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.