Sentences with phrase «of rhinoceros»

He studied conservation biology and fell in love with the Sumatran rhino, the smallest — and the most critically endangered — member of the rhinoceros family.

n late November, three South African judges lifted a ban on the domestic sale of rhinoceros horn in the African country, sparking controversy both at home and abroad.

Every time I see it I think of a rhinoceros calf.

It is a distant relative of the rhinoceros, which the horn helps give away.

The main items of the auction will be a 1,5 x 1,5 meter oil painting of the famous Hungarian artist Anton Molnár (http://www.antonmolnar.com/en/about) and a 3D - print of a rhinoceros skull by the Technical University Berlin.

Excavation revealed a deep sequence of deposits containing the elephant remains, along with numerous flint tools and a range of other species such as; wild aurochs, extinct forms of rhinoceros and lion, Barbary macaque, beaver, rabbit, various forms of vole and shrew, and a diverse assemblage of snails.

The admitted ringleader of an international smuggling operation that trafficked in $ 4.5 million worth of rhinoceros horns, ivory cups and trinkets, pleaded guilty on Thursday in federal court in New Jersey, prosecutors said

NEW YORK (Reuters)- A Chinese citizen, the admitted ringleader of an international smuggling operation that trafficked in $ 4.5 million worth of rhinoceros horns, ivory cups and trinkets, pleaded guilty on Thursday in federal court in New Jersey, prosecutors said.

Since Triceratops had legs proportioned like those of a rhinoceros, some researchers concluded that they charged at a full gallop.

Instead Paladino offered his harsh assessment of the elected leaders under a photo of a rhinoceros, suggesting the GOP members are RINO's, or Republicans In Name Only.

«Unfortunately they did not do that and gave him zero support, and in that situation Mertesacker showed the agility of a rhinoceros.»

In Africa the natives take possession of a great anthill, destroy the ants, and clear out the inside, leaving only the clay walls standing, which they make red hot with a fire, so as to bake joints of rhinoceros within.

The high - stress lifestyle of a CIA operative requires you to have the heart of a warrior, the mind of a genius and the spine of a rhinoceros.

They were a mythicisation of the rhinoceros.

Interpol's research focused on the trade of rhinoceros, elephants, and tigers, as all international trade in those endangered species is prohibited.

Not exact matches

This is a show, after all, that once painted God as a gap - toothed rhinoceros - monkey, portrays Satan as a simpering milquetoast and regularly features Jesus as a superhero - the kind who's not afraid to ignore the peaceful teachings of the Sermon on the Mount to smite his opponents.

Depending upon the context of the passage however, the authors either use the word «rhinoceros» if the intent was to speak of two horns, or «unicornis» if the intent was to mean a singular horn.

It goes on to say under the entry for «rhinoceros» that: «a genus of quadrupeds of two species, one of which, the unicorn, has a single horn growing almost erect from the nose.

The fossil record includes the Stromatolites, colonies of prokaryotic bacteria, that range in age going back to about 3 billion years, the Ediacara fossils from South Australia, widely regarded as among the earliest multi-celled organisms, the Cambrian species of the Burgess shale in Canada (circa — 450 million years ago) the giant scorpions of the Silurian Period, the giant, wingless insects of the Devonian period, the insects, amphibians, reptiles, fishes, clams, crustaceans of the Carboniferous Period, the many precursors to the dinosaurs, the 700 odd known species of dinosaurs themselves, the subsequent dominant mammals, including the saber tooth tiger, the mammoths and hairy rhinoceros of North America and Asia, the fossils of early man in Africa and the Neanderthals of Europe.

He is not being wise by speaking like that, although I can't really disagree with most of what he says, especially the rhinoceros part.that is spot on

Rhinosacker will continue to Rhinoceros at the heart of the Gunners center backs as both Chambers & De Abreu continue to be the understudies to Rhino» & Koscielny.

The rebellion, whose numbers are fewer than the remaining Javan Rhinoceroses, will need to round up some troops in the far reaches of the outer rim and whatnot if they want to have a chance at taking down the First Order.

Surf Scoters, Red - throated and Pacific loons, and Whimbrels were headed for Alaska or interior Canada, while Black Oystercatchers, Glaucous - winged Gulls, and Rhinoceros Auklets were already in the throes of nesting on the Washington coast.

Outgoing Assemblyman Bob Sweeney said a three - way deal has been reached on to inhibit the trade of elephant ivory and rhinoceros horns in New York — a main goal of his.

When Eric Pickles was described by an opponent as possessing the «charm of a charging rhinoceros», it was meant to be an insult.

