land animals may have gotten around.

Timescale of early land plant evolution: controlling for competing topologies and dating strategies on divergence time estimates.

To answer this question, a team of Danish researchers looked at one of the closest living relatives of early land animals, the African lungfish (Protopterus annectens).

In early land surveys in 1883, the Twin Towns of Coolangatta and Tweed Heads were laid out on each side of the border.

It was available as a three - door or five - door model and had full all - wheel drive, as opposed to earlier Land Rovers which featured switchable all - wheel drive.

Limited to only 150 units built by the company's heritage division, Land Rover Classic, the Defender Works V8 celebrates the iconic SUV's 70th anniversary and pays homage to early Land Rover models that were fitted with V8s.

I presented Jed Kaplan's latest work on early land use modeling and regional land change reconstructions.

Mangroves apparently evolved from earlier land plants which developed a tolerance to salt but did not come to depend on it.

The museum also stages recreations of original works from early land art exhibitions, includingthe British artist Richard Long's A Line the Same Length as a Straight Walk from the Bottom to the Top of Silbury Hill (1970/2012)-- a large white clay spiral drawn on the gallery floor that corresponds to the number of steps Long took to reach the top of the largest prehistoric man - made hill in England.

As of this week the original Motorola Moto X has been cleared for early landing with a «soak test» for the software on AT&T.

The Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis (108) posits that mid-Holocene increases in CO2 and CH4 resulted from early land clearing and other agricultural practices and that these unprecedented interglacial trends in atmospheric composition set global climate on a trajectory toward warmer conditions long before human use of fossil fuels (108, 109).

He signed with Michigan, which a few years earlier landed a Bay Area quarterback from Palo Alto named Jim Harbaugh.

Evolution of alluvial mudrock forced by early land plants.

The mudskipper's feeding system offers an explanation for how early land animals adapted to their new environment

Early land managers misstepped by poisoning coyotes.

Early landing craft showed the surface of Mars to be barren.But a prime objective of future planetary landing missions is to drilldownward as fast and far as possible.

«Rainforest collapse 307 million years ago impacted the evolution of early land vertebrates.»

Early land life looked something like the plants coating this lava field in Iceland.

The exhibition opens with Jean Tinguely's fantastic early Land Art piece Study for the End of the World no. 2 from 1962.

Regardless of whether early land use significantly affected global climate, understanding the global role of land use in determining the onset and magnitude of anthropogenic climate change is critical for gauging the climatic impact of current and future modifications of the terrestrial biosphere, including efforts to offset fossil fuel emissions by reducing deforestation (114).

It was also notable for an upgraded interior relative to earlier Land Rovers and for having a good amount of head and leg room, although cargo space was limited and boarding the vehicle could be awkward.

Early land plants had already started leaking oxygen into the atmosphere, creating soils and providing food and shelter for animals, and the evolution of trees upped the pace of change.

Early land animals likely didn't have precise control over their limbs, and the tail may have compensated for that limitation, helping the animals ascend sandy slopes.

Feng He presented climate simulations backing up the claim that early land use changed climate millennia ago (He et al 2014).

So this is a timely book, and a fitting memorial to Everett C. Olson, one of the American coauthors, who contributed so much to the study of early land - going vertebrates.

The appearance of the earliest land plants coincided with a rise in mud rock starting around 458 million years ago.

New research suggests these early land plants helped shape Earth's surface by creating clay - rich river deposits.

Now paleontologist Neil Shubin — discoverer of the «fishapod» Tiktaalik, whose fins with wrists and elbows illustrate an evolutionary transition between ancient fish and early land animals — leads a lively jaunt through the human body to get us in touch with our fishy (not to mention buggy, wormy, and yeasty) extended family.

Another mystery — when oxygen made its debut as a leading gas in Earth's life support system — was pushed back from 1.2 billion years ago, the time when the earliest land - based life appears in the fossil record.

One reason for favouring this marine model is that fossil evidence of early land - based microbial life has been lacking.

Stomach muscles have evolved at least twice — once in the earliest land animals, and once in a ferocious armour - plated fish

THE fossilised reproductive parts of an ancient liverwort have provided the first convincing evidence that these cousins of the mosses were the earliest land plants.

In a second paper, published online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the same scientists looked at salamanders that have an ear configuration like those found in some of the early land animal fossils, thus allowing them to shed light on how the first four - legged animals may have heard.

This research demonstrates that early land animals «with no obvious adaptations for hearing nonetheless could pick up sound waves aided by an air bladder [such as a lung],» says Jennifer Clack, a paleontologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the work.

Plant scientists once considered liverwort the most primitive existing plant because it lacks roots and pores for gas and water exchange, but a few recent studies had suggested that liverwortlike plants were not the earliest land plants.

These thicker - rooted plants employ what the authors call a «conservative» strategy — similar to that of Earth's earliest land plants — that relies on the soil fungi prevalent in wet, warm tropical and subtropical soils to provide nutrients.

One difficulty in the study is that the relationships between the earliest land plants are not known.

Dr Sebastian Schornack, who led the research team, says the study indicates that early land plants were already genetically equipped to respond to microbial infections: «This discovery reveals that certain response mechanisms were already in place very early on in plant evolution.»

«We used different assumptions on the relationships between land plants and found this did not impact the age of the earliest land plants,» the authors said.

Watch for prices to keep increasing on all early Land Rovers; they are bringing the Range Rovers along with them as well.

«Part of the beauty of any old car is its simplicity, and you can't get much simpler than the early Land Rover Series.»

Here's what you get with the early Land Cruiser models.

The new Reborn Tour gives visitors of the brand's bespoke workshop at Solihull the opportunity to experience the restoration of an early Land Rover.

Some, like the early Land Rovers, were adapted to military use from civilian specifications.

The flight took off on time (unlike the next Lufthansa flight I took) and the pilot even predicted an early landing in Munich.

With his abstract imagery, Craven references American primitivism and historical plots with a nod to early land - based philosophies, raw materials, and origins

But the real highlight for me was the session I hosted together together with Kees Klein Goldewijk and Jack Williams: «Dating the Anthropocene: Early Land Use and Earth System Change, which was sponsored by IGBP and the Past Global Changes project (PAGES).

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