Sentences with phrase «hundreds of million years ago»

These magnetic imprints on the ocean floor can be used as a sort of time machine, allowing past field changes to be reconstructed and showing the movement of tectonic plates from hundreds of million years ago until the present day.

Not exact matches

A similar law enacted about a year ago in North Carolina prompted the relocation of sporting events and economic boycotts that were estimated to have cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars.

Two years ago it was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on venture capital investments in food delivery, group buying, and house cleaning — not to bet on the next big thing, but to add users for its payment system.

It's a «myth that Jamie Dimon is a good risk manager,» she said, noting that a couple of years ago J.P. Morgan lost «hundreds of millions» due to speculative derivative trading in which they «monopolized the entire global coal market.»

The success of these all - but - unknown companies in raising millions — or hundreds of millions — of dollars is all the more striking given that many of these firms did not exist a year ago, while others do not even have a functioning prototype.

And a hundred years or so ago, millions of people my people, including my great aunt, were sent to their deaths.»

A few thousand years ago, unnamed desert dwelling goat herders wrote a book, making all sorts of outrageous and outlandish claims, backed up by zero evidence, and they have hundreds of millions of followers.

The paleontologistS tell us that the earth was much warmer hundreds of millions of years ago shown by evidence of the antarctic being forested.

Hundreds of millions of years of life on Earth boiling down to a belief in something that happened 2000 years ago makes so sense to me, and never will.

A few years ago, when the seventh largest corporation in America, Penn Central, was on the verge of forfeiting on hundreds of millions of dollars in short - term loans, the Federal Reserve saved hundreds of banks from bankruptcy — and the economy from catastrophe — by offering to cover all the loans required at that point to maintain stability.

(I have worked as a paralegal for famous civil rights attorneys in the U.S., they won hundreds of millions of dollars, the US Supreme Court heard one of their cases a couple of years ago, and they move in to legal action very quickly.)

Plants came out upon the land some six hundred million years ago, after the planet earth had shaped itself through a great series of transformations forming the continents, the mountains, the valleys, the rivers and streams.

The geologists know exactly what rocks to look for fossil fuels in, because they know how to date the rocks to tens or hundreds of millions of years ago.

Researchers have discovered that hydra (coral - like polyps that emerged hundreds of millions of years ago) form tumours similar to those found in humans.2 Thomas Bosch, at Kiel University, and Domazet - Lošo, from the Catholic University of Croatia in Zagreb unexpectedly discovered tumour - bearing polyps in two species of hydra.

Since The Force Awakens was released a year and a half ago, there have been hundreds, thousands — likely millions — of theories and conspiracies popping up on the internet about what will happen in Episode VIII, now known...

That is in sharp contrast to the position 10 years ago and comes on top of many hundreds of millions of pounds of investment in recent years.

Since its start 40 years ago this month, City Limits has published millions of words about hundreds of topics and survived thanks to the smarts and sacrifice of dozens of journalists.

«For us in Ghana, the Capitation Grant, introduced some 13 years ago, under the administration of that far - sighted Ghanaian statesman, His Excellency John Agyekum Kufuor, the 2nd President of Ghana's 4th Republic, is, presently, enabling six million, three hundred and seventy one thousand, nine hundred and seventy five (6,371,975) school - going children, representing some 90 % of school - going children in Ghana, to enjoy fee - free education in our basic schools,» he said.

Some of these brains showed surface creases similar to ones that were thought to have signaled a turn toward humanlike brain organization in ancient hominids hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago.

About 170 million years ago, huge, long - necked dinosaurs called sauropods left hundreds of footprints on the floor of a shallow saltwater lagoon on a warm island in the midlatitudes.

A new study suggests that instead of a plume of hot mantle that extends down to Earth's core, the real culprit is a subducting tectonic plate that began sinking beneath North America hundreds of millions of years ago.

One hundred and fifty million years ago, parts of Germany were mostly underwater.

Although Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, it apparently experienced a delayed spike of impacts several hundred million years later.

In a 1967 paper published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology, Margulis suggested that mitochondria and plastids — vital structures within animal and plant cells — evolved from bacteria hundreds of million of years ago, after bacterial cells started to collect in interactive communities and live symbiotically with one another.

