Sentences with phrase «humans and other animals today»

The tick enmeshed in the feather belongs to the same group of ticks as the deer ticks that bite humans and other animals today.

Not exact matches

We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.

Today's frogs, comprising more than 6,700 known species, as well as many other animal and plant species are under severe stress around the world because of habitat destruction, human population explosion and climate change, possibly heralding a new period of mass extinction.

Poinar suggested in the journal American Entomologist that the origins of this deadly disease, which today can infect animals ranging from humans and other mammals to birds and reptiles, may have begun in an insect such as the biting midge more than 100 million years ago.

Today, the UNC School of Medicine lab of 2015 Nobel laureate Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, has published an exquisite study of this powerful DNA repair system in plants, which closely resembles a repair system found in humans and other animals.

Rothschild hasn't been able to identify the dinosaur species, but the growths resemble benign tumors called hemangiomas found today in the bones of humans and other animals.

Our water today contains thousands of contaminants from pollution, manufacturing, fertilizer, animal waste, human waste, medications, chemicals, and thousands of other items.

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, June 14, 2016 — American Humane, the country's first national humane organization, and the first to create historic protections for animals on farms and ranches, film and television, and other environments where animals live in human care, is announcing today the launch of a global program dedicated to helping ensure the welfare and humane treatment of the remarkable, endangered and disappearing animals living in the world's zoos and aquariums.

In today's world, these dogs are known for their gentle and outgoing disposition, friendliness towards humans and other animals, and their eagerness to please.

Also similar to today, the end - Pleistocene extinction event played out on a landscape where human population sizes began to grow rapidly, and when people began to exert extinction pressures on other large animals (Barnosky, 2008; Brook and Barnosky, 2012; Koch and Barnosky, 2006).