Sentences with phrase «from tiny creatures»

And that provides the whales with about 100 times more energy from the tiny creatures than they spend capturing them.

High - tech photography offers stunning perspectives — from the tiniest creatures to the landscape of the human body.

Not exact matches

If your hands get tired in this mode, you can slide the Joy - Cons up and off (a tiny release button behind each lets them disengage), prop the Switch on a flat surface with its rear kickstand, then continue playing wirelessly, your hands free to roam like creatures loosed from cages.

In process thought, anything actual at all is an instance of creativity, from the tiniest energy event to the most complex creatures we are aware of, human beings.

Unlike much of the inherited Western tradition, which has equated creativity with mentality and attributed it only to human beings, process thought considers anything actual at all an instance of creativity, from the tiniest energy event to the most complex creatures we are aware of, human beings; some degree of mentality is present in no matter how rudimentary, even negligible, a form.

This tiny creature, part of the whole creation in travail, was guided away from my lethal swats by its sonar.

They will tell you these fossil fuels take millions of years to develop from the remains of large, often Carboniferous Period forests, in the case of coal, or tiny marine creatures in the case of oil.

Babies are tiny creatures that for the most part drink milk from their mothers» breasts, but from the look of any set of new parents, it sure seems more like babies survive by eating their parents» brains.

Although bonding can be immediate for some people, others stare at the tiny, bawling creature they have just brought home from the hospital and wonder, «Who is this person?»

With help from Manna and Google, Lili and her classmates soon discovered that the wood frog - a tiny creature that uses natural anti-freeze to survive harsh winters - carried an unofficial designation next to New York's official apples, apple muffins, blue birds and sugar maples.

A team of investigators from the Salk Institute uncovered new clues about the mechanisms of fear and anxiety through an unlikely creature: the tiny nematode worm.

I used to work down the hall from him, so I'm sure that some of my enthusiasm for the tiny creatures can be blamed on him, along with USC's out - of - control microbe - lover Ken Nealson (Shewanella oneidensis is his bug, among others).

Striking close - up photos and micrographs reveal the dazzling diversity of these tiny creatures — from microscopic unicellular organisms to complex crustaceans.

In recent years, a whole new field called geo - microbiology has sprung up precisely to study tiny creatures that are otherwise indistinguishable from rocks.

By peeking at information retained by a laboratory version of the creature, scientists confirmed the role of information in saving the second law of thermodynamics from the onslaught of a tiny, superpowerful being intent on wreaking havoc.

Conodonts, tiny eel - like creatures that lived from 520 million to 205 million years ago and were our earliest vertebrate relatives, have long been one of paleontology's great enigmas.

An international team of scientists, including one from the University of Colorado Denver and another from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, announced the discovery Thursday of a new species of hominin, a small creature with a tiny brain that opens the door to a new way of thinking about our ancient ancestors.

A peek at tardigrades» genetic diaries may dispel a rumor about an amazing feat the tiny creatures were supposed to perform: borrowing large numbers of genes from other organisms.

A tiny fossil from China could be the earliest of all deuterostomes, creatures that eventually led to evolution of all vertebrates, including humans

The 80 - million - year - old bones reveal a tiny creature, measuring two feet long and 25 ounces, from the dromaeosaurid family, part of the lineage that led to birds and a relative of Velociraptor.

The new study published in Scientific Reports, has shown that the tiny creatures, will survive the risk of extinction from all astrophysical catastrophes, and be around for at least 10 billion years — far longer than the human race.

The fossil, a shell fragment from a large individual of the genus Doedicurus, yielded enough genetic material to completely reconstruct DNA from the creature's mitochondria, the tiny energy factories found in each living cell.

These tiny creatures provide essential services like converting nitrogen from the air into a form that plants can use for food.

I used to work down the hall from him, so I'm sure that some of my enthusiasm for the tiny creatures can be blamed on him, along with USC's out - of...

Because the tiny creatures build their shells from materials in seawater, their calcium carbonate homes reflect the ratio of the two isotopes in the seas of that time.

Every couple of hours, the greedy jelly creature produces a viscid net from proteins and cellulose, pumps water through it and filters tiny algae, bacteria and protists from it.

