Sentences with phrase «size as the ants»

Not exact matches

But the trap - jaw ant can swim ten times as fast as Olympic champion Michael Phelps, relative to its body size.

Using observational studies and experiments, the researchers discovered that a third partner, scale insects, are the most important resource affecting ant colony size and activity, as well as their effective defense against predators.

Sequence of photos shows a squad of ants over 4 hours as they move in and take apart a palm - sized spider left as a sacrifice by a curious photographer

Pym wears a small device behind his ear that allows him to instruct the ants to act as a phalanx of attackers that helps the ant - sized human hero defeat an evil mastermind.

With their unusually large brains relative to their body size and advanced cognition, parrots live in a complex social environment — not merely in a large population of cooperating creatures, such as bees or ants, but in a dynamic setting of alliances and competitors.

«As animals increase in size, the amount of body surface area per volume decreases — an ant has a lot of surface area and very little volume, and a blue whale is mostly volume with not much surface area» explains Labonte.

That's a start, but it's still unknown which workers do the digging, whether they have this directional bias individually or as a group, or how the number of ants may influence nest size and shape.

As the colony size increased, the leaf ants showed a marked increase in the regions of the brain concerned with learning and memory, the scientists report today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

In a study published in the open access scientific journal eLife, Roberto A. Keller and Patrícia Beldade from the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC, Portugal), in collaboration with Christian Peeters from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France), showed that ants grow the size of their thoracic segments differently according to the specialized tasks they will perform as adults.

The CGI is as pleasant as usual in these special effects laden extravaganzas, though the life - sized ants look incredibly artificial.

There's actually more than one Ant - Man in the film, as we start with the original, Dr. Hank Pym (Douglas, And So It Goes), a leading scientist, and inventor of the «Pym Particle», which allows things, including people, to shrink own to ant - size, or more, but with enhanced strengAnt - Man in the film, as we start with the original, Dr. Hank Pym (Douglas, And So It Goes), a leading scientist, and inventor of the «Pym Particle», which allows things, including people, to shrink own to ant - size, or more, but with enhanced strengant - size, or more, but with enhanced strength.

Downey Jr shined as Tony Stark for the same reason, and» Ant - Man» is full of jokes for their own sake — like Michael Pena's chatterbox comic sidekick — as well as tongue in cheek nods about how frankly ridiculous an ant - sized superhero Ant - Man» is full of jokes for their own sake — like Michael Pena's chatterbox comic sidekick — as well as tongue in cheek nods about how frankly ridiculous an ant - sized superhero ant - sized superhero is.

But despite maintaining a level of jocularity about the premise, the film manages the impressive trick of making an ant - sized superhero as exciting and thrilling as that of any other MCU character.

Story-wise, Ant - Man sticks to the basics, introducing Michael Douglas as Hank Pym, a physicist who has developed a suit that allows the wearer to shrink in size while retaining his or her proportional strength.

In addition to the list of 86th Academy Award winners, we've also got the latest on «Star Wars: Episode VII,» «Jurassic World» and «Ant - Man» casting as well as a newly acquired property that could be a «Lego» - sized success for Warner Bros., a possible new «Matrix» trilogy and more.

It would have been easy for casual moviegoers to literally overlook this pint - sized hero when he first appeared in the MCU, so it's to the credit of Marvel and star, Paul Rudd, that Ant - Man did as well as it did.

Michalakis says that if a human is shrunk to the size of an ant, then he would be really strong as per the size of an ant, but not than a regular human.

«Ant - Man», due to begin production in April, stars Paul Rudd as Scott Lang, the desperate father who steals Dr. Hank Pym's (Michael Douglas) technology, which enables a human to change size.

The shifts in size, as well as Ant - Man's ability to make other objects grow and contract when necessary, make for some clever action sequences and funny moments.

One of the least popularly followed Marvel superheroes, Ant - Man follows biochemist Dr. Hank Pym as he discovers a size - altering formula and the subsequent troubles and action when testing the formula on himself goes awry.