Two hundred and fifty million years ago, the Permian extinction wiped out virtually all marine species and most life on land, clearing the path for the dinosaurs and setting back the rise of mammals by 50 million years.

Only a few hundred years ago, for instance, millions of bison roamed the western United States.

He was hooked on fossils and meteorites as a teenager, when he explored the quarries in his hometown, Erfoud, for ammonites, the nautilus - shaped mollusks that lived hundreds of millions of years ago.

(Reuters)- The Ice Bucket Challenge that went viral two years ago, raising hundreds of millions of dollars, has helped identify a new gene behind the neurodegenerative disease ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, researchers say.

Prior to the emergence of white rot fungi hundreds of millions of years ago, fungi were not capable of breaking down lignin, and the undecayed plant mass became the basis of large coal deposits.

The researchers credit a fluke of geology: The lakes apparently sit atop thick salt deposits laid down hundreds of millions of years ago, which act like road salt to keep the water liquid.

But observations made this year, in the final months of NASA's Cassini spacecraft, and reported here at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) show they are surprisingly youthful: Until a few hundred million years ago, they did not exist.

Hundreds of millions of years ago a humble fish swam in the lakes and rivers of the supercontinent Gondwana.

The oldest galaxies seen directly with telescopes sent their starlight from significantly later: several hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang, which occurred about 13.8 billion years ago.

By investigating the interactions within algal colonies, researchers hope to understand how single cells took the evolutionary leap to mass organization hundreds of millions of years ago.

«Evidence from microfossils strongly suggests that life arose on the earth long ago, probably within a few hundred million years of the planet's formation.

They are ancestors to terrestrial plants, which seem to have evolved from certain ocean phytoplankton hundreds of millions of years ago.

He said: «The types of survivors that made it across the mass extinction 66 million years ago, mostly generalists, might be indicative of what will survive in the next hundred years, the next thousand.»

«Imagine that you are in this site a hundred million years ago; the area that we drilled in was covered by at least a few meters of rock.

«When we look to the fossil record, from hundreds of millions of years ago to near present day, we see episodes of climatic change and biological upheaval, and we see similar patterns.»

Studies on sea urchins provided the missing link because they have a protein with elements common to those in both humans and insects and reveal a common ancestry hundreds of millions of years ago.

In a dramatic example of the power of domestication, beginning some 9000 years ago people in Mexico and the U.S. Southwest transformed the unappetizing grass called teosinte into the many - kerneled maize that today feeds hundreds of millions around the world.

Q:» We see the universe as it was hundreds, thousands, millions and billions of years ago.

In the past several decades, scientists have discovered that the North — South distributions of certain plants often result from a single jump across the tropics, not as a result of gradual movements or events that occurred over a hundred million years ago.

The shale, named for the town of Eagle Ford, TX, is a geologic remnant of the ancient ocean that covered present day Texas millions of years ago, when the remains of sea life (especially ancient plankton) died and deposited onto the seafloor, were buried by several hundred feet of sediment, eventually turning into the rich source of hydrocarbons we have today.The shale was first tapped in 2008 and now has around 20 active fields good producing over 900 million cubic feet per day of natural gas.

It is rather early to speculate, but maybe Pluto captured Charon only a few hundred million years ago (rather than billions), and we are seeing the effect of the very strong tidal interactions that would have ensued.

Their analysis concluded that whale body length had varied randomly for about 30 million years before making a leap to more than 10 meters between 4.5 million and hundreds of thousands of years ago — a stretch of time that straddles the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, commonly referred to as the Plio - Pleistocene — which was more recent than previous research suggested.

«The lineage has been around for hundreds of millions of years, but without the mass extinction event 66 million years ago, it is very likely that the oceans wouldn't be dominated by the fish we see today.»

Ice entombed our planet hundreds of millions of years ago, and complex animals evolved in the greenhouse heat wave that followed

Those jumping genes got stuck in the ancient host's DNA hundreds of millions of years ago.

One hundred fifty million years ago, the Farallon Plate covered more than one - third of the earth's surface.