Sentences with phrase «leg bones about»

Women from the earliest farming sites, dating to between about 7,300 and 7,000 years ago, had leg bones about as strong as those of modern rowers but arm bones between 11 and 16 percent stronger for their size than rowers.

Not exact matches

They are now larger, weighing about 8 lbs, with about 3 times the body length and leg height, and correspondingly larger bones, organs, muscles, more fur, etc..

Directions: Put turkey leg or thigh in pressure cooker / Cover with broth and water / Add vegetables, thyme, bay leaf and peppercorns / Tighten down lid and cook on high heat until pressure gauge reaches the high mark / Turn down temperature but maintain the same amount of high pressure — this takes a little experimenting, on my stove it works on low - medium / Cook for 30 minutes from the time the cooker reaches high pressure / Remove from heat and let the pressure release naturally — this takes about 20 minutes / Open the lid / Strain off the vegetables and seasonings and remove turkey leg / Take meat off the bone and return it to the pot with the broth, discarding bones and skin.

Place the legs on a large heavy rimmed baking tray and roast for about 40 minutes, or until they are golden brown and barely pink at the bone when pierced with the tip of a small sharp knife and much of their fat has been rendered.

Place the legs on a large heavy rimmed baking sheet and roast for about 40 minutes, or until they are golden brown and barely pink at the bone when pierced with the tip of a small sharp knife and much of their fat has been rendered.

2 bone - in turkey legs (thigh and drumstick attached) and 2 bone - in turkey breasts (about 8 pounds total; from one 10 — 12 - lb.

8 pieces skin - on, bone - in chicken legs (about 6 pounds total), drumsticks and thighs separated, patted dry

The site provides new information about the region's sauropods, which were previously known only from fragments of a tail bone, a leg bone, and a few bits of teeth — scraps so small that researchers couldn't assign the fossils to a particular species or even estimate its size.

Nor does it include the possibility of larger individuals of the species; one of the leg bones used in the team's model had to be shrunk about 15 % to get it to fit well with its neighboring bones from other creatures, which suggests that considerably larger and heftier S. giganteum existed.

Other MRI scans provided anatomical details about bones, joints and leg sizes.

A leg bone «does tell you something about size, but teeth are much better.»

The dent, about the size of a thumbprint, marks the place where the leg bone fit into the pelvis.

Fossil bones don't clearly show whether modern - type birds fluttered about during the Cretaceous, but the treads in Shandong do, painting an improbable scene: Animals much like today's roadrunners were in fact scampering beside two - legged, plant - eating dinosaurs.

Using the dimensions of its leg bones and a formula that projected weight - carrying capacity, they estimated that the massive herbivore tipped the scales at about 59 metric tons, making it the heftiest dinosaur known from a relatively complete specimen.

[see: http://bit.ly/cDdbUx] When we think about animal locomotion... whether it's walking, running, or just standing around... we usually focus on the bones and muscles in the legs and feet.

Radiocarbon dating of a fossilized leg bone from a Jamaican monkey called Xenothrix mcgregori suggests it may be the one of the most recent primate species anywhere in the world to become extinct, and it may solve a long - standing mystery about the cause of its demise.

Each of its leg bones was about as long as an average man is tall.

A forty percent complete skeleton, many of her large bones had been preserved through fossilization and from these, and in particular the femur (thigh bone) and pelvis, we know she stood upright and moved about on two legs and it was claimed she walked in the same manner as humans today: a straight legged stride, knees extended, posture upright.

Broke my leg (never have broken any thing in my life before) and started reading about how those medicines suck the calcium out of your bones.

I am fit and healthy — I do boxing boot camp, and body pump, and body attack, and PT, and run and long walks etc., I have no intention of ever geting stick thin (my natural body shape wouldn't allow that anyway — at a size 10 all my bones stick out) and I detest bones sticking out and women who look like their legs are about to snap off.

The only thing that I originally loved about it was it's bones and legs....

Love, which reunites Haneke with Piano Teacher star Isabelle Huppert, is about a retired music teacher who has a stroke, while Rust and Bone, Audiard's first film since A Prophet, features Marion Cotillard as an aqua park employee who loses her legs in an accident involving an orca.

Chicken leg quarters are about 80 % meat, and 20 % bone.

When I watched her eating the legs, she chewed the legs for about a minute or two, but then swallowed the leg bone whole without breaking it up.

At about the 12 month mark, she developed pain in the leg again, so we did an x-ray to evaluate the appearance of the bone for strength.

He's the dog we began telling you about three months ago when your Rancho Coastal Humane Society raised funds to pay for a surgery that would stretch a bone in his leg so he could walk without pain.

A study reported in Veterinary Medicine in August 1995 compared puppies sterilized at about eight weeks of age with littermates spayed or neutered at seven months and found that the younger puppies recovered more quickly from the surgery than the adolescents but by 18 months of age had slightly longer radii (front leg bones).

Brian, of HomeLife Glenayre Realty in Chilliwack B.C., was laid up in Portage La Prairie hospital for about 10 days, with two broken leg bones and a broken rotator cuff.