Sentences with phrase «of animal skulls»

Matthew Angelo Harrison's casts of animal skulls and Maya Stovall's ensemble of vessels made from broken glass found on the streets of Detroit suggest that preciousness and damage are inevitably intertwined.

In his Sundrawn series, Noll decorates a variety of animal skulls with unique patterns.

And, then, for fun, they can guess what kind of animals the skulls come from.»

Not exact matches

One biological distinction between humans and other animals is a surfeit of the white matter inside our skulls called myelin.

Some believe that the 90 % of our brain which we do not use is not simply empty matter in our skulls, but may have originally been the parts of our brain that communicated with the spiritual realm of the angels so that through them we could communicate with each other, with God, with the animals, with the plants, and even with the forces of nature (For more on this theology of angels, see «The Powers Trilogy» by Walter Wink.)

Despite dozens of investigations revealing extreme animal abuse, criminal activity, and disregard for Australia's regulations, offending exporters continue to send animals to places where animals have had their eyes stabbed, their tendons slashed, and their skulls smashed with sledgehammers.

There is a fence around it to keep animals out, and the bleached skull of an old bull elephant lies in the gray sand beside the gate like a sentry.

Learn how to hypothesize an animal's diet from knowledge of its teeth and use your observation skills to identify an unknown skull.

Given that kosher slaughter is in fact at least as humane as «stunning» via either electrocution or driving a peg into the base of an animal's skull, to deny Jews and Muslims the ability to practice their religions, and claim it has nothing to do with bigotry, fools no one.

That means the bovine skull is the earliest evidence of surgical experimentation on an animal.

At 3.75 - 4 meters long, this late Eocene animal was smaller than any of its living relatives, but the most important difference was in the skull.

In July they reported that the ultrasound was able to pass through the monkeys» skulls and almost instantly loosen small sections of the animals» blood - brain barrier.

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

Three - dimensional reconstructions of the skulls of the Goyet dog and another Ice Age dog show that the animals» snouts didn't angle from the skull the way modern dogs» do, and the ancient versions didn't have some other features of modern dogs (SN Online: 2/5/15).

To properly age and classify the Mongolian fossil Maelestes gobiensis, estimated to be between 71 million and 75 million years old, Wible and his team compared it with 409 features culled from the skulls, teeth and skeletal remains of other animals ranging in age from present - day mammals to those estimated to have lived over 100 million years ago.

Tiktaalik is a strange creature, a combination of the limbs, skull, neck, and ribs of four - limbed animals and the more primitive jaw, fins, and scales of fish.

Studies of fossil seabird skulls at London's Natural History Museum have revealed that the animals» brains and sensory systems were remarkably advanced.

In general, they found that an animal's skull and other fleshy structures act as a shield, blunting the effects of a blast wave: The thicker these structures are, the less vulnerable an animal is to injury.

But «Itchy» was no reptile: The animal, known from two partial skulls and described in July in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, was actually an ancient mammal relative.

In this memoir, paleontologists Walker and Shipman splice stories of their adventures excavating the animal with an analysis of its biology — as revealed by current research and by Mary Leakey, who discovered the first Proconsul skull in Kenya in 1948.

But strangely for an animal with a tougher bite than a great white shark, some of the bones that make up a T. rex skull are not fused and would only have been held together by connective tissue.

The odd tube, although absent in all living animals, has been found inside the skull crests of certain species of dinosaurs — which also might have used the feature for low - frequency communication.

From their first excavation, they claimed to have discovered several pieces of a humanlike skull, an apelike mandible, some worn molar teeth, stone tools, and fossilized animals.

He then seeded the cells on a polymer scaffolding, infused them with apatite (a mineral component of bone), and injected the mix into small holes he had drilled into the animals» skulls.

«Eight to 12 weeks later we found we'd been able to heal the defects in the skull that would never have healed naturally in the lifetime of the animal,» Longaker says.

The turtle's skull, however, showed that it was indeed a marine animal: Hirayama found traces of enormous tear glands.

During their research — which involved careful study of the skulls and skins of related flying fox species in 8 different museums on 3 different continents — the researchers straightened out a second point of confusion in the scientific literature regarding these animals.

The remains of fires encircling the grave of a Neanderthal toddler contain animal horns and a rhino skull that seem to have been placed there in a funerary ritual

The researchers, from North Carolina State (NC State) University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, both in Raleigh, say the newly analyzed fossil — parts of a skull, spine, and upper forelimb found in central North Carolina — represents one of the earliest examples of crocodylomorphs, a group of crocodilelike animals who ruled Earth in the Late Triassic.

But in the 260 - million - year - old skull of an animal named Glanosuchus — and in all the mammallike reptiles that followed Glanosuchus — Hillenius saw distinct turbinal ridges.

In 1924, mining blasts at the Buxton Limeworks near Taung, South Africa, exposed a cavern containing the fossil bones of many small animals — and the two - and - a-half-million-year-old skull of an australopithecine child.

