Sentences with phrase «for terrestrial living»

On the far side of the gap, named after Alfred Romer, the Harvard University researcher who first noticed it, tetrapods are rare and ill - adapted for terrestrial living.

Perhaps the most notable aspect of Hörst's experiment is what she left out: liquid water, which is crucial for terrestrial life but absent from most of the cosmos, including Titan.

These bacteria are believed to have produced the oxygen that paved the way for terrestrial life to evolve.

As air - breathing reptiles covered with impermeable skin, sea turtles are one of the few marine species that are suited for terrestrial life.

CO2 is the food supply for terrestrial life, including humans, and it is benign in atmospheric concentrations, so so far no.

Not exact matches

Homo sapiens has been living in our terrestrial sector of the cosmos for less than a million years.

He had watched the sacred New Year procession; he had seen, for the pious but benighted Babylonian, a profound mystery taking place under the eyes of the beholder as Marduk and Nabu went out in solemn pilgrimage to the Akitu house, there to settle the fates of the incoming year; he had witnessed the annual festival in which Marduk triumphed over all his foes, cosmic and terrestrial, and himself died that life might once more return to the world.

While it is evident to science that there is a functional «teleonomy» or machine - like purposiveness in individual organisms (for example, the fish's eye is constructed so as to enable it to see under water, the heart toward pumping blood, the human brain toward problem - solving, etc.), still there is no hard evidence that life itself, terrestrial evolution or the universe as a whole has any overarching meaning.

And that suggests that the Dry Valleys may offer an entirely new terrestrial analog to help in the hunt for life on Mars, Mikucki adds.

All that extra mass creates internal pressures far exceeding terrestrial squeezing, with implications for three life - critical planetary properties: the maintenance of oceans, climatic «thermostats» and magnetic fields.

«Scientists discover first super salty subglacial lakes in Canadian Arctic: Super salty water beneath ice could serve as a terrestrial analogue for a habitat for life on other planets.»

But, for land in particular, our impacts on the planet's terrestrial surface are now so extensive and transformative that they threaten the capacity of varied ecosystems to self - regulate and maintain the living biosphere overall.

The resulting models of the terrestrial heat production will be considerably different from those for chondritic heat production because of the longer half - life of U238 and Th238 compared with K40

This particular example is the oldest known example of oxidative weathering from a terrestrial environment, occurring about 600 million years before the Great Oxidation Event that laid the foundations for the evolution of complex life.»

Although perchlorate is nasty enough that it's recommended not to exceed 25 parts per billion in U.S. drinking water, it's not a big deal for most terrestrial life, Phoenix scientists said.

The Red Planet has never been a tropical paradise, but after investigating how a canyon in south - central Idaho formed, a group of terrestrial geologists is now questioning whether early Mars had even the minimal conditions for life.

The Antarctic Treaty has provided a model for conservation of the terrestrial environment, but biologists agree that the marine environment has suffered under Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).

Mangrove rivulus, which can live out of the water for extended periods of time (days or weeks, as long as the conditions are moist), uses its specialised jumping technique when water has low oxygen concentrations or high levels of hydrogen sulphide, or to escape predators and search for terrestrial prey such as crickets.

This latter feature is upsetting for those who hope that any planets around Tau Ceti support life, because Earth - like planets and terrestrial life are made of heavy elements.

Although other salamanders metamorphose into terrestrial creatures, axolotls hold on to their feathery gills and stay in the water for their entire lives.

They refer frequently to their «design system», Echoes (Environmentally Controlled Human Operational Enclosed / External Space), that appears primarily to be a set of vague or obscure guidelines such as this, which appears under the puzzling heading «Lines of sight for healthy living buildings»: «The building spot must be geologically undisturbed... ascertain that there is no disturbance of cosmic and terrestrial influence on the human life form (DNA)... take care of harmonic measures, properties and forms».

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Scientists from the BOREA Biology of Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems research unit (CNRS / MNHN / IRD / UPMC / University of Caen / Université des Antilles)-- together with a colleague from the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany — have shown that Parisian street gutters are oases of microscopic life, home to microalgae, fungi, sponges, and mollusks [1].

«Titan is an especially interesting target for exploration because the organic chemistry now taking place there provides the only planetary - scale laboratory for studying processes that may have been important in the prebiotic terrestrial atmosphere,» the report added, meaning that on Titan is chemistry that could have been similar to what was present on Earth before life arose.

Many gas giant moons have similar features to the terrestrial planets and dwarf planets, and some have been studied for signs of life.

In late September 2003, astrobiologist Maggie Turnbull from the University of Arizona in Tucson identified 37 Geminorum as one of the best candidates for hosting Earth - type life from a shortlist of 30 stars (screened from the 5,000 or so stars that are estimated to be located within 100 ly of Earth) that were presented to a group of scientists from NASA's space - telescope project, the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), which will search for habitable planets by using visible light with the «signature» of water and / or oxygen from an Earth - type planet after its scheduled launch around 2013, and the ESA's Darwin project involving six space telescopes (Astrobiology Magazine).

One well - known model for the beginnings of life on Earth posits that terrestrial life sprang from complex molecules such as amino acids and sugars produced by electrical discharges in a primeval atmosphere replete with gases such as methane, hydrogen, ammonia and water.

Nitrogen and phosphorus are both considered as essential elements for all forms of life, and the corresponding biogeochemical cycles of these two elements are two of the most important in the biosphere, since these elements limit primary production in marine and terrestrial environments19, 27,28,29.

All forms of terrestrial life require water, and while it is possible that life could evolve without the precious liquid, it is easier to search for conditions that are known to be optimal, rather than conditions we suppose could be.»

Extraterrestrial sample analysis and terrestrial field work on fundamental geological processes such as impact cratering, and their implications for the origin and evolution of life.

Terrestrial Animal Health Code of World Organisation for Animal Health defines animal welfare as «how an animal is coping with the conditions in which it lives.

Once on the water we'll keep a sharp lookout for both marine and terrestrial life.

In stark contrast to the rampant extinction of terrestrial life that happened at the same time, Guadalupe was the last refuge for the northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) and the Guadalupe fur seal (Arctocephalus townsendi) in the 1890s.

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CO2 that goes into the atmosphere does not stay there, but continuously recycled by terrestrial plant life and earth's oceans — the great retirement home for most terrestrial carbon dioxide.

But there's more for «Mission to Earth» geeks (I count myself as one) over at the Earth Observatory Web site, where SeaWiFS merits the «Image of the Day» — a view of Earth showing the averaged chlorophyll concentration in the oceans from 1998 through 2010 (and of course showing all that glorious green terrestrial plant life, too):

While the conditions in the geological past are useful indicators in suggesting climate and atmospheric conditions only vary within a a certain range (for example, that life has existed for over 3 billion years indicates that the oxygen level of the atmosphere has stayed between about 20 and 25 % throughout that time), I also think some skeptics are too quick to suggest the lack of correlation between temperature and CO2 during the last 550 million years falsifies the link between CO2 and warming (too many differences in conditions to allow any such a conclusion to be drawn — for example the Ordovician with high CO2 and an ice age didn't have any terrestrial life).

The Swedish national news had it as one of its top stories, and we learned by the reporter responsible for the public Television that 40 % of the terrestrial land will be impossible for humans to live on.

«The implication of our study is that elevated CO2 is sufficient to lead to inhospitable conditions for marine life and excessively high temperatures over land would contribute to the demise of terrestrial life,» the authors concluded in the article.