Sentences with phrase «new animal species»

There's a widespread notion that climate change encourages the proliferation of new animal species.

Gene splicing has resulted in new animal species, while humans have become nearly extinct.

The screenplay (by «Sahara's» Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer and former porn - flick writer Gregory Poirier) has numerous obstacles pop up to slow Sonia and Travis in their quest to go back in time and fix the future, mostly in the form of dangerous new animal species like the aforementioned monkeysauruses.

Researchers have found seven new animal species living along the Southwest Indian Ridge, 3,000 metres beneath the surface of the ocean, in an area targeted for deep - sea mining.

For this reason, marine biology and microbiology researchers are working to discover new animal species and organisms, all the while further expanding the depths of geography and science.

Marshall points out that the relatively fast appearance of new animal species in this period is not driven by new genes, but rather by evolving from existing genes through «rewiring» of the gene regulatory networks (GRNs).

Not exact matches

Now he reviews a new book on ethics and writes,» [The author] agrees with what now seems to be a near - consensus among philosophers that «speciesism» - the view that we are entitled to take theinterests of animals less seriously than we take human interests, simply because humans are members of our species - is not a morally defensible position.»

This new species belongs to a group of animals called synapsids.

(Ask God which one was the first Adam???) 12s) no new large plant or animal species show up in the fossil record after 100,000 years ago.

And quite apart from humans, nature itself, we believe, has produced new species of plants and animals, new environments, and other important new facts.15 To interpret this use of the word «creativity»» from the standpoint of our metaphysics, we may claim that the production of such novelty» has to do exclusively (with the exception to be discussed below) with characterization.

12) no new large plant or animal species show 12) God rests.

Endangered Species Chocolates» debut into pouches enlarges the iconic animals to boost on - shelf attention while exploring a new look for the brand.

Now, on the 10th annual Endangered Species Day, Shedd, Lincoln Park Zoo, Brookfield Zoo and the 226 other accredited members of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) are harnessing their collective knowledge and resources in a new initiative, AZA SAFE: Saving Animals From Extinction.

In January they reported a host of unusual animals living near the vent, including a seven - armed sea star, a «ghostly white» octopus, and a new species of yeti crab, its underside covered in hairs.

Two new public television shows explore the connection between our species and the rest of the animal kingdom, with surprising results.

But because this fossil only preserves the animal's gills and no additional identifying features like teeth, it can not be given a new name or reunited with an existing species.

Resurrecting long - dead species, bioengineering friendlier animals, and creating robot creatures made of artificial tissue: These are some of the concepts proposed by prominent zoo directors, animal behaviorists, conservationists, and architects at a first - ever symposium about the future of zoos, held in Buffalo, New York, this winter.

The changes shown through 2050 could lead to lost habitat, the isolation of some species and the rise of «dispersal barriers» — like a wall of new development that prevents plants and animals from migrating.

Dr Rhonda Snook, a co-author of the study and Reader in the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, added: «Understanding how new species form remains one of the most enduring problems in evolutionary biology.

Today's frogs, comprising more than 6,700 known species, as well as many other animal and plant species are under severe stress around the world because of habitat destruction, human population explosion and climate change, possibly heralding a new period of mass extinction.

Larsson is at the forefront of merging paleontology and molecular biology in an effort to connect major evolutionary changes — the development of new species and new characteristics, new shapes and structures, new kinds of animals — to changes in specific genes and in how those genes are regulated.

According to herpetologist and co-author David Wake, a University of California, Berkeley professor of the graduate school and a curator of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, new frog species likely radiated rapidly throughout the world because so many environmental niches were available after the animals occupying them disappeared.

New research published in ASM's Applied and Environmental Microbiology shows that pathogens can also jump the species barrier to move from humans to animals.

The crew found the three new species of Loricifera (jellyfish - like animals less than a millimeter long) in the sediment of L'Atalante Basin, a zone of salty, oxygen - depleted water at the bottom of the Mediterranean.

Dr Vallejo - Marin said: «The fact that the new polyploid involves a non-native plant is poignant, given the fact that human activities are transporting all sorts of animal and plant species well beyond their native habitats.

