Sentences with phrase «land animals like»

Saldaha Bay is the most prolific source of fossils thus far uncovered anywhere in Africa — bones speak of another world in which there were both fresh water animals and land animals like giant otters, giant pandas, short - necked giraffes and sabre - toothed cats, a rhino from which the white rhino is descended and the «true elephant», an ancestor of the woolly mammoth.
«We've long known about biofluorescence underwater in organisms like corals, jellyfish, and even in land animals like butterflies and parrots, but fish biofluorescence has been reported in only a few research publications,» said co-lead author John Sparks, a curator in the Museum's Department of Ichthyology.

Not exact matches

On land, animals like these Red Crabs also use lunar cues to reproduce.
All animals which live in the water and on land, such as frogs, crocodiles, turtles, and the like, are forbidden as food.
300 million human treated like animals in land of atheism, self center ism india.
It turns out that when we let ourselves surrender to the «Time of the Season,» we are less like the animals and flowers of the field than a) like actors playing parts in some two - bit melodrama about low - class Others, or, b) like the starry - eyed Icaruses of the first verse seeking to take one another «to the sun» and «to promised lands
Now when a group of those «heirs» wants something they don't have, like rich oil fields, clean water, rich farm land, ocean views, mineral deposits, timber or grazing lands for their animals, they go to their bibles, look up some scriptures that talk about how God promised [THEM] everything and decide to take it, regardless of who they have to first demonize (helps the conscience) then kill to get it.
This is just senseless, like the account of the creation of Earth, where animals are made first, but then a few lines later animals are made after man, and where water is created long before dry land but then the land is dry because the rain had not come yet.
But the ordinary things they long for, and the things that they find funny, and the infinite variety of things they dream of, and the games they play, and animals they wish they could have, and things they like to eat, and clothes they wish they could afford to buy, are not as different as the world seems to believe from what most other children in this land enjoy, or dream of, or desire.
No, God likes to kill nearly every living man, woman, infant, fetus, and land animal in a great flood to teach them a lesson.
some things match up — like mammals after other land animals, and sea life before other living creatures.
Suppose he gave Moses a vision or dream about creation to write down, it would be like a slide show, the first frame darkness, then light, water, land, plants, the sun, moon, stars, fish, birds, animals, people.
Over the last 250 million years land animals have repeatedly begun exploiting the seas, giving rise to creatures like whales and walruses.
He turned to holistic management of livestock like cattle and sheep, overriding his own belief that grazing animals had been part of the problem when it came to green, fertile lands widely becoming barren and dry.
In studying the ecology of the ocean, ignoring the most important form of communication is like studying the ecology of land while ignoring animal vision.»
«It is quite rare we find fossils from land animals in this region during this time, but each one provides important information for what life was like then.»
Animals have incredible variation in their body shapes and ways of life, including the plant - like, immobile marine sponges that lack heads, eyes, limbs and complex organs, parasitic worms that live inside other organisms (e.g. nematodes, platyhelminths), and phyla with eyes, skeletons, limbs and complex organs that dominate the land in terms of species numbers (arthropods) and body size (chordates).
Like many parts of the world during the most recent ice ages (the last of which ended about 12,000 years ago), Australia had its share of weird giant animals, including a supersized relative of the Komodo dragon, today's largest land lizard.
Regions like this, which were once part of a war zone, can ironically sometimes become a no - man's - land where animals and plants flourish free of human interference.
It also has contributed to key insights about how animal behavior can be harnessed to improve the condition of the land, especially in regions like his native Zimbabwe with long dry seasons during which ruminants are conveyers of soil fertility and moisture.
«What we found is that we go from soft - bodied ancient aquatic arthropods with no eyes, or at least eyes that don't fossilize well, to suddenly eyes that look like the eyes that we see on insects and land animals today, with basically nothing in between these stages,» says Morehouse.
Overfishing, pollution, climate change and destruction of habitats like coral reefs are all putting our seas in trouble but academics fear the risk is not being taken as seriously as concerns for the loss of animals and plants which live on land.
Huge land animalslike truck - sized sloths and ten - ton mammoths — ate vast quantities of food, and, yes, deposited vast quantities of poop.
But have domestic animals, like cows, taken over the nutrient distribution role of now - extinct large land animals?
But like the first animals to walk on land, it lacks a middle ear.
In addition, camera traps recorded whether the animals» prey sources were more likely encountered in the higher housing densities or in more wild, public land areas like national forestlands.
Soon, plant - eating animal life followed (including Arthropods such as the scorpion - like Eurypterids that moved from marine waters into brackish then fresh water — some species becoming amphibious and emerging onto land for part of their life cycle after becoming capable of breathing in both water and air — which eventually evolved into insects, and finally, by 379 million years ago, animals with backbones known as «vertebrates» which evolved from Fishes that moved onto land to evolve into Amphibians and eventually into Reptiles, Dinosaurs, Birds, and Mammals — Niedzwiedzki et al, 2010).
