Sentences with phrase «lichens growing»

If life exists on Mars, it is most likely to be in the form of bacteria buried deep in the planet's permafrost or lichens growing within rocks, say scientists from NASA.

One way to see if air has lots of oxygen in it is to look for signs of lichen growing on tree limbs.

If this was simply the remnant of a much thicker cap that eroded during HTO we don't have to accept present temperatures as higher than Holocene, but if the cap was limited to a maximum of 70m it's rather obvious that temperatures in this location are now warmer than at any period since the moss / lichen grew.

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The South American lichen species often grows in curly masses about the size of a fist.

Instead, bare and sometimes rocky land can only support low growing plants such as moss, heath, and lichen.

Amborella lives naturally only in New Caledonia, in a moist environment, with a lot of lichens and other organisms growing on its surfaces.

► Lightning strikes a lighthouse and we see a close - up of gel spreading and becoming larger at the base of the building where a small fire burns briefly; a wall of gel rises like a curtain from a jungle forest into the sky, making noises like muttering and muffled roars as we hear that the phenomenon is spreading and destroying all species on Earth; five scientists armed with military rifles enter the area to find trees that have become covered with flowers, woody plants have grown into human shapes covered with blossoms, the bodies of three missing soldiers have been engulfed with vines, moss, and lichens that have grown out of the bodies and the head of a soldier is found in a path (we see no blood or facial expression).

The deep redwood canopy is a vertical Eden filled with mosses, lichens, spotted salamanders, hanging gardens of ferns, and thickets of huckleberry bushes, all growing out of massive trunk systems that have fused and formed flying buttresses, sometimes carved into blackened chambers, hollowed out by fire, called «fire caves.»

Commonly known as map lichen, rhizocarpon geographicum grows approximately 1 cm every 100 years.

The tower extension is clad with agricultural cement board, usually used on cowsheds, which they will smother with yoghurt and cow pat to encourage mosses and lichens to grow.

(d) Clonal black spruce, ca 450 year old, growing in a lichen - heath tundra site.

(c) Clonal black spruce, ca 100 year old, growing in a lichen - heath tundra site.

The thickness of the ice on frozen rivers is much reduced, and trees are starting to grow on the tundra, affecting the ability of reindeer to dig in the snow for lichen in winter.

Twenty - six of these chemicals are on an EU hit list, including isoeugenol, a floral - smelling compound in many high - street brands and oak moss, a lichen which grows on trees.

Yes, it is 2011, soon to be 2012, and the Dinosaurs, the most successful species to ever populate the earth (for approximately five hundred million years) were not extinguished due to their inability to evolve and grow with natural changing conditions, but were simply eliminated by a one - in - a-million extra-terrestrial event over a short period of time (one to three years), as were all forms of sun reliant life with the exception of a few ocean dwelling species, subsurface ground dwelling worms, plant life like lichens and other mindless species able to lie dormant for extended periods of time, as well as nocturnal, ground dwelling little rodents that ate roots, dead or alive, (from which we so - called superior life forms evolved).

Over the course of the garden's existence, these lichen - encrusted pine trees and twisted branches, which came from the National Trust's seaside property, Formby, will be smothered in living fungi, grown by the artists in a glasshouse behind you.