Sentences with phrase «pygmies living»

He also discovered groups of pygmies living in isolated villages in the densely forested region near the Liang Bua cave.

Eckhardt argues that the bones share many features, such as rotated teeth and a receding chin, with the Rampasasa pygmies living today near the cave where the remains were found.

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The pygmy sloth, the smallest of the sloths that only lives on an island of the Caribbean coast of Panama, is critically endangered.

He's got sites out there making him passive income on guinea pigs, alpacas, body language, Sudoku, wastewater management, pygmy goats, disability, life coaching, Radon, and a wide variety of other markets.

The illustrations he produces are very different to what he does for Pygmy Cloud, but we like a bit of variety in our lives!

Insofar as black bears, pronghorn or pygmy owls live in patches, they form meta - populations.

If the project goes as planned, it will log the living conditions and mental health of most of the thousands of gorillas, chimps, bonobos (pygmy chimps), and orangutans in the United States.

This farming people would then have gradually differentiated genetically from the pygmy hunter - gatherers communities living in forests.

These include such sensational cases as the 1938 finding of a living coelacanth, a fish that was presumed to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs; the 1966 discovery of Australia's mountain pygmy possum, previously known only from bones found in a cave; and the 1951 rediscovery of the cahow, or Bermuda petrel, then thought to have been extinct since the 1620s.

He was born in Loja province in southern Ecuador, where he often saw very short people known as pigmeitos — loosely translated as the diminutive form of pygmies — living in small towns.

Hippocampus satomiae: This pygmy sea horse, which lives off the coast of Derawan Island in Borneo, is the smallest of its kind, about half an inch long.

Other long - tailed tits and bushtits are temperate birds, but the pygmy bushtit lives only in the western part of the Indonesian island of Java, in tropical open forests and plantations above 1000 metres.

Statistical analyses aimed at reconstructing how much an adult Archicebus would have weighed in life show that it was slightly smaller than the smallest living primates, which are pygmy mouse lemurs from Madagascar.

Researchers believe pygmies» short stature evolved to equip them for their brief lives in the jungle; smaller bodies may move more nimbly through dense forest or be better able to dissipate heat.

And the Pygmies, who live in dense jungle habitat, have remained some of the smallest people on the planet, with adult males seldom topping 1.5 meters.

The average life span for a pygmy is only about 17 years; a leading cause of death is infectious disease carried by the miasma of microbes that flourish in the hot, moist jungle.

They're small (the word pygmy refers to any group in whom adult males are under 1.52 meters), they live and hunt in tropical forests, and they die young.

So she and postdoc Joseph Lachance, along with a multinational team, sequenced the DNA of three hunter - gatherer groups living in Africa today: the Hadza and Sandawe from Tanzania and the Pygmies from Cameroon, some of the most ancient lineages in the world.

Their close cousins, the even less frequent pygmy chimps, or bonobos (P. paniscus), live in matriarchal societies where the stress is on reconciliation, all anxieties smoothed over by liberal applications of sex, in all possible combinations.

Our bodies are imbued with life energy or life force, (Qi or Chi in China, Ki in Japan, Prana in India and Tibet, Waken by the Lakotas, Orenda by the Iroquois, Megbe by the Ituri Pygmies, and The Holy Spirit by the Christian tradition) which connects us to universal life force or divine life energy.

Pocket God, the popular iOS game in which users plot the lives and demise of mischievous pygmies, developed from game status to comic status in a relatively short time to become the first iOS game to have its own comic series.

«Pocket God Comics issue No. 1 «The Gem of Life — Part One» starts with Ooga questioning the Gods and their relentless Pygmy pounding, but the gods strike back, taking away the gift of immortality bestowed upon the islanders and forcing Ooga and the gang on a dangerous mission to recharge the Gem of Life, which fades a little more with each new Pygmy death,» stated a press release issued by the comic creators.

Fight Club (1996) created a mythology from the inner lives of alienated Gen X-ers, and Pygmy (2009) daringly tweaked fears of terrorism and school shootings, heedless of our jangled nerves.

That lifestyle had carrier over into my adult life, and I've be lucky enough to marry someone who supports me in all of my «animal projects,» the most recent of which is bottle raising a baby pygmy goat.

He has lived outside with a pygmy goat and a Great Dane.

And while the Bargibanti Pygmy Seahorse is usually found living on pinkish colored fans, the Denise is assumed to more often reside on orange fans (though not always).

