Sentences with phrase «species inhabiting islands»

They possess high levels of «Neophilia», which is the tendency of an individual to explore novel items and is believed to have evolved in species inhabiting islands, as there they might face fewer or no predators.

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Bones found in the Langenberg Quarry confirm that the islands were inhabited by a species of small dinosaurs, Europasaurus holgeri.

NOVEL APE Orangutans inhabiting part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra belong to a previously unrecognized species, scientists report.

Some 150 million years ago in what is now Northern Bavaria, Archaeopteryx — the oldest bird species yet discovered — inhabited a subtropical environment characterized by reef islands and lagoons set in a shallow sea that was part of the primordial Mediterranean.

Connecticut is home to 12 native turtle species that inhabit the state's woodlands, wetlands, and even the waters of Long Island Sound.

More than 7,000 plant and animal species make their homes here, and more than half of the bird species found on the entire continent inhabit the Sky Islands.

The State of Connecticut is home to 12 native turtle species that inhabit our woodlands, wetlands, and even the waters of Long Island Sound.

Bird Island is inhabited by a variety of species — all of which can not fly.

The island is inhabited only by a small group of animals, one of each species -LRB-?!)

What Johnston might have added is that most of the feral cat presence is not associated with any loss of endangered species, since most of the 20 Australian native species that cats are alleged to have helped to kill to extinction inhabited only small offshore islands.

Then fly to Kangaroo Island to experience close encounters with the unique species that inhabit «Australia's Galapagos.»

At Marco Gonzalas and throughout the island, there are numerous crabs (Coenibita species) that inhabit the shells of gastropods once discarded by the Maya and now unearthed by archaeologists.

Enjoy the opportunity to see some of the 67 species of birds that inhabit Kangaroo Island on a bushwalk looking for the rare Kangaroo Island Glossy Black cockatoo.

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The azure waters that surround the islands are inhabited by an astonishing array of marine creatures; over 1,200 species of fish including clown fish, trigger fish, blue tangs, 12 species of whales and dolphin, anemones, soft coral and much more.

Because the GARDEN ISLE is the oldest of the inhabited islands, nature has had millions of years to develop its reefs and the hundreds of species of fish — some found nowhere else in the world — that populate them....

The northern and southern ends of the Caye are sparsely populated so they're natural sanctuaries for the 150 species of birds that inhabit the island.

FEATURES * Harness the unique strengths of over 45 new species that inhabit the island.

Stories: The Hidden Path (also known as Stories: The Path of Destinies) takes the player to a region filled with floating islands, inhabited by several species of anthropomorphic animals.

And more importantly, it will help boost populations of the roughly 130 threatened shark species that inhabit the waters around Palau, whose territory encompasses 200 scattered islands.

This will have a knock - on effect on the animal species that inhabit these islands, as well as having serious implications for the carbon balance of hydropower dams relative to other sources of energy.