Sentences with phrase «of giant elephants»

The film opens in grand fashion as King Uther Pendragon (Eric Bana) defends Camelot from an army of giant elephants under the control of the evil sorcerer Mordred (Rob Knighton).

Just about the only thing that hasn't been added is the Hindu creation myth that the Earth sits on top of the giant elephant that rests on the shell of a enormous turtle.

Rupert Grint revealed he keeps a collection of weird antiques.The «Harry Potter» star's collection boasts of giant elephant - bird eggs and even the X...

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If you doubt the accuracy of the Bible, then how was a man named Job able to say with precision that «the earth hung upon nothing» (Job 26:7) some 3,600 years ago, since the most learned men even a thousand years later held to the belief that the earth was held up by elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle?

It's been a while since I've been to a game, and I confess that the vast sea of people, the music and singing and food, the giant elephant statue making it's way down the boulevard in the back of a pickup truck, and general religious fervor of the whole enterprise reminded me a bit of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in India, which honors the Elephant deity.

What the religious never understand is that it makes as much sense to believe in the giant elephant in the sky as it does that some mystical all - knowing creature is actually paying attention to all of this.

A team of Barcelona's talent doesn't simply stop playing great football and stop scoring goals because of one singular factor, though there is one giant elephant in the room regarding Lionel Messi and his teammates» inability to step up when he isn't at his best.

My doula came over Sunday afternoon to give this giant pregnant elephant a pep talk to help get me out of the headspace I had ended up in.

Even a giant of the political world like Prezza shouldn't take on this Asian elephant, though.

SOME 13,000 years ago, on a tropical island at the heart of the Indonesian archipelago, an extraordinary group of dwarf - sized people lived alongside dwarf elephants and giant lizards.

There were also fairly large losses in Europe and Asia, including a number of elephants, rhinoceroses and giant deer.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has set fire to 11 giant pyres of elephant tusks to show his country's resolve to stamp out the illegal ivory trade and save elephants.

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 giant wave had caught only a very small number of large mammals, like wild boars, and not a single elephant or leopard was found dead.

Dozens of species disappeared altogether, including 17 giant lemurs, three pygmy hippopotamuses, two aardvarklike mammals, a giant fossa (a catlike carnivore), eight elephant birds, a giant crocodile and two giant tortoises.

Many of the species Darwin discovered in the fossils were previously unknown to science, including several giant ground sloths, compact car — sized relatives of armadillos called glyptodonts (SN Online: 2/22/16) and ancient kin of horses and elephants.

Elsewhere in the Indonesian archipelago, a similar array of pressures conspired to produce huge lizards like the Komodo dragons, giant rats, and tiny elephants.

Rounded with smooth floors and claw marks along the wall, the caves may have been dug out by elephant - sized giant ground sloths or maybe a species of enormous armadillos, both now long extinct, Discover Magazine reports.

One elephant, Kelly, was even able to retrieve tortilla chips intact — using one - thirtieth the weight of the trunk to do so, proving these giants can grasp and suck up objects far beyond the researchers» imaginations, they say.

Giant Ice Age species including elephant - sized sloths and powerful sabre - toothed cats that once roamed the windswept plains of Patagonia, southern South America, were finally felled by a perfect storm of a rapidly warming climate and humans, a new study has shown.

The researchers found hippo fossils at the Pakefield site, as well as fossils of other warmth - loving species such as lion, an extinct giant deer called Megaloceros dawkinsi and Palaeoloxodon antiquus, an extinct straight - tusked elephant.

Northern Central African Republic historically supported some the most pristine wilderness and intact and abundant wildlife assemblages in Africa, including species of global importance such as elephant, Kordofan giraffe, hippopotamus, lion, giant eland, and more.

They also hunted the native megafauna to extinction centuries ago, including the tratratratra, a gorilla - size lemur that weighed up to 400 pounds, and the elephant bird, which weighed nearly half a ton and may have been the inspiration for a 13th - century tale of a giant bird that carried Sinbad the Sailor to safety.

