Sentences with phrase «from arboreal»

Although the fossil record is incomplete, we have more than enough to see that, in broad terms, our big - brained, long - limbed, built - for - distance - walking species evolved from arboreal ancestors with smaller brains, larger teeth and broader chests.

Among his strongest points is that observations that demonstrate gradual evolutionary changes in specific characteristics (beak shape of finches, color of forest moths, for instance) do not establish how gradual changes could bring about major evolutionary transitions that require concerted functioning of many specialized organs — such as the change from arboreal mammals to night - flying bats, or the origin of life.

All your labels regarding the gods are all sons of the original God who sits on His throne all alone and beside Himself is ever wanting to be released from the arboreal places high above our celestial cosmos of teetered rationalism.

Not exact matches

Iron Gall ink is so named because it is traditionally made from oak galls, a kind of arboreal tumor.

Unfortunately for him and for many other people, he had picked up severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS — perhaps directly from an infected bat or from a small, arboreal mammal called a civet, common in one of Guangdong's famous «wet markets» that sell wild animals for food, or else from a person or chain of people ultimately infected from one of those animal sources.

Hundreds of acres of once - vibrant, postcard - perfect groves that have prospered for centuries are now cemeteries where twisted, dead tree trunks protrude like arboreal zombies from fertile soil in which grass and flowers easily grow.

But a new study published online today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface shows that they might have more than we realized: These arboreal spiders can control their falls, gliding from tree to tree to avoid the dangerous forest floor, just like flying squirrels.

«Night calls reveal two new rainforest arboreal frog species from western New Guinea.»

He went after the branches with the same grim intensity he went at the trunks, lost in mossy arboreal sadness, and he kept hacking away until he was further hidden from sight.

Like monkeys, snakes, squirrels, and other arboreal residents, cats take the occasional tumble from a limb.

The spacious suites are separated into two distinct areas: a sitting room filled with carefully curated local furnishings, adorned with glamorous silks and velvets from top Italian designers; and a stylishly - decorated bedroom with light yellow, arboreal wallpaper and a deeply comfortable king - sized bed.

In this body of work, Oppenheim makes photograms from paper - thin slices of wood, using the same arboreal species to frame the images.

Her paintings range from the symbolic to a kind of unique arboreal portraiture.

Featured among the large - scale works is Vertigo (sotto en su) from 2007, comprised of layers of precision - cut, highly polished metal woven into a reflective and intricate arboreal pattern suspended high above the viewer.

Featured among the large - scale works is Vertigo (sotto en su) from 2007, comprised of layers of precision - cut, highly polished metal woven into a reflective and intricate arboreal pattern suspended high above the viewer, not unlike an immense, cascading tree branch.

This was clearly a bad outbreak of the gypsy moth, an invasive species whose occasional arboreal ravages were familiar to me from childhood days in Rhode Island long ago.

For the ultimate in getaway cabins, the Dom «Up suspended treehouse offers a unique arboreal living experience to its residents, without harming the trees that it's hanging from.

Like the local birds that flit in between and build their nests amongst these silent arboreal giants, the Birdhut has been built using materials scavenged from the site itself.