Sentences with phrase «many modern animals»

Then came the Cambrian explosion, which gave rise to a huge diversity of life forms: most types of modern animals appear in the fossil record from this era.

A professor of ethics at Princeton University, Singer is the author of Animal Liberation (1975), which instigated the modern animal rights movement.

As I re-read the story it seemed obvious it couldn't really be history — or if it was, it was completely unverifiable: Eve is created from Adam's rib; a snake converses with and tempts Eve; God puts a very desirable fruit tree in the garden then commands man not to eat it; eating this fruit causes all the world's pain and suffering; God curses Adam, Eve, their descendents, and the earth; «every living thing» is destroyed by a worldwide flood; all our modern animals descend from the originals on Noah's Ark; and so on.

There is a need to start short - term courses on farm management practices, modern animal management practices, etc. for milk producers, with adequate grants from government to institutes providing such courses.

Australian agricultural industry groups are bracing for attacks from animal activists globally following the recent release of an explosive documentary which claims to «expose the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture».

Microbiologist Lance Price at the ScienceWriters2011 conference in Flagstaff on October 16 explained that modern animal production methods are virtually designed to create antibiotic resistant bacteria.

Second, although cyanide is lethal to modern animals, it has a convenient tendency to self - assemble into larger molecules.

It is only because we can match developmental events to evolutionary events, only because we now have both the fossil record, which shows us the path that evolution has taken, and the developmental record of modern animals in extraordinary detail, that we can begin to link the two.

For each of the nearly 100 dinosaur skulls he studied, Mallon measured 12 characteristics that are known to relate to diet in modern animals.

In the unlikely event that scientists could reconstruct a complete dinosaur genome, she doubts that any modern animal could produce an egg capable of growing a dinosaur embryo.

«If she was working with modern animals, there wouldn't be anything special about what she was doing,» says Horner.

«It could allow some of the molecular and genetic studies done on modern animals to be potentially used on dinosaur samples.»

These proxies seemed to indicate that oxygen concentrations in the oceans rose in several steps, approaching today's sea - surface concentrations at the start of the Cambrian, around 541 million years ago — just before more - modern animals suddenly appeared and diversified.

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.

Ancient animals, however, might give us an insight into how modern animals might fare with our predicted climate change.

It's a pattern found in many modern animals dwelling in land and sea.

Before we can understand what past climate change meant for more animals — «there needs to be a lot more work on modern animals,» Secord says.

In fact, Martin argues that «the evolutionary paths taken by most modern animals, whether these are crocodilians, turtles, birds, lungfish, amphibians, earthworms, insects, crustaceans, or mammals, are connected to their burrowing ancestors.»

«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.

These new findings suggest modern animals had a common ancestor with a surprisingly complex genome, whose descendants subsequently kept or lost various genes.

In their first paper, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology in 1997, Schweitzer, Horner, and colleagues reported that spectroscopy and chemical analyses of extracts from a T. rex femur suggested preserved proteins, including a form of collagen abundant in modern animal bones.

In modern animals, the presence of a «cervical rib» (a rib attached to a cervical vertebra) is an unusual event, and is cause for further investigation.

Small fossils about 220 million years old found along steep red slopes in Colorado represent a near - relative of modern animals called caecilians, says vertebrate paleontologist Adam Huttenlocker of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

As the authors explain, «This period, the Pliocene, is critical to understand the origins and evolution of Australia's unique modern animals.

Another approach could be to use a donor egg from a modern animal but with its DNA replaced by that of the extinct animal.

Dr Ville Friman, from the University of York's Department of Biology, said: «In modern animal husbandry, animals are reared in high density to maximize food production.

After taking measurements, Ryan compared Rooneyia's ear canals with those of modern animals to determine how it would have moved in life.

Scales are visible to the naked eye; more remarkable, electron microscopy reveals double - layered skin similar to that of modern animals, and possibly even the outlines of cells.

Witmer continues to dissect modern animals, looking for tiny, signature bone structures that they might share with fossil dinosaurs.

His idea sounds simple enough: Look hard at the bones of modern animals to study the tiny marks that soft tissues make on bones, and see if such subtle marks can be found on dinosaur fossils as well.

The rib, he and his colleagues report, absorbed infrared light in wavelengths that match those of collagen from modern animals.

«Lethiscus also has broad impacts on evolutionary biology and people doing molecular clock reproductions of modern animals,» says Anderson.

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

But genetic studies of modern animals had suggested that all of these creatures evolved from a single - celled ancestor that lived at least 100 million years before that, leaving a huge gap between the estimated origin of animals and the appearance of the earliest known animal fossils.

Kooteninchela deppi is helping researchers to piece together more information about life on Earth during the Cambrian period when nearly all modern animal types emerged.

This means that all the key genetic prerequisites for modern animals...

Since fossils in general, and dinosaur fossils in particular, are rare and very different from modern animals, it's lucky that humans came wired to spot the unusual, and collect the oddities that resembled ancient life forms long before there was a subject called palaeontology.

The findings, published online today in the journal Current Biology, resolve «Darwin's dilemma»: the sudden appearance of a plethora of modern animal groups in the fossil record during the early Cambrian period.

The main reason researchers thought otherwise, he says, is because Ediacaran organisms were soft bodied but are often preserved in coarse sand in a way that modern animals are not.

Researchers have access to state - of - the - art core facilities, including: genomics and next generation sequencing, bioinformatics, proteomics, advanced optical microscopy, FACS, high - throughput screening, tissue engineering and a modern animal house.

Normally it is possible to deduce the feeding habits of fossil animals on the basis of the shape and wear of their teeth — however, the teeth of the Giant Sloth are not comparable to those of modern animals.

Parasites and disease are a huge component of the lives of modern animals, dinosaurs would be no different, and now we have another small insight into how such interactions might have looked.

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

Perhaps the most significant and still contentious finding from the Doushantuo fossils is evidence of bilateral symmetry, a key characteristic in many modern animals.

Applying these strictures to modern animals is fairly straightforward, since these two characteristics are restricted only to members of the clade Ruminantia, which is the subgroup of even - toed hoofed mammals that includes the cattle, goats, sheep, antelopes, deer, pronghorn, mouse deer, giraffe (Zivotofsky 2000) and okapi (a clade is a taxonomic group whose members share a common ancestry; in this case it does not have a formal associated Linnaean level, such as family or order).

Studies of modern animal teeth and jaws helps inform about wear patterns on fossils.

Modern animal feeding operations also often put very large numbers of cows, chickens, or other animals in close quarters, sometimes in a single building.

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Vivid, moment - by - moment descriptions of life in the field will draw readers into this biography of pioneering environmentalist Schaller, a founder of the modern animal conservation movement.

Modern animal training these days is for the most part based on the rewarding world of positive reinforcement.