Sentences with phrase «strange creatures from»

CT scans of a unique 3D fossil offers the first look inside one of these strange creatures from before the dawn of true animals.

That is, until a strange creature from South America arrives at the facility.

Not exact matches

Smith and Denton have an urgent message: stop defining adolescence as «a social problem» and adolescents as «alien creatures, strange and menacing beings, perhaps even monsters driven by raging hormones, visiting us from another planet.»

In spite of the fact that Socrates studied with all diligence to acquire a knowledge of human nature and to understand himself, and in spite of the fame accorded him through the centuries as one who beyond all other men had an insight into the human heart, he has himself admitted that the reason for his shrinking from reflection upon the nature of such beings as Pegasus and the Gorgons was that he, the life - long student of human nature, had not yet been able to make up his mind whether he was a stranger monster than Typhon, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, partaking of something divine (Phaedrus, 229 E).

By some strange coincidence, those exact words also appear in Pliny's Naturalis Historia as a description of the bonnacon, a mythical creature from Macedonia that — yes, you did read that last bit correctly — runs away from any and all confrontation, leaving a fountain of flaming shit in its wake.

There are many people and creatures in this world whose lives would be changed by one simple gesture from a kind stranger — teach him that!

Think of it — Earthlings abducted by beings from the sky, humans morphing into strange creatures, and events that defy the laws of nature.

Aegirocassis is a member of a group of creatures called anomalocaridids, a name derived from the Latin words for «strange shrimp.»

Maybe you are a rare creature who gets off from licking a stranger, maybe you are insanely talented this way and infinitely patient?

Based on the all - new CGI TMNT movie, Ubisoft's TMNT video game takes place in New York City, a city plagued with fast - moving shadows and attacks from strange creatures.

The animators invoke worlds upon worlds in «Mary and the Witch's Flower:» the green woods and mist - filled forests of England rendered in swooning evocative watercolors, and the show - stopping Endor, a psychedelic space from out of a dream or drug trip, packed with strange objects, unexplainable phenomena, students floating by in soap bubbles, fountains morphing into human form, grotesque creatures loping out of the shrubbery and disappearing.

A high school senior befriends a strange subterranean creature after building a monster truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars.

Although Miller admits the idea was inspired by the Dracula story, whether blood - thirsty creatures of the night will infiltrate the narrative (telling the tale of a series of strange events that befall a young girl and her widowed mother upon a visit from an enigmatic uncle) is purely the subject of conjecture.

Jebediah catches glimpses of strange creatures and people in the corners of his eyes and significant items from his dark past mysteriously appear and trigger thoughts of his criminal past.

How could Activision's two - year - old series filled with strange creatures unfamiliar to children compete with the likes of Mickey Mouse and Anna and Elsa from Frozen?

In this visually striking fantasy from Guillermo del Toro, director of Pan's Labyrinth, she plays a young mute woman who finds an unlikely soulmate: the strange aquatic creature held in captivity at the laboratory where she works.

Sophie stumbles onto Howl's strange mobile household, a walking contraption of gears, pulleys, balconies and apertures that resembles one of the bloated creatures from Terry Gilliam's «Monty Python's Flying Circus» animation.

Ready or not, you're getting it in Nickelodeon - ILM's seriously strange «Rango,» which is populated by the kind of reptilian creatures that could only slither from Hunter S. Thompson's zonked - out subconscious.

The film follows several grizzled marines - including Sarge (The Rock) and John Grimm (Karl Urban)- as they arrive on Mars to investigate the strange happenings there, and it's not long before the soldiers find themselves under attack from a host of strange and unusual creatures.

Hammer Films Collection: Volume Two [Creatures the World Forgot / The Revenge of Frankenstein / Maniac / Never Take Candy from a Stranger / The Snorkel / Die!

From the Loch Ness monster of Scotland to Ogopogo of Lake Okanagan in British Columbia, stories have surfaced about sighting strange sea creatures.

Other titles new to MUBI this week: Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold, 1954) Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968) Reality (Matteo Garrone, 2012) The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher, 2013) Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Park Chan - wook, 2005)

Two well - worn inspirations in Beauty and the Beast and Creature from the Black Lagoon are evident, but even video games like Fallout and Bioshock and literature such as Stranger in a Strange Land appear to help build the 1960's world showcased here.

When two strange new M.U.T.O.'s (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms) hatch from their chrysalis, Godzilla's dormant slumber ends, as the big G reveals himself to the world to take on the M.U.T.O.'s, and the military decides the best course of action to take against creatures they don't yet understand.

From the emotional making of a low - budget slasher to zombie nightmares, Gothic horrors, an outrageously strange mind cult, a sci - fi alien action extravaganza, a comic strip creature feature and the last word in Killer Clowns, this year - s line - up is an eclectic mix of the quirky, unusual and extreme.

Percy Jackson, the half - human / half - god son of Poseidon, and his half brother Tyson face all kinds of strange mythical creatures while trying to retrieve the legendary Golden Fleece from an island located in the Sea of Monsters.