The ugly will include the need, for example, to brace for the ever more jarring effects of extreme weather patterns, the extinction of a huge range of animal and plant species, and the invasion into new latitudes of predators and pests.

A new study by University of Arizona biologists helps explain why different groups of animals differ dramatically in their number of species, and how this is related to differences in their body forms and ways of life.

In a 2011 paper published in PLoS ONE, Evans, Hughes and Simon Elliot (of the Department of Animal Biology at the Federal University of Vicosa in Brazil) described four new species of the Ophiocordyceps fungus that were found in just a small section of rainforest in Brazil's southeastern state of Minas Gerais.

Whether secondary forest can help avoid large - scale species extinctions also depends on the extent to which animals and plants accustomed to old - growth forests can successfully recolonise new areas.

In simple terms, the overkill hypothesis states that modern man exterminated many of the large animal species on arrival in the new continents.

This species common name is the «pocket shark,» though those in the field of classifying animals refer to it by its scientific name Mollisquama sp., according to a new study published in the international journal of taxonomy Zootaxa.

The ambitious census was born 3 years ago, after marine biologists realized that new technologies — from sensors that can track individual fish and whales to genetic «bar code» readers that can speedily separate microscopic species — could revolutionize efforts to document the diversity, distribution, and abundance of ocean animals.

A new study shows that at least two diatom species make compounds that reduce hatching rates when eaten by tiny shrimplike animals called copepods.

To mitigate the trend and support conservation efforts, scientists at the University of Toronto (U of T) are sharing a way to predict which plants or animals may be vulnerable to the arrival of a new species.

The findings shed important new light on the kind of evolutionary tradeoffs animals must engage in to ensure the survival of their species.

Other fossils found in Mongolia also seem to belong to this new species, and further flesh out the life history of these animals.

The Wildlife Conservation Society's George Schaller talks about his new book, «A Naturalist and Other Beasts,» which covers his 50 years of documenting important large animal species in the field.

And with more than 500 species of plants and animals now threatened with extinction, New Zealand's ecologists are keen to make the most of the isolation provided by the country's 600 offshore islands.

The new study found that the species then rose from less than 90,000 animals in 1975 to an estimated 281,450 in 2008, which was roughly the carrying capacity for sea lions in the California Current Ecosystem at that time.

Rapid advances in genome sequencing have provided promising new techniques to help researchers conserve endangered species, but efforts to resurrect extinct animals raise complex legal, ethical and environmental questions, experts said at a 4 November event at AAAS.

On islands, scientists sometimes see a «sped - up» version of evolution — when animals are closed off from the rest of the world, in places where there are few or no predators or competitors, they are able to branch out into special adaptations, eventually forming new species.

The study suggests there may be «many more such instances of misidentification of animal species» — especially considering that the sunfish is relatively large and hard to miss — says Byrappa Venkatesh, a geneticist at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Singapore, who was not involved in the new research.

Hammerhead sharks, which have recently received new protections from the UN Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, are experiencing drastic population declines in excess of 90 % in several parts of world.

«Discoveries of new species of animals like Ichibengops are particularly exciting because they help us to better understand the group of animals that gave rise to mammals,» said Field Museum's Kenneth Angielczyk, PhD, associate curator of paleomammalogy.

These changes, by affecting how animals identify potential mates, are key to the creation of new species, says animal behaviorist Michael Ryan of the University of Texas, Austin.

Zooarchaeological studies of the most popular domestic animals such as cattle, sheep, goats and pigs have demonstrated repeated introductions as well as failures of new species in different regions of the world.

Yet, according to a new study involving 147 cities worldwide, surprisingly high numbers of plant and animal species persist and even flourish in urban environments — to the tune of hundreds of bird species and thousands of plant species in a single city.

Range and Virányi developed their new portrayal of dogs and wolves by giving a series of tests to socialized packs of mixed - breed dogs and wolves, four packs of each species, containing anywhere from two to six animals each.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersnew policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New JersNew Jersey.

Tuatara, like many native New Zealand animals, were threatened by habitat loss, harvesting, and introduced species such as mustelids and rats.