Sentences with phrase «extinct species»

Would you hire an extinct species?

Apple's anti - Android / anti-Samsung patents are an endangered species in every jurisdiction in which they get challenged (and may soon be an extinct species in Europe), except for the Northern District of California, where Judge Lucy Koh has so far acted as if she was the World Wildlife Fund for Apple patents.

These numbers of extinct species are certainly underestimates, because the majority of species have not been described or assessed, and proving that a species is extinct can take years or decades.

Great examples include children, freed from the task of collecting water and firewood, able to attend school and benefit from education; farmers able to support their families with improved yields due to better land management and sustainable farming practices; or the reintroduction of a locally - extinct species due to ecosystem improvement and education of local communities.

Ben Novak, a young scientist at The Long Now Foundation, is leading the work to revive and restore the most iconic extinct species in the US, the passenger pigeon.

This vision, as outlined in An Ecomodernist Manifesto, is one of urbanization; intensified food production to increase yields and leave more room for nature; the expanded use of nuclear energy, which has zero emissions and the smallest land footprint of any energy source; greater development of GMOs to reduce chemical use and increase yields; animal - free meat; and «rewilding» former farm and pasture lands with wolves, buffalo, mountain lions, and even formerly extinct species.

It is a vision of: urbanization, as people in cities have more opportunities and use resources more efficiently; intensified food production to increase yields and leave more room for nature; the expanded use of nuclear energy, which has zero emissions and the smallest land footprint of any energy source; greater development of GMOs to reduce chemical use and increase yields; animal - free meat; «re-wilding» former farm and pasture lands with wolves, buffalo, mountain lions, and even formerly extinct species — all the while supporting universal human dignity.

because when fossil fuels are burned, the fossil fuels are running out more and more and so scientists are trying to figure out a way for fossil fuels to become more of a renewable resourse then a nonrenewable resource so that way we have more of a likely cause that we will have a future use of all the fossil fuel that are about to run out just like an extinct species.

In the end, climate science will probably be much closer to conservation efforts which have brought back nearly extinct species or preserved wetlands, saved the ozone and coral reefs, and quenched acid rain.

At the heart of Michael Crichton's most famous novel, Jurassic Park, is the myriad of technological and ethical questions regarding the idea of bringing extinct species back to life.

There are many wrinkles to this new technology — one is using it to bring back extinct species.

In this PBS article called, «Should Scientists Bring Extinct Species Back from Oblivion?»

Where are the extinct species that the Nature so confidently talks about?

If a small temperature rise will drive thousands of species extinct... where are the extinct species from the last three centuries of temperature rise?

Some scientists are hopeful that they will be able to bring extinct species back from the grave.

That monument Maya Lin is building for extinct species (thank you Laurie D. for the link) appears to have no shortage of material for her tribute.

Lin envisions it as a multisite chronicle, including photography and video, at places around the world and with a commemorative list of names — this time the names of extinct species.]

This is real for the will extinct species and for the whole human being.

Another overpopulation extinct species example.

Karl Schroeder: If there is any life on Earth in 100 years, I foresee either an ecological catastrophe, with the majority of species extinct, the oceans stagnant, the arctic and Antarctic desolate and lifeless, and billions of people living in complete ignorance of how things could be, in massive urban centres; or, a world in which climate change was solved early and completely through innovations in power generation and carbon sequestration, where agriculture has gone to vertical farming and North America has largely been rewilded back to forest and open prairie, and where extinct species are regularly recreated by genetic engineering and reintroduced.

Spiralling stone walls will be carved with images of extinct species - with space reserved for future extinctions - at this observatory and education centre designed by Adjaye Associates for the Isle of Portland, England.

As he spoke, the more superficial trappings of the week dropped away to reveal the soul of an art community that had created ACT UP — a movement, Andrea Rosen observed, almost unthinkable in the complacent art world we have today, where artist - citizens are a nearly extinct species.

