Sentences with phrase «early relative of»

The ancient dolphin is an early relative of modern dolphins and porpoises.

A newly discovered early relative of Tyrannosaurus rex was a fearsome predator in what's now southern Utah about 80 million years ago, according to a study.

A newly discovered dinosaur, Lythronax, was an early relative of T. rex and had big sharp teeth and binocular vision.

Newly described fossils (including a lower jaw, inset) suggest that Janjucetus, an early relative of modern whales that strain tiny crustaceans from large volumes of seawater, used suction feeding instead to grab indi

Artist's reconstruction of Timurlengia euotica, an early relative of Tyrannosaurus rex whose keen hearing probably made it an effective predator.

WHALE IN TRANSITION The skull of Mystacodon, a 36 - million - year - old whale found in Peru, is an early relative of today's baleen whales.

The jewel was an exquisitely preserved skull of an early relative of giraffes, Samotherium.

Some 125 million years ago, a chicken - size Sinosauropteryx, an early relative of T. rex, scampered through northeastern China.

The original version of The March of Progress, drawn for a popular science book in 1965, lined up all the early relatives of humans known at the time in chronological order.

So it's possible that these early relatives of modern mammals evolved in cooler, upland areas and that the dinosaurs were in the hotter, lowland areas.

They also present evidence for similar differences between the sexes in Australopithecines (early relatives of humans), suggesting that women long ago evolved such scaffolding to compensate for walking upright while supporting their swelling wombs.

Early relatives of dinosaurs called dinosauromorphs (two creatures shown at right) as well as early cousins of mammals (at left) lived in what is now South America about 235 million years ago.

Darwinius and Notharctus, on the other hand, are adapiform primates that are early relatives of living lemurs, the most distant branch of the primate family tree with respect to humans and other anthropoids.

* Correction, 5 May, 3:57 p.m.: An earlier version of this story stated that mosasaurs were living 130 million years ago at the time of the earliest relatives of modern birds.

Early relatives of the sauropods, the Late Triassic plateosaurs or prosauropods, may have occasionally stood on their hind legs.

Like lampreys, they are considered to be «living fossils» similar to the early relatives of vertebrates that lived hundreds of millions of years ago.

Not exact matches

Early on, these scarce assets are typically available at lower relative costs because the sellers / leasers don't initially appreciate future demand or the scarcity of their offerings.

Are you worried about the future of new drug creation, given the relative lack of early - stage pharma investing?

But that all changed earlier this month when Florida public health officials reported a handful of cases originating from mosquito bites in the relative small, one - square - mile neighborhood of Wynwood just north of downtown Miami.

Macau authorities are tracking down almost HK$ 48 million worth of cash chips stolen from Wynn casino earlier this week, following the arrest of a debt - ridden croupier and his elderly relative in connection with the crime.

According to an ethics disclosure made public Friday, Ivanka Trump received at least $ 12.6 million since early 2016, either directly or through her trust (which is held by relatives of her husband, White House senior advisor Jared Kushner).

The form of investment is dependent on the company's relative maturity with seed stage investments typically structured as convertible notes while early stage companies issue preferred equity in exchange for investor funds.

Although the banking sector has been lacking relative strength to the S&P 500, $ KBE is staging a bit of a comeback after living below its 10 - week MA from late August to early October.

The bill's passage also potentially complicates Treasury issuance relative to the debt ceiling, as lower tax receipts under the new tax plan could cause Treasury to run out of extraordinary measures earlier than originally thought.

For me the main information coming out of CPI inflation data is that consumer demand relative to total production continues to be too weak to drive up prices, something confirmed earlier this week by the August trade numbers, which failed to suggest strong growth in domestic demand.

Except for a period in the early 1960s, when Robert Triffin explored what became known as the Triffin Dilemma, in which foreign hoarding of U.S. dollars was linked to persistent U.S. trade deficits, the relationship between the capital and current accounts seems since then to have mystified most economists, including those specializing in trade, even as U.S. trade deficits and foreign capital inflows soared, and as the growth in international capital flows, once consisting largely of trade finance, exploded relative to trade flows and relegated trade finance to minor importance.

The price of crude at Houston earlier this week tumbled to a record discount of more than $ 4 / bbl relative to Brent, the international benchmark.

Continuing into the early afternoon, the panel moved through several tangential topics, all of which seemed to be laying a foundational understanding for how central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) might emerge relative to other possibilities, including government - issued cryptocurrencies, e-money, and digital fiat currency (DFC).

