Sentences with phrase «necked giraffes»

Saldaha Bay is the most prolific source of fossils thus far uncovered anywhere in Africa — bones speak of another world in which there were both fresh water animals and land animals like giant otters, giant pandas, short - necked giraffes and sabre - toothed cats, a rhino from which the white rhino is descended and the «true elephant», an ancestor of the woolly mammoth.

Over long periods, long - necked giraffes survived and flourished.

Prothero writes: «Until recently, there was no fossil evidence linking the long - necked giraffes to their short - necked relatives.

If a duck billed platypus is demonstrably not evolving, why not a feathery one - off dinosaur or a ditto half - necked giraffe?

To eat a spider, the long - necked giraffe assassin bug has to snap web threads without being noticed — and avoid being devoured itself

Around 5.1 million years ago, fascinating and now extinct animals like sabre - toothed cats, wolverines and short - necked giraffe roamed the west coast of South Africa.

Not exact matches

Researchers compiled the genetic instruction book, or genome, for both the giraffe and the okapi, its short - necked closest living...

A short - necked relative of today's giraffe was likely the most massive cud - chewing mammal ever to stroll Earth, a new study suggests.

Researchers compiled the genetic instruction book, or genome, for both the giraffe and the okapi, its short - necked closest living relative.

Substituting the giraffe's FGFRL1 gene into mouse is not expected to make a long - necked mouse.

WHILE giraffes gracefully browse the treetops, their long - necked predecessors, the sauropod dinosaurs, would never have done so.

Commonly referred to as the Samburu «Special 5,» they include the Grevy's zebra, reticulated giraffe, Somali ostrich, Beisa oryx, and the gerenuk — a long - necked antelope that feeds while standing on its hind feet.

Here you are guaranteed close encounters with Samburu's animals, including herds of elephants, buffaloes and zebras, which come daily to drink - together with the rarer «northern species» of reticulated giraffe, Beisa oryx, long - necked gerenuk antelope and Somali ostrich.

So as well as searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, a relevant academic exercise might also be to look for extraterrestrial giraffes or similar long - necked creatures, would it not?