Regarding your ultimate guide to the multiverse (26 November 2011, p 42), it looks like Terry Pratchett was right: somewhere in the multiverse there is Discworld, supported on the backs of four elephants, standing on a giant turtle swimming through space.

Mammoth bones were first thought to be the remains of biblical giants, until the physician Hans Sloane identified them as the remains of elephants in 1728.

NGxTsum has the look and feel of a concept store with plastic wrapped furniture, coffee tables covered with piles of Assouline books and niche fashion magazines such as System and special installations such as Loewe's giant pink elephant standing next to the brand's popular elephant - shaped totes.

But lo, to bring a whiff of excitement into their lives, a werewolf is terrorizing their little hamlet, leading to the arrival of werewolf - hunter extraordinaire Father Solomon (Oldman), who has, among his ornaments and trinkets (like a silver sword and a mute Chinese guy played by ace stuntman Paul Wu), a giant bronze oven forged in the shape of an elephant.

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They reminded me of those giant war elephants Colin...

September also marks the release of Sara Gruen's follow - up to the smash hit Water for Elephants, Ape House, (Sept. 7), Ken Follett's first part in a new trilogy, Fall of Giants (Sept. 28), another love story from Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven (Sept. 14) and Michael Cunningham's first novel since Specimen Days, By Nightfall (Sept. 28).

I'm just an interior decorator, pointing out the elephant (stores lack e-commerce websites, and thus face competition from a store six states away which does have an online store) and the rotting giant squid (digital comics sales will quicken the demise of print comics dominance).

Of course, the giant elephant in the room I am not talking about is your debt.

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Giant elephant seals haul out in huge colonies on beaches near Piedras Blancas Lighthouse, north of Cambria.

Enjoy dinner with the gentle giants of the jungle - the Sumatran elephant at Bali Zoo.

In the watery tomb, divers also found many bones of creatures that were later identified as puma, sabertooth, giant tapir, boar, coyote, bear and gomphothere — a distant elephant relative.

Most of the dive sites are pristine coral reefs with colorful soft corals and crinoids, vast staghorn coral fields and huge table corals in the shallow parts, giant elephant ears in the deeper parts, giant sponge barrels along the slopes.

Saldaha Bay is the most prolific source of fossils thus far uncovered anywhere in Africa — bones speak of another world in which there were both fresh water animals and land animals like giant otters, giant pandas, short - necked giraffes and sabre - toothed cats, a rhino from which the white rhino is descended and the «true elephant», an ancestor of the woolly mammoth.

Come up close and personal with the gentle giants of the sea - elephant seals - at Piedras Blancas.

Somalisa Camp is set in the heart of the Hwange National Park which is known as the land of the giants because of the big elephant herds that inhabit it.

Helping Elephants in Need Tour Volunteer or just visit these gentle giants at Friends of the Asian Elephant Hospital in Lampang.

- Timber sundeck at one end of the pool furnished with sunbeds and an umbrella - Pool is bordered by high walls and an array of tropical shrubs including including a sweet scented frangipani tree and giant elephant ears.

Flying elephants, giant teacups... there's no debating that after for more than 60 years, this magical world of make - believe is still the...

At the very least, they are attacking a giant male nude made of found materials and elephant turds.

An eclectic lineup includes John Russell's giant backlit digital collage that stretches across the space and literally places a (sightless) elephant in the centre of the room; American artist Cecile B Evans» miniature recreation of the study of a fictional architect whose severed head sits on his desk chair while ectoplasmic smoke billows from a corner; and several filmed episodes from the life of American artist and sound designer E Jane's online avatar (who also has a successful musical career and clothing range).

It is, after all, a giant marketing exercise for the Tate, and the institution has benefited rather than otherwise from the barrage of indignation it has engendered over animals in formaldehyde, lights switching on and off, and elephant - dung paintings.

To wit, Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas created a site specific installation which includes a giant elephant, red brick tiles and an imagined archive facility filled with remnants of contemporary culture.

«Play Dead, Real Time,» which is now in MoMA's permanent collection, consists of two giant projectors and a smaller monitor displaying a silent video of a circus elephant.