Sentences with phrase «eons earlier»

It's a bird... It's a plane... Wait, it's both Mankind has long been fascinated with the idea of soaring through the sky like a bird, though oddly enough, many of the early flying contraptions were so bizarre as to seem plucked from thin air — even though nature had conquered that realm eons earlier.

Suggesting that, eons earlier, all matter could have come from an infinitely small and super-dense point which exploded, yielding the universe we see.

Not exact matches

From the late 1960s through the early»70s, the denizens of this tiny Pacific island were the wealthiest people on the planet per capita, due to the dense and valuable guano deposits left on the island by fish - eating seabirds over a period of eons.

For the early church, Jesus» resurrection was tangible evidence that the New Age had invaded the Old Eon.

Way back when (eons in internet years), in early 2005, I befriended a certain not - so - Angry Chicken, when we began our blogs in the very same week.

Piecing together the planetesimals, the earliest ancestors of the asteroids, hasn't been easy because eons of collisions have broken them apart.

A perfectly preserved amber fossil from Myanmar has been found that provides evidence of the earliest grass specimen ever discovered — about 100 million years old — and even then it was topped by a fungus similar to ergot, which for eons has been intertwined with animals and humans.

This alternate view of Earth's first geologic eon, called the Hadean, has gained substantial new support from the first detailed comparison of zircon crystals that formed more than 4 billion years ago with those formed contemporaneously in Iceland, which has been proposed as a possible geological analog for early Earth.

Supermassive black holes in the cores of galaxies are thought to fatten slowly over eons, so finding such a heavyweight so early in the history of the universe is «really pushing it,» he says.

Professor Graham Shields - Zhou (UCL Earth Sciences), one of the co-authors and Dr Tostevin's PhD supervisor, said: «We honed in on the last 10 million years of the Proterozoic Eon as the interval of Earth's history when today's major animal groups first grew shells and churned up the sediment, and found that oxygen levels were important to the relationship between environmental conditions and the early development of animals.»

According to Winans, eons ago one line of early bacteria began to break down waste products along a pathway leading to the excretion of AI - 2; another line did not.

Many fossils have been discovered, which is strong evidence of an earlier time when the Earth's continents were much different from today, many of them connecting and then disconnecting over eons.

It's not that long ago — certainly not eons — that we saw the first poster for The Croods, DreamWorks Animation's big family comedy hope for early 2013.

Essentially, as I've broken down the Live Action films sections, Midnight Madness is the first «Recent Live Action» film, although the film is so firmly implanted in the early»80s that it might very well seem eons ago to young ones.

There are certainly worse games selling on the digital marketplace for both systems and I Am Alive is eons better than the somewhat similar Amy released early this year.

DIGITAL EDITOR ANDREW STOY: Back when I was a kid (we're talking early»80s here, not the Neolithic era), the few people I knew who had a Mercedes - Benz had owned their car for eons — in a few cases, longer than I'd been alive.

While retirement may seem eons away, it's never too early to start funding a retirement account.

There are certainly worse games selling on the digital marketplace for both systems and I Am Alive is eons better than the somewhat similar Amy released early this year.

Titled «HOWL, eon (I and II),» the vast paintings were installed at SFMOMA earlier this month and will remain on view in the museum's atrium for three years.

[61] Indeed, higher CO2 concentrations are thought to have prevailed throughout most of the Phanerozoic eon, with concentrations four to six times current concentrations during the Mesozoic era, and ten to fifteen times current concentrations during the early Palaeozoic era until the middle of the Devonian period, about 400 Ma.