Sentences with phrase «of ancient creatures»

There are many efforts to identify dinosaurs excavated from sites in many parts of the world but being able to identify new species and seeing full - sized reconstructions of the ancient creatures are always exciting to experience.

Chromatophores produce the colors of all kinds of vertebrates other than reptiles, including fish and amphibians — so the new technique could open a door into seeing the full colors of a wide variety of ancient creatures.

Overall, comparing Vadasaurus's features with those of earlier and later pleurosaurs may provide scientists with insights about how evolution might have progressed among other, totally separate lineages of ancient creatures that also undertook the land - to - sea transition, including ichthyosaurs and mosasaurs, marine reptiles that swam the seas worldwide during large portions of the dinosaur era.

The Law is what's out in the world... fossils of ancient creatures that don't exist anymore.

The new analysis «is an elegant example of how to use the geochemistry of a fossil to infer the behavior and movement of an ancient creature,» says Henry Fricke, an isotope geochemist at Colorado College in Colorado Springs.

Not exact matches

We all are creatures of mingled good and evil; and, good institutions neglected and ancient moral principles ignored, the evil in us tends to predominate.

But God was not the author of those ancient texts, because it was obviously penned by men, and being the fallible creatures that we are, there are many mistakes.

There was a scholar in ancient Alexandria, named Arius, who taught that the Logos, or Word, that became incarnate in Jesus was a supernatural creature, the first and greatest of all creatures.

If he and Voltaire and all the other literary «smugglers» of the same grand, ancient truth are wrong, which I doubt, if there really is no afterlife, nothing, zero, zilch, at least there'll be no more intolerable suffering amond humans or among the sentient creatures we call «beasts.»

John Gay in his Beggar's Opera notes that «A covetous fellow, like a jackdaw, steals what he was never made to enjoy, for the sake of hiding it» Ancient Greek authors tell how a jackdaw, being a social creature, may be caught with a dish of oil which it falls into while looking at its own reflection.

It is a form of explanation which made use of the ancient concept of God's Wisdom, pictured almost as a distinct personal entity, God's agent in the creation of the world and his intermediary towards his rational creatures, who enters into the souls of men and makes them the friends of God.

Why should a tale of a man living in the digestive tract of an aquatic creature for three days and exiting unscathed be thought of as more valid than the story of a man who translated ancient writing with magic seer stones?

This is how much care God took in creating the Earth — He included an amazing diversity of fossils representing ancient humans and other creatures that never existed, just to keep us guessing.

Is you god «an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four - footed animals and crawling creatures» and of ancient organic pond soup (sometimes called ancient pond scum)?

This ancient church - ogre accuses Jesus of having required men to live by the strength of their strong wills, cruelly ignoring the fact that they are impotent creatures who can live only for the sake of a swinish happiness.

Modern Homo sapiens are remarkably sophisticated creatures, capable of writing symphonies, solving the Poincare Conjecture, and inventing Nutella, yet we carry around a number of fears that seem to be more characteristic of our ancient past.

Your kids will see some of the oldest dinosaur bones in Canada and meet ancient creatures.

At Brown, Turner is working in the lab of Professor Stephen Gatesy, where she is studying a continuum of postures and locomotion in ancient creatures.

Results of the analysis may make it much easier for paleontologists to infer the prey preferences and feeding styles of ancient aquatic creatures, especially if they have similar skull proportions to modern - day predators.

A museum's forgotten cache of preserved creatures shines a light on an ancient, possibly unethical, practice.

Hendrik, for his part, spent years plying through caves sampling preserved poop, probing permafrost and helping exhume mass graves, all to uncover well - preserved pockets of DNA that could shed light on how ancient creatures lived, died and evolved.

They are also the most efficient swimmers ever studied, among the most ancient animals surviving on Earth today and some of the most toxic sea creatures (SN: 9/6/14, p. 16).

When it comes to identifying the migrations and movements of ancient seafarers and the creatures they may have carried with them, «our results really just scratch the surface,» he says.

Team members have dubbed the newly described predator Pentecopterus after the penteconter, a type of ancient Greek warship that roughly mirrors the creature's body shape (artist's reconstruction shown above).

