Sentences with phrase «special adaptations like»

Mangroves, with special adaptations like the ability to filter salt and make their own freshwater, roots that intake air above the soil and leaves that can secrete excess salt, resulting in salt crystals on their leaves, are made to survive in areas like this.

Not exact matches

The Street Fighter movie holds a special place in my heart alongside other video game adaptations from the»90s like Super Mario Bros. and Mortal Kombat: I know that technically they're not good movies or whatever, but who cares?
He clearly knows what he's doing being no stranger to brilliant period pieces, like the 1996 line - for - line adaptation of Shakespeare's «Hamlet» and, most recently, special effects action flicks, «Thor» (2011) and «Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit» (2013).
This is a simple and understandable adaptation for a hunting animal like the cat — there is no need for them to have special enzymes or metabolic pathways to digest and convert nutrients in plants to what they need, when it is present already in the animals they prey on!
Special adaptationslike bony tubercules on its nostrils to redirect air flow and «third eyelids» to keep its vision clear — remind us that this falcon is one of nature's most finely engineered creatures.
The Street Fighter movie holds a special place in my heart alongside other video game adaptations from the»90s like Super Mario Bros. and Mortal Kombat: I know that technically they're not good movies or whatever, but who cares?
Meehl, who has been involved with IPCC reports since the first assessment in 1990, noted that previous reports were still «reliable» sources of information, as were special reports like the upcoming one on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation, to be released on 18 November.
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