Sentences with phrase «new guinea»

The country of origin of Platydemus manokwari is New Guinea, and Australia and the Solomon Islands are the countries closest to New Guinea from which the researchers had specimens.

Platydemus manokwari, the New Guinea flatworm, consumes land snails and thus endangers endemic species.

Sailfin lizards from Sulawesi in Indonesia were originally grouped with the species from New Guinea more than 140 years ago, but the genetic survey suggests that Sulawesi dragons are a separate lineage, the team reports in the January issue of Biological Conservation.

The extremely complex geological history of New Guinea has allowed many of its animals and plants the chance to grow different enough to make a name for themselves.

The field work, conducted by Steve Richards, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, and his team, took place in the Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesian part of New Guinea.

For example, the ancient gene for HLA - A, which helps the body resist viruses like Epstein - Barr, is present in half of all modern Europeans, more than 70 percent of Asians, and up to 95 percent of people in Papua New Guinea.

Hiding among the rocks off the coast of Papua New Guinea, this crocodilefish proved dangerous when it lunged directly at the camera lens in pursuit of a blue chromis, a type of damselfish.

Launch and recovery divers help to position the 1,300 - pound IMAX 3 - D camera (seen here in its waterproof casing) about 100 feet below the surface off the south coast of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

Among spiders, including Papua New Guinea's giant wood spider (Nephila maculata), females are often much larger than males, making courtship dicey.

This gorgeously soft coral was shot in Papua New Guinea, part of a vast region known as the Coral Triangle, which encompasses the waters of Indonesia and the Philippines and extends as far as the Solomon Islands.

Bandicoots are the marsupial equivalents of rodents and rabbits that today occupy a spectrum of desert through to rainforest habitats across Australia, New Guinea and surrounding islands.

They found it in genomes from two populations, one from New Guinea and another from the nearby island of Bougainville.

Seen here in the tropical waters near Papua New Guinea, anemonefish usually live where they are born.

«It's nice to see where humans fall in relation to other species,» says Polly Wiessner, an anthropologist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City who studies violence and peacemaking in Papua New Guinea.

The Aboriginal Australians would have diverged from the Papuans 37» 000 y.a., long before New Guinea and Australia became geographically separated (10» 000 y.a.).

This species, seen here at Dinah's Beach in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea, is twice the size of its California cousin.

The study analyzes how much temperatures have increased in the region near Indonesia, and how ocean temperatures affect nearby tropical glaciers in Papua New Guinea and Borneo.

This breathtaking octopus, first discovered a few years ago, does a pinwheel - like somersault in the waters of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.

All of the New Guinea domestic pigs and those of the islands in the tropical Pacific Ocean carry DNA from those southeast Asian wild boar populations.

He knew that if there were rich mineral deposits near Papua New Guinea, there were many more of them all along the Ring of Fire, which includes a chain of underwater volcanoes winding from New Zealand to Japan.

Uplift is common along the coastlines of continents at subduction systems worldwide (e.g., Kamchatka, Japan, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea) with rates of vertical uplift accrued over the last 10,000 years being generally higher — up to ten times more than for time intervals larger than 125,000 years.

Malnic was a mining journalist who had crossed to the other side: He was sitting on a claim to a patch of volcanic seafloor off the coast of Papua New Guinea.

Jim Peterson of Monash University in Melbourne and Geoff Hope of the Australian National University in Canberra have been studying three of the four equatorial glaciers on the summit of Mount Jaya in lrian Jaya, the Indonesian portion of the island of New Guinea.

The idea that the Yupno tribe of Papua New Guinea regard time as flowing uphill could be unwarranted (2 June,...

And this sort of difference was consistent across the various states of Australia, and also evident in tests on students from Fiji and Papua New Guinea.

That was in 1997 in the Bismarck Sea off Papua New Guinea, 30 miles north of the small port of Rabaul.

They also analyzed the genomes of 27 individuals from Island Melanesia, an area including Indonesia, New Guinea, Fiji, and Vanuatu.

