Sentences with phrase «in ancient creatures»

At Brown, Turner is working in the lab of Professor Stephen Gatesy, where she is studying a continuum of postures and locomotion in ancient creatures.

Not exact matches

We all are creatures of mingled good and evil; and, good institutions neglected and ancient moral principles ignored, the evil in us tends to predominate.

There was a scholar in ancient Alexandria, named Arius, who taught that the Logos, or Word, that became incarnate in Jesus was a supernatural creature, the first and greatest of all creatures.

John Gay in his Beggar's Opera notes that «A covetous fellow, like a jackdaw, steals what he was never made to enjoy, for the sake of hiding it» Ancient Greek authors tell how a jackdaw, being a social creature, may be caught with a dish of oil which it falls into while looking at its own reflection.

The Law is what's out in the world... fossils of ancient creatures that don't exist anymore.

It is a form of explanation which made use of the ancient concept of God's Wisdom, pictured almost as a distinct personal entity, God's agent in the creation of the world and his intermediary towards his rational creatures, who enters into the souls of men and makes them the friends of God.

Why should a tale of a man living in the digestive tract of an aquatic creature for three days and exiting unscathed be thought of as more valid than the story of a man who translated ancient writing with magic seer stones?

This is how much care God took in creating the Earth — He included an amazing diversity of fossils representing ancient humans and other creatures that never existed, just to keep us guessing.

Is you god «an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four - footed animals and crawling creatures» and of ancient organic pond soup (sometimes called ancient pond scum)?

Your kids will see some of the oldest dinosaur bones in Canada and meet ancient creatures.

Chimerarachne yingi, an extinct spiderlike animal found in amber, has a tail that stretches several times its body length, Susan Milius reported in «This ancient creature looks like a spider with a tail» (SN: 3/3/18, p. 32).

Dinosaurs resurrected using preserved DNA still only exist in Jurassic Park, but we're making great strides in sequencing the genomes of more recent, but still ancient, creatures.

We've reached the end of our New Mexico road trip, and we have scoured the side of the road for long - dead sea creatures, found a shark tooth in an ancient seafloor and tracked long - dead worms across fossilized mud.

And in Australia — where people and oversized animals may have coexisted thousands of years ago — some scholars have speculated that references to enormous animal - like creatures in Australia's Aboriginal «Dreamtime» mythology may have drawn from ancient encounters with real megafauna or their remains, known today from Australia's fossil record.

Home to an ancient Aztec outpost high in the mountains and inhabited with monkeylike creatures called coatis, it is the definition of quaint, picturesque Mexico.

The new analysis «is an elegant example of how to use the geochemistry of a fossil to infer the behavior and movement of an ancient creature,» says Henry Fricke, an isotope geochemist at Colorado College in Colorado Springs.

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.

The creatures that met their sticky ends in this fossilised tree resin can provide valuable clues about ancient life.

In the depths of the Arctic Ocean, buried deep in the sediment, an ancient creature waited for over a million years to be discovereIn the depths of the Arctic Ocean, buried deep in the sediment, an ancient creature waited for over a million years to be discoverein the sediment, an ancient creature waited for over a million years to be discovered.

Manning suspects that skin and soft tissue may have been overlooked in other fossils and that they could yield startling new insights about ancient creatures.

From biting creatures to spontaneous flames, doing your duty in ancient Rome could be a frightening task.

That will help researchers better understand the vanished world in which these ancient creatures lived.

In truth, I am also a bit of a Depp fan and so what better way to honour the man than to immortalise him as an ancient creature that once roamed the sea?»

The ancient pollen grains are large and apparently clumped together readily, a clue that the plant that bore the flowers was pollinated by creatures and not by the wind, the researchers report online today in Biology Letters.

Because the fecal matter of dinosaurs and other ancient creatures has been found in the fossil record, ambergris should have been preserved, too, says Angela Baldanza, a sedimentary geologist at the University of Perugia in Italy.

Yet these ancient creatures live, breathe and rampage across the screen in movies like Jurassic Park and TV series like BBC's Primeval.

The fossils of the creature, named after the Rising Star cave system in which they were discovered — «naledi» means «star» in the local Sesotho language — paint the picture of an ancient hominin that possessed a mixture of human and ape - like traits.

