Sentences with phrase «from modern animals»

Since fossils in general, and dinosaur fossils in particular, are rare and very different from modern animals, it's lucky that humans came wired to spot the unusual, and collect the oddities that resembled ancient life forms long before there was a subject called palaeontology.

The rib, he and his colleagues report, absorbed infrared light in wavelengths that match those of collagen from modern animals.

Using genetic data from modern animals to figure out what went on in the past is like flipping to the end of a novel and reading only the ending; it shows how things ended up but doesn't indicate how the story started or unfolded.

Another approach could be to use a donor egg from a modern animal but with its DNA replaced by that of the extinct animal.

Not exact matches

It has already invested in some companies that graduated from the Labs incubator, including Modern Meadow, a New Jersey — based startup that's biofabricating leather without the need for animals, and 3Scan, a company that enables 3D analysis of tumors and organs.

The company, named Modern Meadow, makes leather and, indeed, meat by taking skin or muscle samples from animals via biopsy and then growing them in vitro.

The drugs, which could be administered in both feed and water, helped shield the livestock from disease, which also allowed farmers to pack more animals into barns and transformed old - fashioned agriculture into its modern industrialized form.

From the dog that couldn't grasp the concept of an escalator to the eagle that destroyed a drone, here are some of the most epic encounters between animals and modern gadgets.

In Brooklyn, Modern Meadow, backed by $ 53 million from investors, creates «leather» using engineered cells rather than animal skins.

Easterbrook, who has vowed to remake McDonald's as a «modern, progressive burger company,» has been taking steps to bolster the taste and quality of McDonald's food by using butter instead of margarine on Egg McMuffins and switching to cage - free eggs and chicken from animals raised with fewer antibiotics.

The theory of societies, like modern general systems theory, pictures a world made up of societies within societies (systems within systems) That is, societies do not just line up side by side like mosaics — they form «nested hierarchies» that go from subatomic particles through cells to animal bodies, or through stars to galaxies.

Then came the Cambrian explosion, which gave rise to a huge diversity of life forms: most types of modern animals appear in the fossil record from this era.

How is it possible that two such mutually exclusive concepts of man could be championed from ancient until modern times — man, an animal; man, a God?

Humanity Made for Christ When speaking to modern audiences, especially young adults, about what distinguishes us from the animals, it is not always a good idea to start with negative distinctions - pointing out, for example, that animals can not do such and such, but we can.

While we all take some inspiration from ancient paganisms, there are some groups who are deeply dedicated to studying the primary texts and archaeological records of their chosen cultural framework to try to make their paths as close to their spiritual ancestors as reasonably possible in the modern world — this includes the use of bonfires and occasionally animal sacrifice.

They violate health codes, torture animals, pay minimum wages with minimum benefits, prevent workers from unionizing, import plastic crap from China (Walmart), pollute the environment (Tyson), drive once proud poultry farmers into becoming wage slaves (Tyson), sell cheap products with high - profits produces by «modern slaves» in China and other third - world countries (Walmart),... WWJB?

Yes, something quite amazing happened in the case of the evolution of humans, but that doesn't mean that we didn't in fact evolved from the same animals other modern primates evolved from.

Even the point about what is best for other creatures, which may seem very modern, is not without foundation in Hebrew Scriptures in such passages as the law against taking the hen - bird as well as the eggs from the nest (Deut 22:6), or this saying from Proverbs: «A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast» (12:10), where, be it noted, the quality that makes a man considerate of his working animals is not prudence or good business sense but «righteousness,» a point all the more significant when we remember that in the Hebrew Scriptures one of the marks of righteousness is not mere evenhandedness but active favor to the weak and deprived.

As I re-read the story it seemed obvious it couldn't really be history — or if it was, it was completely unverifiable: Eve is created from Adam's rib; a snake converses with and tempts Eve; God puts a very desirable fruit tree in the garden then commands man not to eat it; eating this fruit causes all the world's pain and suffering; God curses Adam, Eve, their descendents, and the earth; «every living thing» is destroyed by a worldwide flood; all our modern animals descend from the originals on Noah's Ark; and so on.

When did «tithing» go from the old testament giving of crops and animals, etc, to our modern 10 % of our paycheck?

There is a need to start short - term courses on farm management practices, modern animal management practices, etc. for milk producers, with adequate grants from government to institutes providing such courses.

Nearly all modern fruits, vegetables, meats and animal products are derived from thousands of years of selective breeding to increase size and fat / sugar content.

Australian agricultural industry groups are bracing for attacks from animal activists globally following the recent release of an explosive documentary which claims to «expose the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture».

Key papers from Danisco Animal Nutrition at the XIII European Poultry Conference, 23 - 27 August 2010, Tours, France, will be focusing on factors enhancing the response to xylanase in modern poultry diets.

Gelatin - rich foods, from bone broths to head cheese to foods like pig's feet and ox tails, were a large part of a traditional diet Our ancestors relished every part of the animal, and just as they ate organ meats that most modern Americans now spurn, they also ate all the gelatin - rich bony and cartilaginous bits of the animal.

