Sentences with phrase «huge colonies»

However, it now turns out that the melting is caused not by volcanoes but by huge colonies of hotheaded ice borers deep under the ice.

The insect also likes a party: In late winter or early spring, these bugs sometimes form huge colonies, as wide as a yard, with millions of individuals migrating together like a superorganism, devouring the algae that grow on wet, decomposing leaf litter in the melting snow, Schulz explains.

Giant elephant seals haul out in huge colonies on beaches near Piedras Blancas Lighthouse, north of Cambria.

A third huge colony exists on the west coast of Japan.

Finally, there's the extremes of the sub-Antarctic on Macquarie Island, with huge colonies of colourful king penguins and enormous elephant seals.As

This reserve boasts huge colonies of sea lions and marine birds, including Humboldt penguins and flamingos.

Huge colonies of bacteria feed on the methane, and large numbers of clams and worms feed on the bacteria.

Corals are animals, the translucent creatures that form huge colonies and create a variety of structures.

The auk lives in huge colonies that make these effects highly significant within the ecosystem.

There may be a huge colony of them in Nashville, but I am guessing not.

And now, as if we weren't already paranoid enough about missing a tick on our kids, one mother has posted a photo of what happened when her daughter got caught by a huge colony of tiny baby seed ticks, and it's pretty harrowing stuff.

With all due respect to Prof. Achebe's golden memory, among family, friends, loved ones and even the huge colony of literary offspring, across races worldwide, that swan song, by its one - sided rendition of the Biafra tragedy, created the ogre that birthed the Kanu IPOB menace.

apparently there is a huge colony of sea grass (Posidonia oceanica) in the mediterranean sea, near ibiza that could be up to 100,000 years old!

Huge colonies of marine invertebrates known as pyrosomes may coordinate their jet - like propulsion system by flashing lights at each other

A huge colony of receptors must be optimally positioned and functioning on our muscle cells for our brains to talk with our bodies so we can walk and breathe.

They don't realize that by altering all of the cats, that you can keep them from multiplying and having a huge colony of cats that create a public nuisance.

Huge colonies of Menonites live in Belize!