The diversity of marine life is exceptional and Bali provides one of the few opportunities for divers to see the mighty mola (oceanic sunfish — mola ramsayi) manta rays and other large pelagics — but diving in Bali is not only for «big fish» enthusiasts, macro divers have a selection of treats awaiting them too — the pygmy sea horse, frogfishes, ghost pipe fish and a plethora of nudibranch species to name but a few can all be found on Bali's fringing coral reefs.

Amed's dive sites have pretty corals and offer some great macro marine life such as leaf scorpion fish, pygmy seahorse and cuttlefish, as well as occasionally larger marine life such as turtles and if you are lucky white - tip and black - tip reefsharks.

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Flightless geese, giant mice, and pygmy mammoths are extinct, while the island fox, spotted skunk, and munchkin dudleya (one of six plant species found only on this island) still live here.

At the moment we know exactly where to find pygmy seahorses, ornate ghost pipefish, stargazer, frogfish and more incredible marine life such as the flamboyant cuttlefish (that we named animal of the month in march) and the blue ringed octopus.

The reefs are full of bright soft corals and colorful corals, which harbor an amazing variety of rare marine life, including ghost pipe fish, leaf fish, pygmy seahorses and much more.

The density of coral, sponge and fish life is incredible, even the infamous pygmy seahorse is occasionally spotted here.

One of the most famous dive sites in Bali, the famous USAT liberty wreck in Tulamben, is covered with a striking array of coral and colourful and diverse marine live, including sweet lips, moray eels, turtles, Pygmy seahorse and much more.

She lives in Olympia, Washington with her partner, and four pygmy goats.

Pygmy sized creatures up to the largest living animal on the Planet!

The rare southern brown bandicoots and western pygmy possums and brightly coloured parrots live here in abundance.

Dolphins, manta rays, reef sharks, giant trevallies, mobula rays circling the boat lights at night, a brooding jawfish with a mouthful of eggs, pygmy seahorses, frogfish, ghost pipefish, very healthy reef fish life and innumerable crustaceans and invertebrates.

As for the smaller life, our dive guides spotted Pygmy Seahorses for the guests.

With an extensive soft coral garden hosting plenty of xenia specimens, some macro life was found: nudibranchs, like the Chromodoris and Flabellina, flatworms, Orangutan and Porcelain Crab and also the Raja Ampat Denise Pygmy Seahorse!

Great underwater scenery, and a great place for macro photography — Living around the soft corals you can find critters including pygmy seahorses, decorator crabs, and many small commensal species living with criLiving around the soft corals you can find critters including pygmy seahorses, decorator crabs, and many small commensal species living with criliving with crinoids.

Among the marine life seen, some of the highlights to be mentioned were nudibranchs, including the genus Phidiana, Orangutan Crab and our first Pygmy Seahorse, a Denise specimen, for the macro lovers.

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.

The visibility, even though limited, did nt keep the divers from encountering a Barramundi Grouper, a couple of Wobbeng Sharks, a Pygmy Seahorse, a Crocodile Flathead together with other macro life found (nudibranchs and flatworms) on the hard and soft coral present especially on the shallower part of the dive site.

The macro life spotted were, in between others, Pygmy Seahorse, Porcelain Crab, nudibranchs and Tasseled Scorpionfish.

Abundant and diverse marine life, ranging from huge schools of fish, to mantas and sharks, to blue ring octopus, pygmy sea horses, many types of nudibranches.

On top of that, macro life and critters were pointed out by our divemasters, like the Denise Pygmy Seahorse, Ringed Pipefish and also a couple of Wobbegong Sharks.

To be mentioned regarding marine life seen on this dive: Giant Mantis Shrimp, Bargibanty Pygmy Seahorse, school of Yellow Snappers and Oriental Sweet lips, Wobbegong Shark, Black tip Sharks and Giant Clams.

As it is usually the case on this site, plenty of macro life and critters were pointed out by our dive masters: Nudibranchs, like the Thecacera, Flabellina and Nembrotha, Reef Octopus, Bargibanti and Denise Pygmy Seahorse (including the color variation of the last specie that is found only on this region of the world), in between others, filled this dive with pleasant surprises.

To name only a few of all the amazing sea life we could observe: many varieties of Pygmy seahorse, beautiful broccoli corals, wobbegong, giant clams, epaulette shark, and many more.