There are many efforts to identify dinosaurs excavated from sites in many parts of the world but being able to identify new species and seeing full - sized reconstructions of the ancient creatures are always exciting to experience.

The story of the white elephant as history tells, is this rare creature was regarded as sacred and holy in ancient times in many Asian countries.

The first scene in this installment has Thor talking to one of his ancient foes, a fiery creature wearing a horned crown.

Paleontologist Kate Lloyd is asked to join a Norwegian expedition in the Antarctic after they uncover an ancient alien spacecraft deep beneath the ice, but when one of the shape - shifting creatures awakens from its icy tomb, she will be forced

Paleontologist Kate Lloyd is asked to join a Norwegian expedition in the Antarctic after they uncover an ancient alien spacecraft deep beneath the ice, but when one of the shape - shifting creatures awakens from its icy tomb, she will be forced to determine friend from foe in a battle for survival atop the frozen continent.

The original 1981 Clash of the Titans, a fantasy adventure of ancient roman gods and monsters and hapless humans caught in the squabble, was the swan song of stop motion creature grandmaster Ray Harryhausen, the last celebration of old school craft in the age of modern special effects.

Miyazaki's greatest films have the organic quality of ancient fairy tales: The benevolent forest creatures in My Neighbor Totoro or the bathhouse - frequenting monsters of Spirited Away seem to spring full - blown from both Japanese folk culture and the deepest recesses of preverbal memory.

Summary: Vampires and Lycans come to a breaking point in this modernized tale of two ancient creatures battling for superiority.

«Myths, Magic & Monsters: The FX of 47 Ronin» dives deep into the creatures of ancient Japanese folklore used in the film.

An ancient myth of a fabled creature sparks the curiosity of Tinker Bell and her friend Fawn, an animal fairy who's not afraid to break the rules to help an animal in need.

The Great Wall, starring Matt Damon as China's last hope in their fight against some ancient creatures (huh?)

What you have to do to seek them out is find areas in any of Monster Hunter World's maps with Herbivorous creatures, like Aptonoth in the Ancient Forest or Kelbi in the Wildspire Waste and Coral Highlands.

When the three Grace children — troubled Jared; his bookish twin, Simon; and their sister, Mallory, a fencing jock — move to the ancient Spiderwick mansion, they are at first none - too - enchanted by the rundown Victorian... until they discover a Brownie, an enchanted creature, living in the walls.

Did you know that most of the names of characters and magical creatures in the Harry Potter series have roots in classical mythology and Latin and / or Ancient Greek?

Instead of revering the «bow in the cloud» of Genesis, that ancient sign of His promise never again to destroy Earth's living creatures, the cultists said to look to the white comet, to a new covenant in which animals didn't fit, and on one continent after another, they found ways to tip already endangered whole ecosystems toward their bowls of ashes.

The animals in Mez's Magic know the two - legs only as legendary ancient creatures, implying that the book takes place in a time post-people.

Looking down at the serpent's wet body, glistening from the ancient sunlight, long before man was a creature who could contemplate the next moment in time.

Elsewhere in the pyramid Komatsu discovers an ancient cook book and comes under attack from a mummified creature that visually looks like their robotic rivals, but is definitely a living thing.

Dive or snorkel among the brilliant corals and marine creatures in the turquoise waters of the Great Barrier Reef, bushwalk in the ancient World Heritage Listed Daintree forests or just relax and enjoy the best of Port Douglas and the Tropical North.

Cruise the Galápagos for four nights aboard the Xavier III, snorkel with sea lions and discover spectacular marine life in protected bays, Visit a tortoise ranch to see these ancient creatures, Soa...

In addition there are beautiful birds such as hornbills, rarities like Bornean pygmy elephants, and ancient creatures including crocodiles and snakes.

In ancient Sardinian folklore «janas» were pretty, fairy - like creatures who lived in caves carved into the island's rock (known as «domus de janas»In ancient Sardinian folklore «janas» were pretty, fairy - like creatures who lived in caves carved into the island's rock (known as «domus de janas»in caves carved into the island's rock (known as «domus de janas»).

The game is set in an expansive high - fantasy world where the player coexists with the likes of kings, knights, wizards, ancient species and various other mythical creatures.