Sentences with phrase «sabre tooth»

If a person believes in evolution then change is always for the better, but when a sabre tooth tiger evolves to be able to run faster and have longer sabre teeth that means that some other critter may not see that as a change for the better.

The amygdala is the most primitive part of our brains and, when under stress, activates the «fight, flight or freeze» response (helpful when facing a sabre tooth tiger but it shuts down our ability to problem - solve).

In Primal your goal is to survive and push back the wildnerness, battling mammoths, sabre tooth tigers and other tribes along the way.

Lopez is Shira, a sexy sabre tooth who wins the heart of Denis Leary's Diego.

I'm sure a there were a lot of prehistoric parents telling their kids «NO Son, DO NOT pet the sabre tooth kitty!».

Not exact matches

Children's brains have adapted to modern times though so instead of sabre - tooth tigers it is now monsters which haunt our young children at night since these are the threatening figures that our little ones are exposed to in books and television shows.

Sabre - teeth, for example, turn out to be convergent, and Conway Morris explains why it is that the clouded leopard of Asia, Neofelis nebulosa, has developed features that could, as it evolves «presage the emergence of a new sabre - tooth,» although sadly it looks set to become extinct before this happens.

There are suggestions that the clouded leopard may show a primitive form of sabre - toothedness — although there is some debate over whether or not its teeth are large enough relative to its skull for it to qualify as a true sabre - toothed cat.

Large canines may be fearsome weapons, but their size makes them prone to fracture — and yet very few fossil sabre - toothed cats have broken teeth.

Naples has another theory: she thinks the sabre - tooth adaptation evolved so the opossum could kill prey larger than its body size would suggest.

A sabre - toothed cat that sported the fearsome teeth of felines also had the body and gait of a bear, making it a «super-predator».

So says a team led by Stephen Wroe at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, which found that the ferocious marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) shared the same super-predator body plan as Smilodon fatalis, North America's ice age sabre - tooth cat.

These tar pits became the resting place for unlucky prehistoric animals, including mammoths, sabre - tooth cats and wolves.

In evolutionary terms, you've successfully escaped a sabre - tooth tiger and that's why the «flight - or - fight» response remains with us today.

Then there's the sabre - tooth tiger couple Diego (voiced by Denis Leary) and Shira (voiced by Jennifer Lopez), who this time do little more than briefly discuss the possibility of having a child (a discussion that lasts maybe a total minute of screentime).

You are not running from a sabre - tooth tiger.

If you enjoy living in forests, hunting sabre - tooth tigers and murdering absolutely anything that moves, then good news!

JS: The sabre - tooths seem at the same time to float above and alongside the viewers.