And like many other land animals, they've got four legs to move them around.
Melting glaciers turning land to bog was behind widespread extinctions of animals like the giant sloth and woolly mammoth between 15,000 and 11,000 years ago.
Like commercial farming operations on land, the density of fish in these pens necessitates certain chemicals to keep animals from getting sick and to keep things clean.
Like land animal meat and eggs, fish and dairy have cholesterol and saturated fat.
Add to this the fact that crops like corn, alfalfa, wheat and soy are now being used as animal feed so much of the land is being used to grow food for animals.
By itself, liver from land animals, especially ruminants like cattle and lamb, is very rich in vitamin A, 64 while livers from both ruminants and poultry animals have only about 12 IU of vitamin D for every 100 grams.65
Omega - 3s from land animals (pigs, cows, etc.) were shown to not lower mortality or morbidity like DHA.
John Goodman plays an evil Congressman who doesn't like animals and wants to take land away from state parks.
When astronaut George Taylor (Charlton Heston) crash lands on an unfamiliar planet, he discovers a world where Apes rule and humans are treated like animals.
The games id like to see revealed are Super Mario Sunshine HD Super Mario Galaxy HD coming way later Metroid U Star Fox U Luigis Mansion 3 Kirby U F - Zero U (it's written all over their faces, this is coming) Nintendo Land 2 hopefully Paper Mario U Mario BaseBall 3 (because I like baseball more: 3) Mother 4 (it's likely with the increased Fan base now) Pikmin 4 Animal Crossing U A new game no one expects again
In between rounds of kicking HYDRA's ass, the actor's chameleon - like ability to fit any role has landed him roles in drama and comedy, including «Logan Lucky,» «The Martian,» «Black Swan» and the TV mini-series «Political Animals
Full of mythical creatures and talking animals, the land of Narnia looks like a winter wonderland, until the children learn the inclement weather is the result of an evil enchantment.
Last Summer's biggest gimmick comedies, Year One (Jack Black in animal skins) and Land of the Lost (Ferrell in another dimension), were crushingly bad; by comparison, Forte's MacGruber (if ever a title deserved to be followed by an exclamation point, this is it), seems like a piece of comic genius.
We speculated a couple days ago that the official release of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp would land near November 22nd and it looks like that prediction has come perfectly true!
Video game Guide publishers Prima Games are giving away free eGuides which you can look up online any time you like and a lot of them are for Wii U & 3DS games including Majora's Mask 3D, Super Mario Land, Mario Kart 8, Smash Bros & Animal Crossing, just to name a few.
, giving us a first look at some major fall players like La La Land, Moonlight, Arrival and Nocturnal Animals.
Don't Leave Home — Michael Tully Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot — Gus Van Sant Duck Butter — Miguel Arteta First Match — Olivia Newman Friday's Child — A.J. Edwards Galveston — Melanie Laurent Hold the Dark — Jeremy Saulnier I Think We're Alone Now — Reed Morano Ideal Home — Andrew Fleming IO — Jonathan Helpert Jinn — Nijla Mumin Jonathan — Bill Oliver Kin — Jonathan Baker, Josh Baker The Land of Steady Habits — Nicole Holofcener Little Woods — Nia DaCosta Lizzie — Craig William Macneill Mandy — Panos Cosmatos Mapplethorpe — Ondi Timoner Monster Anthony Mandler Movie No. 1 — Josephine Decker (4) My Abandonment — Debra Granik (1) Nancy — Christina Choe Night Comes On — Jordana Spiro (5) Old Man and the Gun — David Lowery Piercing — Nicolas Pesce Private Life — Tamara Jenkins Siberia — Matt Ross Skate Girl — Crystal Moselle Slice — Austin Vesely Sorry to Bother You — Boots Riley (2) State Like Sleep — Meredith Danluck Support The Girls — Andrew Bujalski The Kindergarten Teacher — Sara Colangelo The Long Dumb Road — Hannah Fidell The Miseducation of Cameron Post — Desiree Akhavan (3) The Tale — Jennifer Fox Tully — Jason Reitman Tyrel — Sebastián Silva Under the Silver Lake — David Robert Mitchell Untogether — Emma Forrest Wild Nights with Emily — Madeleine Olnek We the Animals — Jeremiah Zagar Welcome the Stranger — Justin Kelly Wendy — Benh Zeitlin What They Had — Elizabeth Chomko Wildlife — Paul Dano Zoe — Drake Doremus
The ancestor project (an exploration of family through dramatis persona) follows the farm immersion experience that offers a sensorial understanding of what it was like to live without electricity, to lug water, to clear the land for pasture, to nurture animals that, in turn, end up on the table to nurture the family.
The latest version of the Isuzu Trooper is starting to look like a bonafide contender to such sport - utility heavyweights as the Land Rover Discovery, Ford Explorer, Chevy Blazer and Jeep Grand Cherokee.For 1995, Isuzu has sharpened the focus of the four - door Trooper, which comes with an all - new interior and in three models - S, LS and Limited.The four - wheel drive Trooper is now a classy, upscale vehicle, an entirely different animal than the boxy, agrarian first - generation Trooper.All 1995 models are powered by an exceptionally smooth - running 3.2 - liter 24 - valve V - 6 engine and are equipped with dual air bags.
This hardscrabble life comes easily to some, like Eddie, who has never wanted more than the land she works and the animals she raises on it with her husband, Frank.
For example, organizations can include a Facebook Like button on the landing page.1 We focus on the type of online ads run by Mercy for Animals and The Humane League.
With hundreds of volunteers, a dedicated staff, and training opportunities from nationally recognized groups like BAD RAP and Dogs Play for Life, the dogs at Berkeley Animal Care Services have landed at one of the better shelters in the country.
«Highly adoptable» animals like poodle puppies or Siamese kittens tend to land us up to 20 emails per day from pre-approved adopters, so if you are interested in a pet like this, please try to understand that many other people are also.
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