Wroe and his team compared the skulls, teeth and body proportions of seven extinct mammalian predators with those of 22 living species, in a bid to better understand how the extinct animals behaved.

Though they found a few elements of the fossilized skull, the researchers chose to model the skull after a few well - preserved skulls of smaller animals related to titanosaurs, and «scaled it up to the size that this animal would be,» Norell said.

About 5,000 years ago, humans used crude stone tools to puncture a hole in a cow's head, making it the earliest known instance of skull surgery in an animal.

But the skull itself is not the only treasure: The study says the cranium, found in the Aroeira cave site, is connected to nearby stone tools like hand axes and animals remains, including «burnt bones [that suggest] a controlled use of fire.»

A re-analysis of a 5,000 - year - old cow's skull suggests humans were performing cranial surgery on animals as well — but why would they even bother?

We carefully perfused each animal with 20 mL of ice cold sterile PBS and then harvested the brains and skull cap meninges from each animal and assessed 10 % of homogenated brain and meninges for parasite load using semi-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) targeting an abundant T. gondii gene family, B1 [20].

You can find lots of different designs completed with skulls, flowers, hearts and animal spots.

The skulls of dead aliens are seen, along with some human corpses and taxidermy animals.

Remind students that some of the skulls are real (from animals that were once alive) and some of the skulls are models (but that they are very expensive).

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When work on the gallery's skulls, skeletons and teeth specimens began, an idea was born: hand - made transparent masks featuring animal teeth that would allow visitors to take «teeth selfies» to be displayed as part of the exhibition.

W. Tecumseh Fitch's 2010 book «The Evolution of Language» explains that, in general, larger animals have larger brains — you couldn't very well encase a humpback whale's 10 - pound brain in your skull.

Cost of Care provided by the San Jose Animal Care Center: $ 1,500 + Hachi entered the shelter with a large mass between his ears that seemed to be attached to his skull.

Through comparison of live animals, replica skulls, and diagrams, students will explore the characteristics of organisms, look for similarities and differences among them, and learn about natural selection.

I carry a nice line of imitation human and animal skulls, with a sign above them with the first words a customer said when we introduced the line: «Dude.

Washed up on the shores of the afterlife, players meet and join forces with vibrant ghost - samurai warriors, magical animal - monks, and mustachioed samurai generals on the way to capture the Skulls of the Shogun in a 15 - hour single - player campaign.

-- Nintendo previously made Zelda games by making small areas and connecting them together — For Breath of the Wild, the team first had to figure out what needed to be placed on the map — Groups were created out of the over 300 devs to work on specific sections of the world — Game Informer's demo starts at Serenne Stable — Yammo runs this place — Link can rest in bed and restore health here — Stable also lets you store horses, meet with merchants, NPCs — Stables are located throughout the world — Each one is run by a distinct character — You can spend rupees on a more expensive bed, giving you an extra heart the next morning — These hearts are yellow and can't be recovered if you're hit in combat — Spending time by fires in the world passes time — Dynamic weather system in the game, with the world reacting as a result — Ex: when it starts raining, NPCs outside the stable quickly go inside — Beedle is back to sell you goods — Have to be careful during a thunderstorm, since your metal items can attract thunder — Metal weapons and shields can be discarded or thrown at enemies — Link can get killed by lightning — Difficulty dips / spikes depending on where you are, since you can go around it and avoid it until you're stronger — Over 100 Shrines — You can find an item that identifies Shrines — Discover a Shrine for it to be a fast - travel point — Shrines also give a Spirit Orb — Trade in orbs for unknown items — Dedicated team handled animal A.I. — Bears, wolves, deer move through the snow — You can get overwhelmed by enemies quickly — Link can keep multiple horses at a time — Affection / loyalty important with horses — Feed and take care of horses to raise their stats — Can call horses over to you, but horses need to be within a certain proximity to be called — Horses can be killed by enemies — Aonuma «wanted players to choose their own path», so no companion character in this game — Stamina meter encopasses sprinting, paragliding, climbing — Meter can be upgraded, but Nintendo won't say how — Different shields have different speeds and level of control for snowboarding — Can mine rocks which can be solid for rupees or used for crafting — Can place stamps to mark areas of interest — 100 of these symbols can be used on the map, including sword, shield, bow and arrow, pot, star, chest, skull, leaf, diamond — Every style of weapon has a unique set of animations and feel different — No invincible weapons in the game, Nintendo says — Zelda can get mad at you and scold you — Players can see the ending without seeing everything from the story — A certain element was added in the game to make for a more cohesive storyline — Most difficult Zelda game to make — Aonuma is still finding new things in the world

The game starts off showing Crom somehow shooting a deer while wearing his signature helmet composed of a horned animal skull.

However, rather than traditional floral and geometric motifs, these vases boast modern hieroglyphs of Mexican and Norteño drug culture - marijuana leaves, guns, skulls, pin - up models, bottles of liquor, packs of cigarettes, and animals that symbolize specific drugs: the rooster, marijuana; the goat, heroin; and the parrot, cocaine.