Sentences with phrase «like modern animals»

«If it had a physiology like modern animals we would then say that this animal was warm - blooded like a bird or mammal,» says Showers.

Not exact matches

Entry to the upper floors — which include rooms dedicated to vintage and modern renderings of the Gucci logo, items emblazoned with Gucci's recurring motifs (like the horsebit and the red - and - green stripes), and Gucci's exploration of the iconography of animals and gardens — costs 8 euros, with half of that donated to restoration projects around Florence.

The evolutionists call the animal a «transitional species» and a human ancestor even though it has a head exactly like a modern - day ape.

The theory of societies, like modern general systems theory, pictures a world made up of societies within societies (systems within systems) That is, societies do not just line up side by side like mosaics — they form «nested hierarchies» that go from subatomic particles through cells to animal bodies, or through stars to galaxies.

Gelatin - rich foods, from bone broths to head cheese to foods like pig's feet and ox tails, were a large part of a traditional diet Our ancestors relished every part of the animal, and just as they ate organ meats that most modern Americans now spurn, they also ate all the gelatin - rich bony and cartilaginous bits of the animal.

Whether you'd like to match your baby's high chair to the more modern furnishings in your home, or you just... MORE don't care for pastels and animals on your baby gear, these modern high chairs will look great and provide a fashionable place for baby to dine.

Using genetic data from modern animals to figure out what went on in the past is like flipping to the end of a novel and reading only the ending; it shows how things ended up but doesn't indicate how the story started or unfolded.

The results showed a statistically significant number of genes associated with domestication which overlapped between domestic animals and modern humans, but not with their wild equals, like Neanderthals.

The authors suggest that human activity may even be driving a similar Lilliput - like pattern in the modern world, as more and more large animals go extinct because of hunting, habitat destruction, and climate change.

The researchers looked at past associations between the threat of extinction and the ecological traits like species habitat zone, and examined the same associations in modern marine animals.

Like Medieval alchemists who searched for an elixir that could turn base metals into gold, biology's modern alchemists have learned how to use oocytes to turn normal skin cells into valuable stem cells, and even whole animals.

This approach doesn't produce genetically identical copies of extinct animals, but rather modern versions of an animal engineered to look and behave like its extinct relatives.

Their footprint trails veer in unison, implying that the animals turned together as a herd, somewhat like modern elephants or migrating geese.

The late Proterozoic — the time period beginning less than a billion years ago following this remarkable chapter of sustained low levels of oxygen — was strikingly different, marked by extreme climatic events manifest in global - scale glaciation, indications of at least intervals of modern - like oxygen abundances, and the emergence and diversification of the earliest animals.

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.

Modern animals with similar body types typically prefer to latch on to a hard substrate, like stone or, when available, glass.

Lead author, Dr. Stephan Lautenschlager of Bristol's School of Earth Sciences said: «With modern computer technology, such as CT scanning and digital visualisation, we now have powerful tools at our disposal, with which we can get a step closer to restore fossil animals to their life - like condition.»

There may be some truth to both men's viewpoints: The first animals may well have looked more like a sac of mesomycetozoeans than like any modern multicellular creature.

Within a mere 6 million years, they had evolved into animals that looked like modern giraffes, though the modern species only turned up around 1 million years ago.

Dr Bishop is interested in understanding what extinct animals were like as living creatures, through approaches tested and validated on modern animals.

By studying the microscopic structure of the eggs, Dr. Varricchio and I were able to determine that the animal buried its eggs in a vegetation mound or nested in a humid environment - more like some reptiles than most open - nesting modern birds.

The museum website concedes that «Neanderthals were probably less brutish and more like modern humans than commonly portrayed,» and that they were, «sophisticated toolmakers and even prepared animal hides, which they used as clothing.»

Gelatin - rich foods, from bone broths to head cheese to foods like pig's feet and ox tails, were a large part of a traditional diet Our ancestors relished every part of the animal, and just as they ate organ meats that most modern Americans now spurn, they also ate all the gelatin - rich bony and cartilaginous bits of the animal.