With all America to choose from, professional tennis had managed to open its newest tour and its quest for a sharp, modern image in a primitive animal exhibition hall in the stockyards of Kansas City, Mo..

«Net Spend» is a much scoffed at phrase in modern football, but to transform Liverpool into the gegenpressing, offensive monster we often see now, from the weary, possession - obsessed «animal» it was at the end of Brendan Rodgers» reign — while making # 34m — is nothing short of...

In this modern age where science rules and people are further than ever from their animal origins, it's no wonder that breastfeeding has become a taboo subject for many.

But the paradox is that, in modern sophisticated societies, people are separated and divorced from both farming practices and the slaughter of the animals they consume.

This spiral fossil comes from the shell of an ammonite, an extinct animal related to a modern nautilus.

In addition, he believes that modern imaging provides a bridge between human cognitive neuroscience and animal studies, allowing more inferences from one to the other.

Three - dimensional reconstructions of the skulls of the Goyet dog and another Ice Age dog show that the animals» snouts didn't angle from the skull the way modern dogs» do, and the ancient versions didn't have some other features of modern dogs (SN Online: 2/5/15).

By comparing ancient and modern DNA from a domesticated animal as well as its nearest wild relatives, researchers can identify when specific genetic mutations associated with domestication arose.

Ancient cave bears, which roamed from the United Kingdom to Russia for hundreds of thousands of years, made a strong impression on Stone Age artists, who included them in a 30,000 - year - old gallery of animals lining the walls of Chauvet cave in modern France.

The team wanted to use tissue from hundreds of mammoth carcasses found in permafrost to work out the relationships among the animals and compare them to their distant cousins, modern elephants.

The scientist from Tübingen reached the conclusion that, on the one hand, modern man was the cause of these giant terrestrial animals» extinction, and on the other hand, humans took over part of the animals» ecosystem functions.

Albano Beja - Pereira, a molecular biologist from CIBIO - University of Porto, Portugal, sampled donkey DNA from 52 countries and found that the modern - day animals are descended from two lineages domesticated in northeast Africa about 5,000 years ago, making the donkey the only significant domesticated species that originated in Africa.

In their first paper, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology in 1997, Schweitzer, Horner, and colleagues reported that spectroscopy and chemical analyses of extracts from a T. rex femur suggested preserved proteins, including a form of collagen abundant in modern animal bones.

In addition to collecting DNA from hundreds of modern wolves as well as mutts and purebred dogs, the dual - origin researchers extracted DNA from dozens of ancient dogs, including a particularly high - value sample from a 4,800 - year - old animal unearthed in Newgrange, Ireland.

Dr Gus Mills, from the Lewis Foundation, South Africa and Oxford University's WildCRU said: «Modern technology has given us the opportunity to record and measure facets of animal behaviour we have never been able to do.

Rat Island By William Stolzenburg (Bloomsbury) In this modern - day Pied Piper tale, scientists, trappers, and ex-poachers descend on rat - infested islands from New Zealand to the Bering Sea, laying down poison - laced bait in a desperate bid to kill one animal so that another might live.

Dr Ville Friman, from the University of York's Department of Biology, said: «In modern animal husbandry, animals are reared in high density to maximize food production.

The Animals Among Us: How Pets Make Us Human By John Bradshaw From the dawn of domestication to pampered modern pets, anthrozoologist Bradshaw, author of the best - selling Cat Sense and Dog Sense, traces the evolution of predators into companions in this riveting read.

The mere presence of filter feeders as large as Tamisiocaris suggests that Cambrian ecosystems were much more productive than previously recognized, the researchers contend: As seen in modern species as diverse as fish, sharks, and whales, large animals can successfully exploit small prey only when they can be sieved from the environment in great concentrations.

Although common in humans, domestic pets, and zoo animals, periodontal disease does not typically develop in wild animals, leading to speculation that it is an oral microbiome disease resulting from modern human lifestyles.

Archaeologist Daniel Adler from the University of Connecticut, working with David Lordkipanidze and Nikolaz Tushabramishvili of the Georgian State Museum and their colleagues at the University of Haifa, Hebrew University, and Harvard University, analyzed animal remains in a rock shelter in the Republic of Georgia that was used by Neanderthals and later by modern humans.

Modern multicellular animals probably evolved from an ancestor very similar to a choanoflagellate, and animal sperm use enzymes similar to EroS to identify and penetrate eggs of the right species.

Furthermore, «because some hunter - gatherer societies obtained most of their dietary energy from wild animal fat and protein does not imply that this is the ideal diet for modern humans, nor does it imply that modern humans have genetic adaptations to such diets.»

But genetic studies of modern animals had suggested that all of these creatures evolved from a single - celled ancestor that lived at least 100 million years before that, leaving a huge gap between the estimated origin of animals and the appearance of the earliest known animal fossils.

Animals and plants were first domesticated across a region stretching north from modern - day Israel, Palestine and Lebanon to Syria and eastern Turkey, then east into, northern Iraq and north - western Iran, and south into Mesopotamia; a region known as the Fertile Crescent.