Sentences with phrase «lived millions of years»

The ability to find and study the remains of animals, plants and other organisms that lived millions of years ago is extraordinary, and as technology has improved over the past few decades, scientists have realized that fossils contain more information about the stories of extinct life forms than even Charles Darwin could have imagined.

The find is the first to suggest the earliest complex animals on Earth — which may be related to many of today's animal species — lived millions of years earlier than was previously known.

The study, published today in Nature Ecology & Evolution, analysed data of 2415 species of mammals alive today using computer algorithms to reconstruct the likely activity patterns of their ancient ancestors who lived millions of years ago.

The molars are big — larger than those of any recent humans and within the range of pre-human Australopithecines who lived millions of years ago.

To identify the source of carbon during the PETM, the researchers studied the remains of tiny marine creatures called foraminifera, the shells of which shed light on the environmental conditions when they lived millions of years ago.

Many people are under the false impression that carbon dating proves that dinosaurs and other extinct animals lived millions of years ago.

They both evolved from a common ancestor who lived MILLIONS of YEARS ago.

you can't have absolute science that demands a logical and tangible cause (which no one has the right answer for because no one lived millions of years ago) and then also believe that God exists though you have never seen proof of His existence.

HUMANS living millions of years ago were endurance runners, but how did they do it without air - cushioned soles?

Once dismissed by most paleontologists as mere curiosities, trackways are increasingly being recognized as vital pieces of evidence that record otherwise unknowable details of daily life millions of years ago.

Not exact matches

The EPA's study found that between 25,000 to 30,000 new wells were drilled each year between 2011 and 2014 and that 9.4 million Americans live within a mile of a fracking site.

Now, 14 years after inheriting her father's semi-successful company, she took in $ 10 million last year by overseeing a half - billion dollars of hotel construction and living the life she has always wanted.

Ferdinand's murder sent the Great Powers into a war that would last five years and cost the lives of 10 million troops.

World War I, which ended 99 years ago on Saturday, took the lives of about 40 million people and is considered by many to be the first total, industrial war.

Hugh Evans was 2 - years - old when Bob Geldof's charity concert Live Aid beamed images of starving people in north Africa around the world in 1985, raising # 30 million ($ 40.3 million) to help them.

The Super Bowl draws TV's biggest live audience of the year, and advertisers paid more than $ 5 million for 30 second commercials.

«My brain ended up deciding that instead of trying to avenge my son's life, I wanted to give life as a result,» says Gawdat, who published his book Solve for Happy in January of this year and has given several talks on the subject through a campaign he launched to make 10 million people happy.

Bankwest today launched its new charity, which will raise funds for community initiatives, as well as a scholarship program that aims to better the lives of Western Australians, and has pledged $ 1 million per year to the charity for five years.

If someone guesses all of the teams correctly, he promises to pay them $ 1 million every year for the rest of his or her life.

The month after his appointment to the helm of Live Nation Artists, the company announced a 10 - year, US$ 120 - million 360 - style agreement with Madonna.

Characterized by sharp beaks and flamboyant horns and frills, these herbivores almost all lived in what is now Western North America right at the end of the Cretaceous period, 100 to 66 million years ago.

«They say, you guys basically saved me a half million dollars and a year of my life.»

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear Young's case and ultimately rule on what accommodations employers must make under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, a decision that could touchthe lives of the 68 million working women in the U.S. and the 62 % of new moms in the last year who were part of the workforce.

DiCostanzo notes that he and Sherry, now in their 60s, are tackling the most ambitious entrepreneurial venture of their lives, one they believe can hit $ 100 million in five years.

Those 21.6 million people represent the highest share of young adults living at home in at least 40 years.

The authors of the report examined several local drone ordinances established in recent years and discovered that 135 localities in 31 states have passed drone rules that impact over 30 million people living in those areas.

For a 110,000 barrel per day mine, each additional billion spent on start - up capital translates to about $ 525 - $ 560 billion million fewer taxes and royalties (in today's dollars) over the 40 year life of the project.

CEO Keller Rinaudo says this type of technology is critical since the «inability to deliver life - saving medicines to the people who need them the most causes millions of preventable deaths each year.»

Another year, it was a $ 51 million prize focused on saving the lives of women and newborns during birth in the developing world.

For Reynolds, who has spent five years and some $ 4.5 million, including most of his own savings, on his quest to change lives, do - or - die time is fast approaching.

The standalone application has now become integrated into Twitter's own app, and in its first year, Periscope saw over 200 million broadcasts created, with over 110 years of live video watched daily.

As he has since 2014, Warren Buffett offered $ 1 million every year for life to the person who could correctly predict the outcomes of all games through the Sweet 16 (this year the prize rose to $ 2 million if a Nebraska team took home the trophy).

With Starbucks's growth and more than 1 million active duty members of the U.S. military transitioning to civilian life in the coming years, Starbucks sees the commitment as a strategic form of outreach to the military community.

As a reporter at CNBC Make It, I've covered some of the most incredible — including a 28 - year - old whose company has made millions buying things at Walmart and reselling them on Amazon and an entrepreneur who started selling board games out of his living room.

For millions of years we lived by the earth's natural rhythms rather than the rigid schedule of the clock.

Next year, Life Is Good expects to throw 23 pumpkin festivals on a single fall day, with the goal of raising more than $ 1 million.

The mine is expected to produce 54 million carats from 35 million tonnes of ore over its projected 12 - year life.

He documented some of Facebook's do - good moments in the last year, like its part in the #metoo movement and the March For Our Lives event, and helping raise $ 20 million for victims of hurricane Harvey.

The company expects to earn 75 percent of its income from video by the end of next year and was paid over $ 3 million by Facebook to set the standard for live broadcasts.

Forty years ago UNICEF figured out that promoting simple, low - cost interventions like hand - washing and breastfeeding could save millions of lives, and its mission has helped children in more than 190 countries and territories.

Present life: CEO and chairman of the board of Tootsie Roll Industries, a $ 397 - million, 104 - year - old candy company headquartered in Chicago

Over the past decade and a half, they and the major insurers have snapped up most of the biggest properties — OMERS bought Brookfield Place in Toronto four years ago, for example, while London Life and Great - West Life jointly spent $ 382 million on Calgary's Gulf Canada Square in 2007 — and today are believed to own almost 90 % of downtown Toronto's commercial space.

That number tops the previous record of 1.4 million comments, which was set in 2004 when Janet Jackson experienced an alleged wardrobe malfunction on live - television during that year's Super Bowl half - time show.

Another devaluation could trigger a jump in inflation if it is implemented early this year, economists say, a major concern in the country of 90 million where millions live hand to mouth.

As social media and ecommerce become increasingly enmeshed in our lives, the opportunities for them to interact with and bolster each other are innumerable, considering that the average person spends around an hour and 40 minutes browsing social media every day, and the number of internet shoppers in the US will reach 217 million this year.

2016 saw female founders launch innovative companies and raise millions to help them grow, while startups in their second or third year of life began gaining ground.

If these shallow pools existed at least 700 million years earlier — or when the oceans of Mars began to evaporate — they may have bridged a crucial gap for microbial life on the planet.

Strategies to live more safely in such an environment abound, and no wonder: The journal Nature recently found that air pollution leads to the premature death of three million people every year, mainly in Asia.

China's entire music industry generated $ 480 million in revenue from live and recorded music in 2016, PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates, a small - sounding figure thanks to years of rampant piracy: later data aren't yet available.

Expanding community health worker programs could save more than 3.6 million lives each year, according to a study by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.