Sentences with phrase «sized lemur»

National Geographic has funded research on lemurs here, including an extinct gorilla - sized lemur species whose remains were found in the park's caves.

They also hunted the native megafauna to extinction centuries ago, including the tratratratra, a gorilla - size lemur that weighed up to 400 pounds, and the elephant bird, which weighed nearly half a ton and may have been the inspiration for a 13th - century tale of a giant bird that carried Sinbad the Sailor to safety.

Not exact matches

Spire currently has 12 of its shoebox - sized CubeSats, called «Lemurs,» in low - Earth orbit — all that's necessary to meet NOAA's requirements, Platzer says.

The northern giant mouse lemur has the biggest balls of the primate world, compared to body size, and seems to have sex all the time, doing without mating seasons

That may explain the absurd size of the gonads of the male mouse lemur, seen above.

This is a photograph of the greater bamboo lemur is a small cat sized primate living on the island of Madagascar and is considered to be one of the most endangered primates on Earth.

By the end of the summer, the interns had come up with the mouse lemur, which fits all the necessary criteria: Like mice, these animals are small (about twice the size of a mouse), develop quickly, reproduce rapidly, produce many offspring, and are inexpensive and easy to maintain and manage.

Two strains of Bd have been sequenced: JEL423, taken from Phyllomedusa lemur in Panama, and JAM81, taken from Rana muscosa in California, U. S. A. Bd genome size is estimated to be 23.7 Mb for strain JEL423 and 24.3 Mb for strain JAM81, encompassing about 9000 genes (Rosenblum et al. 2008).