Sentences with phrase «of small creatures living»

The latest film from animation studio Laika, The Boxtrolls, sees a race of small creatures living under the streets of the small town of Cheesebridge.

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The Jatravartids, who live in perpetual fear of the time they call «The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief», are small, blue creatures with more than fifty arms each, who are therefore unique in being the only race in history to have invented the aerosol deodorant before the wheel.

Philip Clayton, a theologian at Claremont School of Theology, picks up on this dimension of evolutionary process and likens creaturely life to the unfolding of a jazz composition: God provides the motifs, but creatures (of various kinds, from the smallest to the largest) provide the original riffs.

It was coined by Austrian scientist Edouard Suess in 1875 to refer to the thin film of life around the earth between the hydrosphere and the atmosphere, and penetrating them both; in this are found all earthly living creatures, great and small.

One day, the Creator took a mulligan on all the life He made and, save for a small boatload of creatures, committed unicide.

When in your garden dig over a small patch of earth and look for all the living creatures you can find.

This guide to life on our planet is packed full of information about creatures big and small.

But despite their name most of these creatures are small and live quietly in silk - lined burrows, trapping nothing more impressive than the occasional insect.

Around the world, beautiful iconic animals like Amur tigers or Javan rhinos are at risk of disappearing, as well as tens of thousands plants and smaller creatures that are the foundation of all life on earth.

Conventional wisdom used to be that the life span of a creature was roughly proportional to its body mass and heart rate — the big, slow elephant outlives the quick, small mouse.

From the smallest microbe to the largest dinosaurs and from the tiniest spore to the biggest giant sequoia, biological research continues to uncover weird and wonderful secrets of the creatures with whom we share the planet with — and could soon extend to the study of life on bodies in the solar system beyond our home.

All living creatures are composed of small (< 1 mm) entities, known as cells.

We have mapped the Earth's surface, but the creatures that live on it continue to elude us; every year brings news of thousands of newly discovered plant and animal species, some large (a new kind of orangutan was confirmed last year), some small (the dragon ant of Papua New Guinea) and many whimsical, like a spider that looks like a Harry Potter sorting hat, and named Eriovixia gryffindori.

Anyone can now create and upload «mods» to the Conan Exiles Steam Workshop, whether it's small changes and quality of life improvements, or total conversion mods introducing new creatures, characters, and worlds.

It turns out that the lump in Duncan's colon is the titular monster, a small creature that periodically crawls out of Duncan's ass to devour anyone who makes his life more stressful than it already is.

Academy Awards Animation Collection Walt Disney's Legacy Collection: True - Life Adventures, Volume 3 - Creatures of the Wild • The Aristocats: Special Edition Walt Disney's It's a Small World of Fun!

Content: Awareness and respect for living things; Recognition of basic colours; Understanding of growth; Introduction to birth and life cycles; Body awareness; Personal safety; Understanding of the seasons; Naming young animals; Learning about small creatures; Respect and care for the environment; Awareness of similarities and differences; Looking at patternsand change; Understanding past and present; Knowledge of night and day; Observation of weather; Questioning and predicting.

The goal of the project is to provide friendly habitats that sustain life for small creatures and / or plants for 30 days.

In her linoleum block prints, illustrator Taeeun Yoo brings it all to life with great warmth and a delightful cast of creatures, from a narwhal in a small fishbowl to a penguin on a leash.

The invasion is on, the Yeerks are everywhere, and the only ones who can stop them are the small band of kids with the power to become any living creature: the Animorphs are back.

However, those cloning methods could be used only in experiments with a small number of primitive living creatures, such as sea urchins and salamanders.

The Family ScrapbookThe Family Scrapbook is an introduction into the miniature world of the smaller creatures that live alongside us, most we recognise although mostly unseen.

Every Living Thing: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor (All Creatures Great and Small)

This toxin, similar to the toxin of cholera, causes the intestine cells to secrete the body's fluid into the intestine creating spectacular watery diarrhea and what can be life - threatening dehydration for smaller living creatures.

Forcing animals to live on top of one another and storing them by the thousand in small enclosed spaces would be enough to make any living creature go insane.

Zoo Med Laboratories manufactures a wide range of high - quality small animal foods, including its newest items: Crested Gecko Food, which consists of a mixture of dried fruits and insects; Creatures Jelly Food Cups for insects and invertebrates; Avian Banquet Cuttlebone made with real cuttlebone powder and available in banana and tropical fruit flavors; and Can O» Cockroaches and Can O» Silkworms, which are designed to add variety to an animal's diet without having to keep live feeder insects.

Slow currents allow you to calmly make your way through the ship's remains and encounter hundreds of different fish, coral and small creatures living among them.

A small group of these shy creatures lives in burrows close to the area of sand waves.

If you are also keen on the small creatures of the ocean, the Maldives is one of the best places for macro life!

This «House Reef» boasts a spectacular array of marine life from the smallest to the largest creatures.

Some of the marine life seen during the dive included: Banded Sea Snake, Day Octopus, Hawksbill Turtle and smaller creatures, like the Bargibanti Pygmy Seahorse, nudibranchs, five different kinds of flatworms, headshield slug, Hairy Shrimp and even a nocturnal Epaulette Shark.

PLASMIDS These creatures exist in a liquid state, composed entirely of small living crystals that move through a watery medium.

Start from ZERO and become the smallest creature... a spark of life... which has endless development paths ahead of it.

Environmental design is key to much of Xenoblade Chronicles 3D's wonder, open landscapes filled with creatures both towering and small that breath life into your adventure.

What also made backpacking around Tallon IV so special was being able to scan each creature (big or small), some plant life, and aspects of the landscape, giving a cold, scientific analysis of the planet.

The «Temmie» race that inhabits the world of Undertale are similar to the Mr. Saturns of Earthbound, as both are small cute creatures living in their own villages with their own language and mannerisms.

Start from ZERO and become the smallest creature — a spark of life — which has endless development paths ahead of it.

The action of Mushroom Wars 2 takes us to a fantasy universe where four factions of small creatures that live in mushroom - like homes constantly war with each other.

Designed by Will Wright, the creator of SimCity and The Sims, Spore was supposed to simulate the evolution of life, from single - celled organisms to small creatures to tribal human societies to an advanced civilization exploring outer space.

Hirst's Something solid beneath the surface of several creatures great and small, with its use of live and dead animals, is one of the collection's more controversial pieces.

Intrigued by how creatures that small can take over our lives completely and subsequently have to be taken down with heavy artillery, Maartje was directly inspired for a new series of works.

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).

Yet to living creatures, these small fractions are of vital importance... Within a few short centuries, we are returning to the air a significant part of the carbon that was slowly extracted by plants and buried in the sediments during half a billion years.

Highlighting the bee's critical importance to sustaining life and biodiversity on earth, this remarkable pavilion uses technology to link visitors with a living hive, to give them an affinity with these small but vital creatures — reminding us that as wondrous as the bees are, they are in danger of disappearing — and us with them.