Sentences with phrase «like lichens»

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).

as it was previously said here, it won't prevent acidification of oceans but such molecules like sulphates are known to provoke acidic rains, and even atmospheric pollution for some sensitive organisms like lichens.

Scandinavians were dumping lots mutton and reindeer meat for a long time after Chernobyl (reindeer like lichens, lichens like Cs).

Does these look like lichens to you?

They still host hardy organisms like lichens, mosses, and nematodes that can survive the brutal conditions.

To borrow the monster's own description of indelible knowledge, Shelley's tale «clings to the mind... like a lichen on the rock.»

Not exact matches

Scandinavian firm Adolfsson & Partners used both silhouttes of artificial trees (made out of painted plywood) and real lichen to make the offices of King Studios feel like a Swedish forest.

And if you don't like the idea of vitamins from animals, Ora's Sol Food is sourced from lichen — a natural symbiosis of algae and fungi.

Lichens Hang In There Lichens like Xanthoria elegans thrive in harsh environments like Antarctica and the high peaks of the Himalayas.

With their gnarled, lichen - covered trees, rich carpets of moss and burns tumbling down rocky ravines, they look like something from Lord of the Rings.»

Like the finches observed by Darwin in the Galápagos Islands, genetically distinct subspecies of squirrels, lizards, ants, and lichens have evolved on different outposts.

Other biocrust communities, like these on the Colorado Plateau, include mosses, lichens and fungi.

Lichens stipple landscapes of granite, blanket the ground like snow, and drip from tree branches as if they were tinsel.

Lichens cover the land like paint.

Mosses and lichens absorb moisture from the air like sponges.

Because lichens mop up pollutants like sponges, St. Clair decided to see if they did so in a manner that reliably reflects the level of contaminants in their surroundings.

There are over 20,000 known lichen species, some of which are well - suited to extreme environments like deserts and arctic tundra.

It lived well over 550 million years ago, is known only through fossils and has variously been described as looking a bit like a jellyfish, a worm, a fungus and lichen.

Tried everything for various ailments, like chronic constipation, lichen sclerosis (this is absolute torment) hot flashes & feelings of dread (thought was hormone related, chronic bronchitis, allergies, chronic cough.

I really enjoy lichen - covered stone structures like these and the last time I visited I must have been about eight years old.

► 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).

It's like a good museum: on the walls of abandoned dwellings, multi-colored lichens spread thick as the impasto on a painting by the artist Jess.

The Shimmer itself looks a bit like soapy water, but the eerie creatures and unsettling flower - lichen - people tableaus were gorgeously creepy.

Lichens start breaking down the rock to form the first soil followed by plants like fireweed which fix nitrogen into the soil.

Dotting the gallery floor, like a sparse archipelago, the stones — mottled with living moss and lichens — seemed like an extemporized display of some naturalist's homemade collection.

Flashes of thick, white pigment signifying bursts of sunlight cling to the dark trunks like luminous lichen.

Sophy Naess, Soap, 2014, Soap with some longing for Greece buried in it, straw grid woven of grasses picked on «Sunridge Road,» hair from a horsehair whip, a hair - like plant from Chinatown called «Hair Moss, beads, lichen, gold mica powder, cosmetic pigments, and Eucalyptus, Tuberose, and Grapefruit fragrance oils, 8 x 10 inches.

Deciduous shrubs like dwarf birch and green alder are displacing ground cover such as lichen and moss.

LIchen like this can almost dry out completely while staying alive.