Real heroes, not actually size as Marvel Studios releases the newest official trailer for their upcoming superhero feature Ant - Man and the Wasp.

As promised at Monday night's red - carpet premiere of Black Panther, Marvel Studios has released the teaser trailer for Ant - Man and The Wasp, which brings together Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne as partners, and unleashes a giant - size Hello Kitty Pez dispenseAs promised at Monday night's red - carpet premiere of Black Panther, Marvel Studios has released the teaser trailer for Ant - Man and The Wasp, which brings together Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne as partners, and unleashes a giant - size Hello Kitty Pez dispenseas partners, and unleashes a giant - size Hello Kitty Pez dispenser.

Paul Rudd stars as an insect - sized superhero in Marvel's Ant - Man, also starring Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Michael Peña, and Michael Douglas.

And since miniaturization is the whole schtick of Ant - Man, we get to gee Marvel's famous and often seamless special effects, this time dealing with the world of bugs the size of elephants, carpet fibers like great stalks of corn and an army of various ants that help Lang defeat as many bad guys as possible.

Clarisse sizes up Marvel's Ant - Man, which stars Paul Rudd as the diminutive comic book hero alongside Michael Douglas and Evangeline Lilly.

Severely behind on child - support payments, Lang agrees to join Luis on one last job, breaking into the home of Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), a reclusive tech millionaire who once battled wrongdoers as a size - altering, insect - controlling superhero named Ant - Man.

The movie follows Michael Douglas as Dr. Hank Pym, a biochemist who discovers a formula that allows Scott Lang AKA Ant - Man (Paul Rudd) to alter his size and communicate with bugs.

Well there's no need to continue trying to zoom in on that footage anymore, as today Marvel released a human - sized Ant - Man...

The 17 - second clip features «ant - sized» clips of the upcoming movie, which normal - sized people just see as very small box in the middle of the video.

Marvel has released the full - sized, full - length trailer for «Ant - Man,» starring Paul Rudd as Scott Lang — a master thief who can harness the ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength.

Another new origin story from Marvel, this time introducing us to Scott Lang as Ant - Man, a superhero who can shrink in size and communicate with ants.

Her casting suggests we might see some past action, especially with Laurence Fishburne as Goliath, a giant - sized running mate of the original Ant - Man and Wasp team.

The former Catwoman will star as the original size - shifting superhero (you may remember she was lost to the Quantum Realm during a flashback mission gone wrong in Ant - Man).

Paul Rudd as Scott Lang, the corporate burglar turned size - changing superhero, Ant - Man; Michael Douglas as Hank Pym, the original Ant - Man; Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne, Hank's daughter and Ant - Man's partner, the Wasp; Michelle Pfeiffer as Hope's mother, the original Wasp; and others.

-- and thus, the Wasp should, at the very least, be as fun of a pint - sized hero in Ant - Man and the Wasp as Ant - Man was in the original.

Pym, it turns out, years before created a particle that allows him to change the distance between atoms, essentially allowing the person to shrink themselves down to the size of an ant, but retaining the strength they did as a full - sized person.

Based, obviously, on the Marvel hero, Ant - Man stars Paul Rudd as Scott Lang, an ex-convict who steals a high - tech suit that can diminish the size of the wearer while increasing their strength («You're like a bullet,» Evangeline Lily's Hope Van Dyne tells Scott).

Newspapers start reporting that some battalions of tanks are missing and they are simply written off as killed - in - action; however, it turns out that the enemy has somehow shrunk down you and your crew to smaller than bug size and now you're fighting to simply survive against hoards of ants, moths, spiders, and more things that are much larger than you.

Ants the size of double - decker buses (hilariously referred to as «Buggernauts») roam the streets of London and Tokyo.

Playing as the gunship is essentially a turret section where you have to attack opponents the size of ants that appear in your line of sight infrequently.