«We see microlith blades in the Near East going all the way to central Asia and Siberia at exactly the same time, but not in Southeast Asia and south China and New Guinea and Australia, so something changed after they reached India, and we're struggling to understand why,» he explains.

Prevalence rates exhibited substantial variation across age, sex, and countries, with rates below 5 percent for women in some African countries to more than 50 percent for men in countries such as Indonesia, Armenia, Laos, Papua New Guinea and Russia.

But in Southeast Asia and New Guinea, you're back in tropical forests, so it's possible that we don't see microliths there because of an adaptation to the environment or due to lack of suitable raw materials for making them.»

The magnitude 8 earthquake that occurred this past February along the New Guinea Trench, about 45 miles north of Biak Island in the western Pacific, came as a complete surprise to Biak inhabitants and geologists alike.

The wrinkle of mountains that runs the length of New Guinea, with peaks as high as 15,000 feet, testifies to the power of the collision.

WALKING back to camp as night fell in Papua New Guinea, Christopher Austin heard a high - pitched, insect - like call coming from the forest floor.

Legal fisheries are concentrated in the wider Caribbean region, including several of the UKs Overseas Territories, and the Indo - Pacific region, with Papua New Guinea, Nicaragua and Australia together accounting for almost three quarters of the total.

Or the extremes of the sacred fire dances performed in New Guinea, where in order to commune with their ancestors men enter a trance state wearing masks decorated with blood drawn agonisingly from their own tongues.

Diprotodon optatum was a gigantic wombatlike herbivore that lived in what's now Australia and New Guinea during the Pleistocene Epoch, until it died out about 40,000 years ago.

Stoneking has now compared the Denisovan genome with an additional 33 populations from mainland Asia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Polynesia, Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Mark Stoneking of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, found Denisovan DNA in modern humans living in east Indonesia, Polynesia, Australia and Papua New Guinea.

FOR ANYONE interested in languages, the north - eastern coastal region of Papua New Guinea is like a well - stocked sweet shop.

Diprotodon optatum was a massive wombat - like herbivore that lived in what's now Australia and New Guinea during the Pleistocene, until about 40,000 years ago.

Taken on an island in Papua New Guinea, Australian photographer Lisa Matuzelis snapped this curious image of a dog awaiting scraps from a local fisherman.

He discovered that the occurrence of deep ocean floor rocks, volcanic rocks and deformed rocks, which are currently found in the mountain ranges of New Guinea, point to the existence of a 4000 km wide subduction zone.

Using geological and geophysical data from the New Guinea region, Schellart was able to reconstruct the geological evolution of the region over the last 70 million years, including the motion of the tectonic plates and plate boundaries.

Diamond is being sued for $ 10 million in a New York court over an April 2008 article in The New Yorker magazine concerning violence and revenge in Papua New Guinea, where he has spent many years.

Accounting for margin of error, that gives them an edge over similar fishhooks found in East Timor (between 23,000 and 16,000 years old) and New Ireland in Papua New Guinea (20,000 to 18,000 years old).

Monash University geoscientist Associate Professor Wouter Schellart, and his colleague Professor Wim Spakman from Utrecht University, have discovered how the floor of an entire ocean basin that was destroyed 70 to 50 million years ago off the North coast of New Guinea is currently located at 800 - 1200 km depth below Central and South - eastern Australia.

In New Guinea farming communities today I often see women staggering under loads of vegetables and firewood while the men walk empty - handed.

The part that's affected is about 1,100 kilometres long, from New Guinea down to about Cairns [the whole reef is approximately 2,300 kilometres long].

In 1954 Wilson was offered a rare opportunity: Harvard would pay his way to New Guinea, virgin ground for entomology.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, they found that most songbirds first appeared in Australasia — the ancient landmass that included Australia, New Guinea, Tasmania, and parts of Indonesia — not in Eurasia, as was long believed.