Sentences with phrase «of giant animals»

The director Brad Peyton (who worked with Johnson on Journey 2 and San Andreas) switches between shots of giant animals gleefully burrowing into the Willis Tower and brave first responders rescuing civilians.

According to the researchers, the total dependence of Neanderthals on large animals to answer their fat and protein needs may provide a clue to their eventual extinction, which took place at the same time as the beginning of the demise of giant animals or «Megafauna» in Europe some 50,000 years ago.

The lifestyle of these giant animals impacted the entire vegetation — trees were kept small and other plants had sufficient room and nutrients for their growth.

Co-author Mark Loewen noted that, «We're still working to figure out how so many different kinds of giant animals managed to co-exist on such a small landmass?»

The main room feels overwhelming in scale, full of over-sized and crudely modeled ceramic sculptures, towering red dripping sculptures that look like some sort of giant animal's tendons freshly ripped from its body, and spray - painted canvases hanging on the walls.

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A bunch of animals get infected and effectively turn into giant terrifying monsters.

The owners of a giant rabbit named Simon who was found dead after a United Airlines (ual) flight demanded on Monday that the airline pay damages, order an outside investigation and re-evaluate how it handles animals on flights.

Minor episodes are added to explain details upon which Scripture is silent» the sons» wives are sent to distant lands to gather pairs of animals, and it is the giants, mentioned briefly before Noah appears, who provide the timber for the Ark» but nothing in the account is altered.

Adam and Eve and a talking snake Johan living in a whale Moses parting the Red sea Angels coming to earth and having relations with earth women and having them give birth to giants the life and times of Jesus Noah building an ark and having 2 of every animal come aboard

To Buckland, they also offered strange deposits he identified as fossil droppings (coprolites) of extinct giant saurians; his pioneering work opened up an entirely new field of study — identifying animal's diets — and speaks to his eccentricity.

The birth of a cloned human being or the attempt to gestate a genetically engineered baby, the development of an artificial womb (currently in animal testing), or some other such sudden breakthrough — any of these could awaken the sleeping giant and spark an intense policy brouhaha.

Especially the part where Noah builds a boat 300 cubits (450 feet) long and manages to collect 2 of each type of animal in the world (what part of science showed how he traveled to the arctic to collect polar bears, and Australia to collect all manner of marsupials (Giant hoverdcraft, was it?)

Cargill, one of the largest global agricultural companies, has joined Bill Gates and other business giants to invest in a nascent technology to make meat from self - producing animal cells amid rising consumer demand for protein that's less reliant on feed, land and water.

The EU's giant stocks of skimmed milk powder (SMP) may end up as animal feed as the Commission continues to explore all options for its disposal, Commissioner Phil Hogan said yesterday.

-LSB-...] morning special breakfast We're talking giant stacks of animal shaped pancakes, homemade cinnamon rolls, casseroles, and various baked oatmeals, of course.

«The vast majority of these massive, industrial - scale facilities, some managing 10,000 - 20,000 head of cattle, and upwards of 1 million laying hens, had 100 % of their animals confined in giant buildings or feedlots.»

Looks like Stan likes to kill animals ah wat money does to people they just get bored and cum up with stupid tv prog go kill animals makes me mad and sad and to think our club is ran by this man no wonder we are we're we are besides putting cash into tv, Stan get ur cash and give ozil and Sanchez and ox the money they want if doesn't do it go get bale that's wat real owner does and if Sanchez refuses da offer get the guys killing animals on ur programme to go hunting Sanchez sick being put down like how are spurs ahead of us there building now we're passed that we should be in champions league semis at least I don't no if it's wenger or da owner but at Highbury when mr drink was around we had 13 world class players and Highbury now emirates we have maybe 3 or 4 or 5 tops, world class players and guess wat we can't even keep them oh my dear friends it don't feel rite I find myself losing my arsenal my life I can not believe spurs are above us and how we use tear them to shreds our kids use ta, who cares if Sanchez goes we will not win da league with Stan there he just wants pump cash in to shooting poor animals well to me ur the animal and ur taking a sleeping giant in to the jungle?

I'll leave you with a video of Theo Walcott, Cesc Fabregas, Bacary Sagna and Andrey Arshavin dressed in giant furry animal suits to raise money for charity.

I wouldn't feel the same way about giant stuffed animals or a lot of pillows though because I think a baby could be trapped.

Aside from the concerns over L'Oreal's record on animal testing and other ethical issues, the cosmetic giant is part - owned by Nestlé, the target of a boycott over its aggressive marketing of baby milks.

3 New Animal Exhibits to See in Chicago: From Penguins and Polar Bears to Poison Dart Frogs - Choose Chicago - November 2, 2016 In a few short days, guests to the Chicago Academy of Sciences / Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum will be able to take a giant leap into the amazing and colorful world of frogs when the brand new exhibit Frogs: A Chorus of Colors opens to frog lovers from near and far.

Some of the activities we saw include a corn maze, a cow train pulled by a tractor for little ones, the giant slides, jumping pillow, hayride, zipline, play barn, and farm animals.

One animal after another tries to get rid of the Giant Jumeree.

Some of the animals featured in the box are clownfish, humpback whale, white - bellied sea eagle, coral, giant clam, Blacktip reef shark, hawksbill turtle, and a prominent feature of THE SHARK!

