Sentences with phrase «of land animals»

I was giving your article an honest read with an open mind until I got to the «stuffing of all land animals on a single boat»....

If you look at a map of the world, it's easy to think that the vast oceans would be effective barriers to the movement of land animals.

And did you know that the average size of land animals is just larger than a sheep?

Until quite recently, the evolution of land animals was seen as a matter of necessity.

Also, why do we not see mass freezing of land animals before sea animals are affected, given the relative stability of ocean temperatures?

It's easy to think that the globe's vast oceans would be effective barriers to the movement of land animals.

Matt Friedman, a graduate student at the University of Chicago in the US, has stumbled across a unique fossil that reveals how the coelacanth evolved its fins — previously considered to be close relatives of the hands and feet of land animals.

(Not to mention the six - day creation story and the stuffing of all land animals on a single boat.)

Exactly how elephants do this has been a mystery — and while solving that mystery is not of first - order importance in understanding and preserving this largest of land animals, it would add new insight into how a whole range of species up and down the size scale vocalize.

When I talked about the ark needing to hold more than 40K animals that was based on logic, as there are over 20K known species of land animals and birds and no scientific evidence suggesting there were significantly fewer species at the time Noah allegedly built the art.

Niedźwiedzki's find is 18 million years older than any previous evidence of land animals.

The pathogens of land animals are spreading to the oceans, threatening otters, seals, whales, coral and other sea creatures

OVERLOOKED OVERHEAD Adding up ladybugs (seven - spotted species shown) and other high - flying insects and their kin that travel overhead each year reveals what could be the biggest migration of land animals on the planet.

So in spite of the fact that the coelacanth is a closer relative of land animals, «you're better advised to look at paddlefish, sturgeons, or sharks» to study limb development, says Coates.

Its two pairs of ventral fins were of particular note as they were found to have evolved from the same structures as the limbs of land animals.

The researchers found that the maximal body size of land animals relates to the size of the landmass on which they live: larger animals require larger individual territories to obtain sufficient food.

He re-told the familiar tale of the evolution of land animals from ancient fish, and then considered the return of various groups of reptiles, birds and mammals to an aquatic existence: ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, crocodiles, sea - snakes, penguins, whales, dolphins and porpoises, manatees and dugongs, and seals — as well as polar bears, otters and water voles, who hunt in water.

They're found on the tongues of land animals.

It is found in the highest amounts in fish livers, the flesh of fatty fish, and the blood of land animals; and in smaller amounts in butter and lard from animals raised with plenty of exposure to sunshine.

The «eyes» have it: recognizing ocular emergencies in horses By Emily Fray, DMV, Pilchuck Veterinary Hospital With one of the largest eyes of any land animal, your horse is equipped...

Renata Rimkiene was ordered to pay # 1,500, after pleading guilty to two separate counts of landing an animal with intent to evade rabies regulations.

Nature - Watching - there are over 500 species of birds on the island, and several varieties of land animals that can be observed on tours and in refuges.

Nearly 600 bird species, almost every species of fish and coral found in the Caribbean, over 4,000 species of flowering plant, and the elusive Jaguar, among a host of land animals, can be found in Belize.

► 28 % of Land Animals gone since 1970.

Unlike the end - Cretaceous, the PETM was not a big extinction event but it generated enough environmental disruption to cause a high turnover of land animals, the evolution of ever smaller animals (the «Lilliput effect»), and a mass extinction of tiny shell - making creatures that live on the sea bed (benthic foraminifera).

The remarkable fins also presented a puzzle: unlike the hands and feet of land animals, they were symmetrical.

The biggest yearly mass movements of land animals may be the largely overlooked flights of aphids, moths, beetles, flies, spiders and their kin.

But even a claim that there were only one pair of every land animal on Earth, doesn't make the Biblical flood myth any more plausible and the author of the article doesn't claim that every single land animal on Earth was placed on the ark when he states «the stuffing of all land animals on a single boat».

I'd interpret that to mean that at least one of every land animal was taken on - board.

Of land animals, it is permitted to eat camels, cows, sheep, horses, and the like.

Did you know that 2 to 5 of every land animal can live on a boat with a year's supply of food?