The cause of heart disease is not animal fats and cholesterol but rather a number of factors inherent in modern diets, including excess consumption of vegetables oils and hydrogenated fats; excess consumption of refined carbohydrates in the form of sugar and white flour; mineral deficiencies, particularly low levels of protective magnesium and iodine; deficiencies of vitamins, particularly of vitamin C, needed for the integrity of the blood vessel walls, and of antioxidants like selenium and vitamin E, which protect us from free radicals; and, finally, the disappearance of antimicrobial fats from the food supply, namely, animal fats and tropical oils.52 These once protected us against the kinds of viruses and bacteria that have been associated with the onset of pathogenic plaque leading to heart disease.

The premise is that all animal foods — ranging from Chicken McNuggets to a fillet of wild - caught salmon — are responsible for modern ailments like heart disease and cancer.

So like our true paleo ancestors the best approach in today's world is likely a plant based diet with small servings of wild seafood and / or grass fed bison or game meat that is very close in composition to the animals that true paleos ate versus the fat and pesticide laden, nutrient - deficient, modern livestock meat and farmed seafood.

As for the CGI animals, Peyton gives them plenty of opportunities to wreak havoc, although at least one or two of those sequences feels better in conception than execution: though the large - scale destruction is all masterfully rendered — and it must be noted, brutally violent for a PG - 13 movie — he like many other modern filmmakers gets too close to the action, mistaking incomprehensibility for claustrophobia, and seems either unaware of or uninterested in even the basic physics of gravity, falling objects, and so on.

Though the National Lampoon is no longer in circulation, its legacy is undeniable: From Saturday Night Live to The Onion to, of course, films like Animal House and Vacation, it's had major impact on modern American comedy.

The impact of their magazine and movies like «Animal House» and «Caddyshack» can undeniably be felt in almost all modern comedy, but certainly in the quirky style of writer / actor / director David Wain.

She also visits modern gardens, farms, and labs to discover the science behind extraordinary plants like one - ton pumpkins, a truly black petunia, a biofuel grass that grows twelve feet tall, and the world's only photosynthesizing animal.

From modern imaging equipment, like digital radiography and sonograms, to a real - time laboratory, we have the diagnostic tools that can literally save an animal's life.

Our goal as a team is to provide complete animal care services including world class Veterinary diagnostics, progressive surgical and dental techniques, while utilizing the very best in modern equipment and procedures, but with a friendly family like environment, where you and your pets will be OUR extended family.

In modern scanning systems like the ones North Elm Animal Hospital has on - site and uses on our canine patients, the sound beam sweeps through the body many times per second.

Like humans, the animal body was never built for the chemical - laden food of modern society.

In modern scanning systems like the ones North Elm Animal Hospital has on - site and uses on our feline patients, the sound beam sweeps through the body many times per second.

Farm animals have the same emotional capacity as traditional companions like dogs and cats, yet modern cruelty laws do not apply to them.

Through stories like this, you can easily reinforce the fascination with modern day reptiles and show how they link in the history of animal life back to those magical prehistoric times.

Like a modern day James Herriot, Allen Schoen evokes the wonder of the human - animal bond and illustrates how animals anoint our humanity by providing companionship, unconditional love, protection, and nurturance.

This is the main start of Aloy's journey as she ventures through a world that features glimpses of modern society that's been taken over by nature and viscous animal - like machines that stalk its surface.

Part retail sim, part Animal Crossing - style community experience, Mineko's Night Market is like a warm - hearted modern translation of Enid Blyton's Enchanted Forest.

If Houseago's works resonate, it is because they encompass a wide range of influences: the formal language of sculpture throughout the ages (from ancient to early modern), mythology, the natural world of plants and animals, African tribal art, cartoon imagery and contemporary music and culture (the title of the exhibition contains a fragment from the lyrics of «Wild Child» by Lou Reed and a reference to James Taylor's «Like A Circle Round the Sun»).

Edweard Muybridge's animal locomotion series showing how bodies move through time and space led to the birth of modern cinema, which then strung together frames of grid - like imagery.

And not just the land — I like to experience wild animals as my peers and feel something in common with the people who lived here before modern times.»

There was an episode of Modern Family where Phil said something like «Ok Google, play a video of a gazelle» (I can't remember the exact animal or video, so could have been something else), and it started playing on their tv, and my Home also responded but I didn't have Chromecast hooked up yet.