The installation arises in the context of a series of spiritistic séances in which the artist connects with the souls of extinct species of bird.

At Wave Hill, Kim will construct a ten minute mixed media video titled, «Zoonomia», which illustrates eccentric landscape elements with previously inhabited extinct species set in the greenhouse.

Endangered and extinct species move through visual space in what appear to be varying degrees of construction - the animals» wooden substructures are left exposed to the viewer.

In their first show with the gallery since 2009, artist duo Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla present a show focused on three works that represent the breadth of their collaborative multimedia practice and explore existential themes — a sculptural installation made from acrylic lecterns, dinosaur bones, and the remains of extinct species; a performance in which three vocalists whistle at a four - billion - year - old rock; and a sound work based on recordings of breath.

From the oldest tree in the world to some of the youngest and near - extinct species, the tree samples contain within them stories of the planet's history and evolution through time.»

With dragons thought to be an extinct species, and you just happening to find a dragon egg next to your village, a grand adventure begins.

Hunting dinosaurs seems kind of mean as they're an extinct species but that was one of the core components of the Turok series.

Ty flies to an island off the coast of Belize, Ambergris Caye, and he meet's a couple devoted to saving the nearly extinct species of the American Crocodile.

Roman - Era remains of a gray whale, now an extinct species in the North Atlantic, have been found here.

With little more than a healthy sexual appetite and some good luck, Diego the tortoise may have saved his near - extinct species in the Galapagos Islands... Read More

Dogs are resource guarding creatures by design; if they had shared everything before domestication, they would be an extinct species.

Just a small side note... after some reading / research on the Tamaskan, it appears it may have actually been breed to mimic the appearance of the actual dire wolf (not Game of Thrones... the actual extinct species).

When the film debuted, the science wasn't advanced enough to bring back extinct species.

At the heart of Michael Crichton's most famous novel, Jurassic Park, is the myriad of technological and ethical questions regarding the idea of bringing extinct species back to life.

But today it might well be, and researchers» growing efforts to recreate extinct species — in labs from California to Australia — have been making headlines.»

Do you think it would be ethical to reintroduce extinct species like the dodo and the Neanderthal in our world?

In a pure sf novel, you might get a lot of technical discussions of how the scientists managed to bring the dinosaurs back, along with some philosophical questions about the ethics of reviving extinct species.

36] A stage may come when popular or popularized or paid media sponsored lies will become extinct species for the good of everyone.

Starring opposite Jessica Chastain, he plays real life Nazi Lutz Heck who was obsessed with breeding animals to revive extinct species.

But we might be able to resurrect other extinct species.

But they've long since forgotten how to play and have come to assume that the little hexagonally patterned balls in their sacred cave paintings were just poorly drawn rabbits or possibly an extinct species of circle.

If the prospect of seeing Dafoe set traps and lures in an attempt to capture a supposedly extinct species is enough to attract you, then by all means give The Hunter a go.

Some women think they don't exist anymore like an extinct species of mammal.

A new technology for engineering genomes called CRISPR has implications for human aging as well as the resurrection of certain extinct species, according to Harvard Medical School scientist and engineer George M. Church, who briefed science writers Oct. 19 during CASW's New Horizons in Science, part of the ScienceWriters2014 conference in Columbus, Ohio.

That suggests Neandertals, an extinct species closely related to humans, used tar well before our own species did.

Reviving and restoring woolly mammoths — and their climate - stabilizing mammoth steppe — is the most spectacular wildlife project that Ryan Phelan and I have taken on for our California nonprofit called Revive & Restore, and thanks to George Church's marvelous team, it is the furthest along in terms of actually editing genes from an extinct species into the genome of a living relative.

In addition to the New Genomics for Conservation Workshop, Ryan has convened four major events and meetings for Revive & Restore to promote its mission to enhance biodiversity through the genetic rescue of endangered and extinct species, including TEDxDeExtinction.

Other extinct species are leading candidates for revival.