Sentences with phrase «fall of the amphibians»

Several species of frogs, salamanders, toads and other amphibians around the world have gone extinct or are disappearing («Decline and fall of the amphibians», New Scientist, 27 June 1992).

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The croak of thousands of invisible amphibians falls suddenly silent as the vets pass by on the way to Puntung's enclosure.

So basically, because The Shape of Water is about a mute woman who falls in love with an amphibian - based lifeform that's part merman, part Creature from the Black Lagoon.

I guess the difference with The Shape of Water is that this is a film in which a mute janitor falls for and, subsequently, engages in inter-species fornication with a mysterious, humanoid amphibian creature.

Set in the 1960s Cold War era, «The Shape of Water» stars Sally Hawkins as a mute woman who falls in love with a mysterious amphibian man locked up at the secret government lab where she works as a janitor.

Bears, rhinoceroses, a variety of reptiles and amphibians and other endangered animals considered delicacies or thought to have medicinal properties routinely fall victim to the black market.