Whenever he finds himself on the wrong end of a dispute, Pickles boasts that his «rhinoceros - like» hide will see him through, while jibes about his weight also failed to hurt: «I'm rhinoceros - like: I could not care less about the comments.»

In his email, Martens mentions everything from lowering the cap on greenhouse gas emissions and securing funding for long - neglected flood control structures and coastal erosion projects to banning the sale and importation of elephant and rhinoceros ivory and undertaking «one of the largest additions to the forest preserve in the state's history.»

With the big five of a safari tour taking in lion, tiger, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo, getting into the big beast bracket is somewhere any politician would want to be.

As a professor of ecology and biology at the University of Montana in Missoula, he had spent 20 years examining the mating and territorial behavior of dung and rhinoceros beetles, well known for their very large horns, to understand why some insects spend so much energy building big weapons.

They threw those spears at bison and woolly rhinoceros, resulting in hunting injuries that would end the career of a linebacker.

Savannahs are home not only to unique wildlife, including the «Big Five» — the African elephant, rhinoceros, Cape buffalo, leopard and lion — but also to thousands of endemic plant species such as the baobab, or monkey bread tree.

This is a reconstruction of a Last Interglacial temperate landscape (Germany) with typical Late Pleistocene European large herbivores such as the now extinct straight - tusked elephant (Elephas antiquus), an extinct rhinoceros (Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis), as well as the still common roe deer (Capreolus capreolus).

According to remains found in recent years in Els Casots, these crocodiles would also have shared their habitat with large mammals: rhinoceroses, the equid genus Anchitherium, peccaries, mouse - deer, primitive pigs and bovines, extinct relatives of elephants (including the mastodon and a proto - elephant named deinotherium) and some carnivorous species, such as the so - called bear dogs and felids, hyaenids and extinct mustelids.

Analysis suggests it was probably fashioned from the bladder of some large animal, perhaps a woolly rhinoceros, and was at one time attached to some long, thin bones found arrayed around the impression.

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

It is perhaps no accident that the timing of this occupation coincides with a major extinction of larger ice age mammals such as the woolly mammoth and woolly rhinoceros.

For instance, the last birth of an endangered northern white rhinoceros was in 2000.

Purported to treat a variety of ailments, from fevers to measles to epilepsy, rhinoceros horns have been prized ingredients in Chinese medicines for thousands of years.

Unfortunately, that may be the future of the island unless scientists find some way to stop the destructive Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle which feeds on the coconut palms, stripping them of their leaves and decimating the vegetation.

Manas Wildlife Sanctuary Although Asian one - horned rhinoceroses, tigers, and other endangered mammals managed to survive 15 years of a rebel occupation in this World Heritage Site in India, they still face the threat of logging and poaching due to the shortage of park police.

And laws against the wildlife trade have failed to prevent supplies of everything from rhinoceros horns to tiger bones from reaching the estimated $ 3.9 - billion global market.

Rhinoceros numbers are dwindling extremely fast, especially the last two decades, resulting in near extinction for some species and the total extinction of the western black rRhinoceros numbers are dwindling extremely fast, especially the last two decades, resulting in near extinction for some species and the total extinction of the western black rhinocerosrhinoceros.

A genetic database that holds DNA from thousands of African rhinoceroses has secured the convictions of poachers and led to stiffer criminal sentences since its establishment eight years ago, researchers say.

Their extensive quarrying generated 56 cases of spectacular fossils «representing three species of three - toed horses, rhinoceroses... many species of antelope and gazelle... birds, and a variety of carnivorous mammals.»

The research team from UVic and partner universities in the US and Jordan has found the oldest evidence of protein residue — the residual remains of butchered animals including horse, rhinoceros, wild cattle and duck — on stone tools.

To demonstrate this, the authors used an engineering technology called finite element analysis — computer modeling of a structure to calculate the strains and stresses experienced when different forces are applied to it — to simulate the mechanical performance of the weapons of different rhinoceros beetle species under both the species» own style of battle and other species» fighting styles.

«The hominins in this region were clearly adaptable and capable of taking advantage of a wide range of available prey, from rhinoceros to ducks, in an extremely challenging environment.»

An amazing megafaunal menagerie roamed the region: Giant armadillos resembling armor - plated autos; bears twice the size of grizzlies; the hoofed, herbivorous toxodon, big as a rhinoceros; and saber - toothed tigers.

Genets are great jumpers and climbers and presumably would have little problem getting onto the back of a slow - moving rhinoceros.

A necropsy will be performed on a four - month old rhinoceros believed to have been the first of its species to be born through artificial insemination in the United States, officials from the Montgomery Zoo in Alabama said on Monday.