When the giant panda became famous, the attention also benefited thousands of other plant and animal species that inhabited the same mountain forests.

Such wear patterns, created when food being chewed scrapes away some tooth enamel, can reveal what an animal ate — and in this case they were similar to those of giant pandas.

It was observed on virtually every continent, although a particularly large number of animals became extinct in North and South America, where species including sabre - toothed cats, mastodons, giant sloths and giant armadillos disappeared, and in Australia, which lost animals such as giant kangaroos, giant wombats and marsupial lions.

The site contains abundant fossils, diverse assemblages of Triassic animals including relatives of crocodylians, giant - headed amphibians and ancient relatives of modern mammals called cynodonts.

The extinction of the large animals took place in virtually all climate zones and affected cold - adapted species such as woolly mammoths, temperate species such as forest elephants and giant deer, and tropical species such as giant cape buffalo and some giant sloths.

The team created highly detailed data sets and visualizations relying on expertise from researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, after they tracked three highly iconic but threatened species: California condors, giant pandas, and dugongs, a large, marine animal somewhat similar to the manatee.

In North America, the Ice Age was marked by the mass extinction of several dozen genera of large mammals, including mammoths, mastodons, American horses, Western camels, two types of deer, ancient bison, giant beaver, giant bears, sabre - toothed cats, giant bears, American cheetahs, and many other animals, as well as plants.

Like many parts of the world during the most recent ice ages (the last of which ended about 12,000 years ago), Australia had its share of weird giant animals, including a supersized relative of the Komodo dragon, today's largest land lizard.

Unlike, say, dog poop that can be easily washed off a shoe, people have no way to avoid the smell wafting from a giant hog farm — and animal studies suggest that the impact of stressors, which can cause, for example, feelings of depression and anxiety, can be modulated by a sense of control over that stressor.

«Under geological aspects, the small number of so few large animal species presents an anomaly,» explains Professor Dr. Hervé Bocherens of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, and he continues, «The most prominent example of prehistoric giants is, of course, the dinosaurs.»

The scientist from Tübingen reached the conclusion that, on the one hand, modern man was the cause of these giant terrestrial animals» extinction, and on the other hand, humans took over part of the animals» ecosystem functions.

But despite the lack of direct evidence, he points to some intriguing animal studies — from polar bears and penguins to giant pandas and barnacle geese — that suggest the answers might depend on an animal's ecology.

Professor Andrew Scott, one of the lead authors, said: «High oxygen levels in the atmosphere at this time has been proposed for some time and may be why there were giant insects and arthropods at this time but our research indicates that there was a significant impact on the prevalence and scale of wildfires across the globe and this would have affected not only the ecology of the plants and animals but also their evolution.»

STINKING lagoons of pig manure created by thousands of animals in giant hog farms can pollute rivers, poison groundwater and pump out clouds of methane and carbon dioxide.

Such ease of use will likely encourage the use of more animal models in the study of human diseases, says Rhonda Wiler, a geneticist at biotech giant Genentech in San Francisco, California, who co-chairs the Roundtable on Science and Welfare in Laboratory Animal Use (which organized the workanimal models in the study of human diseases, says Rhonda Wiler, a geneticist at biotech giant Genentech in San Francisco, California, who co-chairs the Roundtable on Science and Welfare in Laboratory Animal Use (which organized the workAnimal Use (which organized the workshop).

However, contrary to many of the continent's other wild animals, these long - necked giants are still rather poorly studied.

Bilde thought the velvet spider's genome would hold clues to the animal's social behavior and its odd mix of resilience and fragility, so her team and the Chinese sequencing giant BGI set out to sequence its DNA and, for comparison, that of a tarantula.

He is the author of numerous books, including Cooperation Among Animals: An Evolutionary Perspective (Oxford University Press, 1997), The Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness (Princeton University Press, 2006), and Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose (University of Chicago Press, 2009).

Those temples and the underground burial chambers related to them contained many images of obese humans — some no larger than a few centimeters, others the size of giants — as well as of animals and phallic symbols.

The Ozarks have continued to change as agriculture and grazing decimate stands of giant cane, impacting animals from swamp rabbits to warblers.

This prevented the brain of the giant nudibranch from producing the pattern of impulses that would normally cause the animal to swim.

At least twenty - five plants and animals observed during the survey are new records for Penang or peninsular Malaysia, including the Sunda colugo or flying lemur, the red giant flying squirrel, the long - tailed giant rat, the Indomalayan niviventer, the lesser mouse deer, and species of ground squirrels, birds, bacteria, bats, ants, orchids, flies, frogs, mosquitoes, and microscopic water bears.

The dodo (Raphus cucullatus), an extinct, giant flightless pigeon once endemic to the island of Mauritius, may arguably be the most widely known animal species to have gone extinct in human history.

Scientists have long argued about what caused the extinction of many species of megafauna — giant animals including mammoths, mastodons, and moas — beginning between 9000 and 13,000 years ago, when humans began to spread around the world.

The size of big ships means they can hit giant sea animals, lost boxes, or yachts and not notice.

Including information about other viruses and virus - like elements: adenoviruses that infect animals and are one of the causes of the common cold; certain bacteriophages that infect bacteria; transpovirons which infect giant viruses; and a Tetrahymena transposable element (Tlr1), the virus «evolutionary tree» appears as a network of swapped genes.