Sentences with phrase «of species living»

«I had this aha moment that if every single person on Earth could see the reef and the connections of hundreds of species living together and how fragile that ecosystem is, maybe people would want to protect it,» she says.

Therefore, the community of species living in hypoxic areas will shift.

There is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the species living here in this world.

Your analogy of our species living like teens over the last few centuries is right on.

Plumb and his volunteers were part of a bold effort called a «bioblitz» — a 24 - hour inventory of every species living in the 116 - square - mile area.

Fossil evidence shows that about 70 percent of species living on Earth at the time became extinct [source: NASA].

Scientists worry that might threaten biodiversity, or the number of species living in a region.

With the marine fossils grouped by age, the collection shows a dramatic 65 - 70 % reduction in the number of species living in the Antarctic 66 million years ago — coinciding exactly with the time when the dinosaurs and many other groups of organisms worldwide became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period.

The finding supports previous research suggesting that colossal volcanic eruptions in what's now Siberia, about 300,000 years before the onset of the extinction event, probably triggered the die - off of nearly all marine species and two - thirds of species living on land (SN: 9/19/15, p. 10).

Roads, for example, appear to directly affect only a relatively small strip of land, but they also cut ecosystems in half, altering the survival prospects of species living on either side of them.

only 30 percent of this planet are christians but they are the most dominant, there are millions of species living now in our planet but only 1 that is us who are dominant and significant, so its not the numbers but the influence

The fossils could represent the earliest known examples of H. sapiens ever found (if confirmed by further research), and they serve as evidence that members of our species lived beyond sub-Saharan Africa.

Millions of species lived here for hundreds of millions of years.

Most of the species live in trees and are threatened by deforestation.

Nearly 6.5 million of these species live on land versus 2.2 million in the ocean, according to the analysis.

Hummingbirds are only found in the New World, and the majority of species live in South America.

All kinds of species live on the farm, and some of the animals welcome Babe with open paws, while a few resent the friendly little porker.

It is also likely that students did not include decomposers in their model, as many of these species live in the soil, or are microscopic and not easily observed.

Dozens of species live in standing and prone dead trees at various stages of their life cycles.

Not exact matches

Some notable Diveboard features include: access to an impressive database of more than 2 million species of sea life, a database of nearly 50,000 diving spots throughout the world and integration with Twitter, Flickr and Facebook's sharing features.

The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there - on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

A huge proportion of life depends on them — reefs cover less than 1 % of the ocean floor, yet 25 % of fish species spend some part of their life cycles in them.

But perhaps more importantly, 25 % of fish species spend some part of their life cycle in reefs, despite the fact that they cover less than 1 % of the ocean floor.

Scientists think that this species, Orthacanthus, lived in oily waters in swamps off the coast of Europe and North America, surrounded by hot jungles.

These long - lived animals aren't limited to a particular species, either: Everything from certain types of fish to some tortoises thrive far beyond what we might consider a normal lifespan.

«We have also experienced success in several new markets, including celebrating our first shipment of live lobster to the up - and - coming Brazilian market; expanding our value - added product reach to Australia; rolling - out a line of retail products targeting the emerging middle - class in China; and introducing Propeller Clams, a new clam species, to the sushi - hungry Asian market.»

It is possible to take a different view of intelligent design and believe that life on Earth was created and guided by a previously naturally evolved species that was advanced enough 4 billion years ago to have helped life on Earth get to where it is today.

If humans were not designed by a higher authority, how can each individual's DNA be uniquely different among the human species, especially different than the other animals; how can the life sustaining elements be constantly available and exist in exact formulations: O, H, C etc. water is always 2 atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen; sugar, fats, grains, and any bio-chemical products can be broken down to their simplest forms of elements, but can be re-constructed with specific (not by chance) formula.

Brand New New fossils bringing «Hobbit humans» to life New bones attributed to Ho - mo floresiensis — aka the «Hobbit Human» — along with other recent findings, are helping to reveal what members of this species looked like, how they behaved and their origins.

And so long as we are postulating non-falsifiable claims about life and its origins, I submit that this universe is merely a virtual reality construct of an alien species, a la The Matrix.

Atheists aren't innocent either: eugenics, the belief that certain races do not deserve to live because they could hinder the evolution of the human species.

@Chuckles There are bound to be many semi-intelligent species of life in the universe similar to us in that their organic brains are also subject to a host of perceptual biases left over from previous steps in their evolutionary progression to that state, just like we have as humans.

Why don't you detail the source of the big bang, life, and species.

You say the Bible is full of fairy tales and fables, yet you believe all life forms including plants, trees, insects, birds, fish, reptiles and mammals evolved from one species into another — As if evolution isn't the biggest fairytale of them all.

The day we actually believe this as a species is the day we are free from the idea that something external of us controls our lives.

Richard Dawkins merely states in unvarnished form doctrines that other scientific metaphysicians take for granted: In the beginning were the particles and the impersonal laws of physics; life evolved by a mindless, non-teleological process in which God played no part; and human beings are just another animal species.

So we Christians do not oppose nuclear weapons because they threaten to destroy «mother earth,» but because the God we serve would not have one life unjustly taken even if such a killing would insure the survival of the human species.

If you look at the curent state of living organisms there is little question that the species are devolving rather than evolving.

Quite to the contrary, non-believers view this world, and this life, and the future of our species as things that «matter».

The government doesn't need to recognize marriage (I don't give a hang if they don't recognize my relationship with my wife); the government doesn't need to run public schools (and get into the fight about whether evolution truly explains the origin of species and the origin of life).

There are new generations of life that will continue until our species or the planet dies.

All life forms would be a continual blend of characteristics without a clear definition among the species.

This concept is based on the suggestion that those members of a species that are a little stronger, a little larger, or run a little faster will live longer to procreate offspring with these superior adaptations.

They were a prehistoric species that lived on the island of Crete during the Pleistocene epoch.

So because we haven't found simultaneous existence of another civilization, you can jump to the conclusion that a being not only created the universe, but also created one species of sentient life destined to fulfill the higher purpose of existing to believe in him?

You have eye witness accounts in the bible, you have present day people telling you he's there, knowing he's there, not belief, knowing, you have vast supernatural events like the big bang that happened once and never again, you have life starting up, species forming, male and female that have to be there for offspring, and lo and behold... you deny all of them because God being there, isn't what you wanted.

That platform is a delicate living matrix out of which the human species evolved and on which it is still dependent for life.

Stop worrying about whether or not there is something after the only life you are guaranteed of and start working to save our species - no god will be able to do that, only mankind can and it's people like you who keep waiting for the imaginary second coming that fail society.

But we have seen that a thick formation, fossiliferous throughout its entire thickness, can acc.umulate only during a period of subsidence; and to keep the depth approximately the same, which is necessary that the same marine species may live on the same space, the supply of sediment must nearly counterbalance the amount of subsidence.

«In order to get a perfect gradation between two forms in the upper and lower parts of the same formation, the deposit must have gone on continuously acc.umulating during a long period, sufficient for the slow process of modification; hence the deposit must be a very thick one; and the species, undergoing change must have lived in the same district throughout the whole time.