Note that after hitting a fresh high in early May of 2006, the performance of our stocks - relative to the S&P 500 - trailed off modestly.

But if you again look at the performance graphs I referenced earlier, you'll see that all of our Funds have endured periods, sometimes for several years, when they have either lost money or lost ground relative to their benchmarks.

It is only popular because it boosts some prices relative to other prices, thus temporarily benefiting some parts of the economy at the expense of other parts, and because the early users of the new money get to do the bulk of their spending / investing before prices rise.

There were several possible catalysts suggested for this spike in concerns about a favorable outcome of the debt ceiling negotiation, which has to be concluded ahead of the Treasury's X Date, now expected as early as October 1: some cited Steven Mnuchin's interview on CNBC, in which the Treasury Secretary said that the additional spending needed to help Texas recover from Hurricane Harvey may reduce the amount of time Congress has to increase the federal debt limit; another possibility was month - end liquidity needs and relative positioning across the curve.

This change in relative wages and the relatively modest adjustment in overall wages have been helped by the combination of well - anchored inflation expectations and a more flexible labour market, particularly in comparison to earlier terms of trade booms.

The following monthly chart shows that relative to a broad basket of commodities *, gold commenced a very long - term bull market (47 years and counting) in the early - 1970s.

There has been considerably less adjustment of interest rates in the current episode, however, relative to earlier commodity price booms; for example, the energy boom in the late 1970s / early 1980s, which was smaller than the current resource boom.

Paul sought to establish a new fundraising paradigm — one that rewarded risk - tolerant investors willing to make a wager before knowing who else they would be investing alongside — by offering different terms to different investors and increasing the relative attractiveness of investing early.

Correlations, which remained elevated throughout the fall, with all of the majors hitting new lows in a concerted fashion, are now breaking down slightly and some coins are showing early signs of relative strength.

Earlier in the day, three other twentysomethings were reportedly beheaded after ISIS members heard rumors that one of their relatives had met with a Kurdish leader.

just like a velociraptor was an early form of a bird, we know this by looking at its dna (which we now have), they had feathers and their closest genetic relative alive today is an ostrich.

Early cosmologies also pictured the cosmos relative to the human observer, as we continue to do when we speak of sending a rocket «upward» into space or refer to Australians as living «down under.»

Some of my earliest memories are of gatherings at my grandparents small apartment in Milwaukee where my relatives would crowd around the dining - room table and talk passionately about Israel.

Our story of Judah and his daughter - in - law Tamar, as also in fact the book of Ruth, indicates that in early Israel the levirate obligation might be extended to any near male relative.9 We note finally that this is a good story, not, obviously, in the sense that it is morally elevating (it candidly reflects the morality of the age), but in the remarkably graphic portrayal of character, especially Tamar, the deft integration of plot, and the skillful employment of suspense.

Coming out means remembering my other relatives and early friends, in the hope that they can trust, and celebrate, the parts we have played in the shaping of one another's values.

A more realistic portrayal of the future of Humanity 4.5 would star the relative few who are going to use the enormous wealth accumulated by the globalist bourgeois empire to fund their own Promethean futures, self - cast in the role of «early adopters» whose job is to keep the cutting edge of progress sharp.

On the other hand, there is in the history of science more continuity than one would expect from Feyerabend or from Kuhn's earlier work, in which truth is entirely relative to a succession of self - contained language systems dominated by diverse paradigms.

As suggested earlier, many of these changes occur in the relative near term and thus may have serious repercussions on religious and other institutions.

The post was actually about a relative newcomer to the scripture tweeting game: Chris Juby of the UK, who started his project (@biblesummary) earlier this month.

I suggest that we have to reconsider the relative importance we give to the earlier works of Whitehead (the so called pre-systematic works), to the more technical «trilogy» (SR, RM, PR) and to the post-systematic works (such as AI and MT).

To some extent, this attitude of denial has come about because of changes in our society in this century: the marked decrease in the number of deaths at an early age; the development of specialized professions for the care of the dying and the dead; the emergence of geographical mobility, with the consequence that most of us live at some distance from aging and dying relatives, including parents; the growth of separate communities for the aging, not only nursing homes but retirement communities.

In sharp contrast to earlier tribal and feudal patterns, the bourgeois family made possible the freedom of a man and woman to choose each other, to live with their children in relative independence from wider kinship groups, and to form a bond in which obligation is reinforced by affection.