Using three - dimensional imaging and a burgeoning knowledge of ancient anatomies, scientists can now rebuild ancient creatures» vocal tracts and re-create their sounds.

Extinction, certainly of really ancient creatures, is forever, as the authors themselves make clear.

Dinosaurs resurrected using preserved DNA still only exist in Jurassic Park, but we're making great strides in sequencing the genomes of more recent, but still ancient, creatures.

We've reached the end of our New Mexico road trip, and we have scoured the side of the road for long - dead sea creatures, found a shark tooth in an ancient seafloor and tracked long - dead worms across fossilized mud.

And in Australia — where people and oversized animals may have coexisted thousands of years ago — some scholars have speculated that references to enormous animal - like creatures in Australia's Aboriginal «Dreamtime» mythology may have drawn from ancient encounters with real megafauna or their remains, known today from Australia's fossil record.

Kneeling next to an active dig of an ancient crocodilian creature, Lewin admits that he is not a paleontologist, but he can pore over a find like this for hours.

There, organic and inorganic remains of ancient marine creatures retain chemical signatures of ocean temperatures when they were alive.

Home to an ancient Aztec outpost high in the mountains and inhabited with monkeylike creatures called coatis, it is the definition of quaint, picturesque Mexico.

For a century and a half, the 150 - million - year - old feathered creature called Archaeopteryx has reigned as the earliest known bird and as a symbol of the link between ancient dinosaurs and living fowl.

An international team of scientists, including one from the University of Colorado Denver and another from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, announced the discovery Thursday of a new species of hominin, a small creature with a tiny brain that opens the door to a new way of thinking about our ancient ancestors.

Now, a new study of prehistoric horse DNA concludes that spotted horses did indeed roam ancient Europe, suggesting that early artists may have been reproducing what they saw rather than creating imaginary creatures.

Penetrating chunks of amber and ancient rock, powerful new imaging machines render 3 - D portraits of fossil creatures concealed for millions of years.

In the depths of the Arctic Ocean, buried deep in the sediment, an ancient creature waited for over a million years to be discovered.

And many exchanges were heated because, despite 150 years of research on the biology of evolution, scientists still disagree about how and why multicellular creatures and plants emerged from ancient oceans that teemed with robust and self - reliant single - celled entities.

The ancient creatures were considered excellent souvenirs, compactly embodying the exotic rituals of an ancient society.

Now, thanks to the analysis of the ancient jawbone of a sharp - toothed, dolphinlike creature, researchers think they know how such a terrifying animal gave rise to its docile, filter - feeding kin.

Aquatic arthropods — today's crustaceans such as shrimp, crabs, and lobsters as well as ancient creatures such as trilobites and sea scorpions — have limbs with two branches, one of which bears weight and another that is typically adorned with gills.

In truth, I am also a bit of a Depp fan and so what better way to honour the man than to immortalise him as an ancient creature that once roamed the sea?»

Because the fecal matter of dinosaurs and other ancient creatures has been found in the fossil record, ambergris should have been preserved, too, says Angela Baldanza, a sedimentary geologist at the University of Perugia in Italy.

Fossils and full - size reconstructions of a pygmy mastodon, prehistoric horses, and ancient sea creatures populate the exhibit.

While many would be repulsed by these creatures, lamprey are exciting to biologists because they are so primitive, retaining many characteristics similar to their ancient ancestors and thus offering answers to some of life's biggest evolutionary questions.

Then, consider that this creature you may have heard of for the first time 30 seconds ago comes from a group of animals not only nearing extinction, but unthinkably ancient and the survivor of several extreme climate change events.

Looking like a cross between a fish and a dolphin, ichthyosaurs thrived throughout the reign of the dinosaurs, and since their remains are regularly dug up across Europe and the UK, they're among the most well - understood ancient creatures.

A fresh theory on the origin of dinosaurs shakes up a central fact regarding the ancient creatures that has stood for 130 years.

During this time, there was a lot of «evolutionary experimentation», with many ancient communities dominated by alien - looking creatures unlike any of their modern counterparts.

The fossils of the creature, named after the Rising Star cave system in which they were discovered — «naledi» means «star» in the local Sesotho language — paint the picture of an ancient hominin that possessed a mixture of human and ape - like traits.