Sentences with phrase «life on the island of»

The pygmy sloth, the smallest of the sloths that only lives on an island of the Caribbean coast of Panama, is critically endangered.

MuleSoft was the brainchild of founder Ross Mason, who began it as a small open - source project in 2003 when he and his wife were living on the island of Malta.

They were a prehistoric species that lived on the island of Crete during the Pleistocene epoch.

Over a 16 - year period, about half of the orangutans living on the island of Borneo were lost as a result of changes in land cover.

Smaller and more demure than their raucous American cousins, crows living on the island of New Caledonia have a knack for fashioning twigs into hooks.

An international team of researchers has discovered a new family of wasps living on the islands of New Zealand (see image).

It was living on the island of Flores at least 38,000 years ago.

Because people must have traveled across the islands of Southeast Asia to get to Australia, the date suggests humans were moving through Indonesia at the same time as Homo floresiensis, the tiny extinct human nicknamed «the hobbit,» was living on the island of Flores; the last date for that species is 60,000 years ago, although so far there's no evidence of encounters between humans and hobbits.

This is a photograph of the greater bamboo lemur is a small cat sized primate living on the island of Madagascar and is considered to be one of the most endangered primates on Earth.

Homo floresiensis, also known as «Hobbit Humans,» lived on the island of Flores in Indonesia.

H. floresiensis lived on the island of Flores, however, so isolation at that location could help to explain how it remained a distinct species of human.

One healthy diet is called the Okinawa Way, based on the diet of the people who live on the island of Okinawa.

Joe has lived on the island all of his life, and is still close to his childhood friend, Helen (Crystal Bernard), who runs the lunch counter in the airport.

I had always thought that I lived on an island of one, but I came to learn that teachers from around the globe were not only encouraged by my accounts, but were experiencing many of the same highs and lows.

My toddler son loves Thomas and Friends, the show about the helpful train who lives on the island of Sodor and has adventures there.

Our flash fiction challenge winner is Adele Threadgold, who is living on the island of Tenerife, teaching English and doing church ministry.

Hurricane insurance quotes are based primarily on the amount of coverage you are purchasing and your relative risk of damage, which will be greater for those who live on the island of Kauai than in other parts of Hawaii.

Greece About Blog ACT Animal Care Thassos has been set up by a group of people living on the island of Thassos.

(especially cats...) I stumbled into assisting while living on the island of Saipan, and discovered a passion for providing the most compassionate care possible, and advocating for the safety and well being of animals through rescue and community outreach.

Of course there is also the cultural side of life on the island of the Gods: Balinese dance, artwork and architecture give the island its unique fascination.

Living on the island of Ambergris Caye can be a little pricier than the mainland, especially when it comes to fresh produce.

A huge incentive for people is the fact that life on the island of Ambergris Caye is much more affordable than in the United States and that this is one of the least expensive Caribbean islands that people may vacation in or retire to.

Conch Creative photographer, Maya Papovic, is an internationally published, multi - award winning wedding photographer, living on the island of Ambergris Caye, Belize in Central America.

Experience the life on the island of Nusa Lembongan.

Our selection of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 bedroom villas in Batubelig will enable you to experience tropical living on the island of Bali.

The native people living on the Islands of San Blas call themselves Kuna's or Guna's.

noah who already lives on the island of kauai and is going to help me get on my feet and established!

The population of Trinidad and Tobago combined is approximately 1.36 million people with a little over 60,000 of the total living on the island of Tobago.

For those of us expats living on the Island of Ambergris Caye hurricane season in Belize an important weather related topic that comes up yearly.

You'll experience the trials and tribulations of women as they live on the island of Bhikkhuni, a sanctuary for those afflicted by a peculiar condition called the V - virus.

Also Aether Foundation, which is a group of Pokémon preservationists who live on the island of Alola, has been revealed.

He has lived on the island of Vinalhaven, Maine (more than an hour from the continent by ferry) since he lost his lease on a five - floor New York studio.

Jaar lived on the island of Martinique between the ages of 6 and 16.

I read that as saying that unless someone has lived on the island of ivory towers, they don't know enough to make a definitive statement about scientific malfeasance done by those that do live there.

Invasive rats have cut a swathe through the birds living on the island of South Georgia, but a decade - long project has now eradicated every last rat

Like many species living on the island of Borneo, Miller's grizzled langurs have been threatened for decades from poaching and the loss of their habitat due to slash and burn agriculture.

It was bad enough that this irreplaceable species, Raphus cucullatus, was quickly driven to extinction in the 17th century thanks to man's folly — the flightless birds that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean were last seen in 1662 — but the poor things have also suffered the fate of a maligned legacy.

My host family lives on the island of Oahu.

Though life here can be precarious at times, especially in stormy weather, living on an island of reeds also has its advantages.

Not exact matches

Wes Anderson's unique brand of storytelling is perfectly captured in this look at a pair of youngsters in love and how the adults on the small island they live on become frantic trying to find them when they run off together.

Known for its long stretches of white sandy beach, Negril is one of the island's hot spots, as is the area's not - so - creatively - named Seven Mile Beach; by day, revelers sip on rum punch and frolic in the warm waters, and my night they drink more rum punch and dance to live reggae bands and steel drum performances.

Thiel, who also supports the idea of creating autonomous islands on which people could live and create their own laws, said he is in favor of a bi-partisan bill called the «Intimate Privacy Protection Act,» which would make it illegal to distribute explicit private images without a person's consent, and would involve criminal penalties for those who profit from doing so.

Back in 2001, the native Vancouverite made a living renovating and reselling Gulf Island houses and cabins, but property markets there and throughout British Columbia merely plodded along, while prices on the islands south of the border were exploding.

It's been two months since Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico on Sept. 20, and daily life is still a grind on the island with a new slate of problems for residents on the ground and scant progress on the horizon.

Australia boasts one of world's highest life - expectancy rates, with the island - nation's inhabitants spending more than $ 8 billion a year on health and wellness.

The story itself, based on the life of Jordan Belfort, co-founder of infamous Long Island, N.Y. - based brokerage house Stratton Oakmont, lends itself to some of that talk.

He lived down the road from my family on the North Shore of Long Island, and his grandchildren played with my sister and me.

China had said the live - fire drills would happen on Wednesday off the city of Quanzhou, in between two groups of islands close to China's coast but which Taiwan has controlled since 1949, when defeated Nationalist forces fled to the island at the end of the Chinese civil war.

In 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake decimated Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people, destroying vital infrastructure, and changing the lives of everyone who lived on the island.

«Catastrophic flooding is occurring on the island, especially in areas of mountainous terrain, and everyone in Puerto Rico should continue to follow advice from local officials to avoid these life - threatening flooding conditions.»