A tiny sea creature identified from fossils found in China may be the earliest known step on an evolutionary path that eventually led to the emergence of humans

From the smallest microbe to the largest dinosaurs and from the tiniest spore to the biggest giant sequoia, biological research continues to uncover weird and wonderful secrets of the creatures with whom we share the planet with — and could soon extend to the study of life on bodies in the solar system beyond our hFrom the smallest microbe to the largest dinosaurs and from the tiniest spore to the biggest giant sequoia, biological research continues to uncover weird and wonderful secrets of the creatures with whom we share the planet with — and could soon extend to the study of life on bodies in the solar system beyond our hfrom the tiniest spore to the biggest giant sequoia, biological research continues to uncover weird and wonderful secrets of the creatures with whom we share the planet with — and could soon extend to the study of life on bodies in the solar system beyond our home.

Trolls (PG for mild rude humor) Animated musical adventure about the alliance reluctantly forged by an optimist (Anna Kendrick) and a pessimist (Justin Timberlake) to defend their village from a race of ravenous creatures who like to feast on tiny trolls.

And even if some shots of the fighting creatures from within a school bus or car or any tiny human perspective do look great, a little of this goes a long way and it quickly becomes boring.

He glimpsed again the tiny clawing hands, grabbing at fronds of ferns from the brook - side, and all of it, the whole creature, tangled in green threads of time, plummeting, twisting, swimming, down to the depths, right down through the misery of the last century.

In a haunting story that tiptoes between reality and imagination, two people — a lonely, sensitive woman and a damaged, angry boy — face their own histories and discover what they can be to one another, renewed by the strength that comes from a tiny, caring creature they will never see.

Two people face their own histories and discover what they can be to one another, renewed by the strength that comes from a tiny, caring creature they will never see.

The tiny creatures, often abandoned at birth or turned into shelters from accidental litters, have very little hope of growing up and getting adopted but together we can change that.

In the hard - shelled pupa, the larva transforms from a tiny maggot - like creature into a six - legged blood - thirsty super-jumper able to leap 150 times its own body length, and the cycle begins anew.

And while you might spot 35 - ton grey whales from the shores, tiny creatures that weigh less than a gram put on unforgettable displays when the thousands of monarch butterflies arrive at the Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove from late October to February.

And while you might spot 35 - ton gray whales from the shores, tiny creatures that weigh less than a gram put on unforgettable displays when the thousands of monarch butterflies arrive at the Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove from late October to February.

And while we do hear occasional screams coming from her house as comes across the tiny crawling and flying creatures that are so common to our area, she assures us she's okay.

Though much of the game can be conquered without breaking the tiniest sweat, the real fun comes from watching your creature evolve and adapt to the situations it faces.

If you want a deeper glimpse into the world and tiny space captain, each creature and treasure that you encounter is added to a logbook with comments, and sometimes ramblings, from Captain Olimar.

Working from a small studio in her home, Mizushima crafts the tiny creatures by hand, selling her felt creations and prints of the little dioramas she constructs on her Etsy page and on Society6.

Working from a small studio in her home, Mizushima crafts the tiny creatures by hand, selling her felt creations and prints of the little dioramas she constructs on her

Diatomaceous earth powder, made from the microscopic remains of tiny, fossilized sea creatures, gives the surface a dry, powdery quality.

«Once you start cutting, visibility drops from 30 feet to zero because the water clouds up with particles and tiny creatures that get shaken loose,» [diver Cinde MacGugan] said.

But I think fertilizing vast sterile ocean with iron and creating more food for ocean life [and consequently more food from humans] is a better way to go - you using CO2 for a good purpose rather just storing somewhere - and storing CO2 in gas / ice form has some possibility being suddenly released some way, whereas CO2 in skeleton of tiny creatures most likely ends up as limestone.

At any rate, when «normal» rain containing natural carbonic acid falls upon silicon - containing sedimentary rocks formed over eons from the shells of tiny marine creatures — radiolarians, diatoms and some sponges — this «siliceous» rock combines with the carbonic acid to form ions of bicarbonate.

Discarded plastic fishing lines trap and entangle turtles and seabirds, and plastic pieces of all sizes choke and clog the stomachs of creatures who mistake it for food, from tiny zooplankton to whales.

Earth scientist Aradhna Tripati of the University of California, Los Angeles's Department of Earth and Space Sciences and her colleagues extracted a record of past atmospheric concentrations of CO2 stretching back 20 million years from the shells of tiny creatures known as foraminifera buried in a column of ocean mud and rock.

The natural sink for CO2 is the formation of limestone on the sea floor from the skeletons of those tiny sea creatures.