But then strange yellow mushrooms begin to sprout from the women's graves, which grow into faceless walking fungus creatures.

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Never mind finding the dragon's treasure or defeating the Demon Lord, you only need to worry about one thing — how to stay alive.A group of teenagers wake up in a strange, fantastical land with creatures from myth and legend.

A horrible infection has fallen over a desolate town in this short horror story.The townsfolk are forced into action to protect themselves from further outbreaks caused by an addicting berry that grows amongst the base of large boulders.When Emmie returns home to find one of The Lost in her backyard, she suspects the strange berries have grown back, but confronting this horrible human creature unfolds a great realization — one that would challenge her beliefs of The Lost.This story is merely a glimpse of Kenneth W. Cain's work, so if you enjoy «Desolate,» be sure to pick up Kenneth's Embers: A Collection of Dark Fiction, available from Crystal Lake Publishing — Tales from the Darkest Depths...

When Jens, a handsome yet irritable stranger, saves her life, Lucy's gratitude is cut short when he abducts her, taking her to a land filled with people and creatures she remembers from bedtime stories she assumed were just Scandinavian folklore.

Being blind from birth, they have no idea what this strange creature is, but when one monk feels the elephant's leg, he concludes «an elephant is just like a tree,» and when another monk feels the trunk, he disagrees, saying «an elephant is just like a snake,» and so on.

These strange creatures come up from the deeper waters with the cold currents (18 — 24 degrees) to be cleaned at the dive sites around Nusa Penida and Nusa Lembongan.

Only 10 minutes from places like the Raja Ampat Dive Resort, it can also be done as a night dive, when you will find a completely different set of critters like sponge crabs, walking sharks, harlequin shrimps and many other strange and amazing creatures.

Diving into the water Espen's mother gives chase and winds up transported to a strange island inhabited by creatures and legends from Norse lore.

These dangers only get worse as daylight fades, and night brings to life a variety of strange shadow creatures: terrifying enemies that can spawn in any amount of darkness and only shy away from copious amounts of light.

- the protagonist meets Tico, a mysterious bird - like creature - Tico leads you to the World of Icarnus, a truly magical place where the Incarnus live - monsters here are huge and they also drop a lot more items than regular monsters - in some places, you will be able to witness monsters fighting each other - use your drone to watch the fight from up close, but from a safe distance - there's a mysterious village that seems to be abandoned - there are some facilities in there run by Incarnus - there's a store run by a frog - like Incarnus, which stocks some rare items - this village has a strange structure that looks like an altar - the Incarnus are said to be pretty close to the gods

There are a hand full of enemies to face, from strange cat like creatures that kill you upon touching them, to over sized frogs that spit out ninja throwing stars.

Thanks to Oscorp and some accidental help from Spider - Man, there's an outbreak of of animal men and a cross-species virus that's transforming the residents of New York into strange creatures.

Dubbed Trico, this creature will ultimately join you on your adventure to escape this strange area and maybe reach your home, wherever it is you came from.

Meet a host of eccentric characters, from fussy bureaucrats to mercenary bees; upgrade your weapons and defences, acquiring new abilities that open up previously inaccessible areas; do battle with all kinds of strange creatures, including five bosses.

Missions take place in ten different environments, with settings that range from a jungle planet thick with strange vegetation and dangerous creatures to an arid desert world spotted with the ancient ruins of forgotten civilizations.

Strategies that must be employed by the player in Escape Plan include pushing platforms into position, raising elevators, tilting the Vita to float around obstacles, herding sheep - like creatures into place, cushioning falls with objects from the environment, and even taunting minions into dying by tapping the rear touch pad; the little enemies are incredibly stupid, happy to jump to messy deaths simply to investigate a strange sound.

With an enduring «capacity for inspiring genuine delight as well as provoking disquiet,» 3 examples in Western cultures range from the satyrs in Greco - Roman mythology to early medieval church gargoyles to Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights (1490 — 1500), Peter Paul Rubens's two versions of The Massacre of the Innocents (c. 1611 — 1612 and c. 1638), William Blake's Nebuchadnezzar (c. 1795 — 1805), and Goya's The Disasters of War (1810 — 1820) and Black Paintings (1820 — 1823), in which strange creatures, disembodied heads, and diabolical tableaux meet masterful artistic skill and poignant existential resonance.

Centerfolds, cartoon creatures, commercial facades and strange street characters populate my work, reflecting Mexican culture's condition of colonization and its customization of American icons; all with the purpose of conveying a personal baroque narrative that resembles an abstract urban, chaotic sediment reminiscent of Tijuana, Mexico, the city I come from.»

Citizen Science Project Plans to Find Out Strange Animals that Glow in the Dark Learning From Mycelium: Why the Most Important Activism Remains Unseen 8 brilliant bioluminescent creatures

Photos of Strange Deep Sea Creatures from Marine Census Beyond Sunlight 28.

From a giant squid that shines light on its prey before attack to a fish that oozes glowing slime to a few scientific creations, here are some really strange creatures that glow in the dark.