Sentences with phrase «think such habitats»

So evolving intelligence seems likely, given a propitious habitat — and astronomers think such habitats are common.

Not exact matches

They thought Methanococcus jannaschii and other archaea — microbes with similarly exotic habitats and tastes, such as a love of sulfur or salt — were just quirky bacteria.

Even several species such as the red shiner and sand shiner, which were thought to be plentiful, are declining as a result of reduced stream habitat, according to Perkin, who was the lead researcher for the study and is now an assistant professor at Texas A&M University.

Professor Poinar continues, «Mammoths were much better at adapting to new habitats than we first thought — we suspect that subgroups of mammoths evolved to deal with local conditions, but maintained genetic continuity by encountering and potentially interbreeding with each other where their two different habitats met, such as at the edge of glaciers and ice sheets.»

Students can also record speculative information, such as how old they think the object is or what it's original habitat might be.

Other issues include straddling stocks (relevant in the Belize / Honduras / Guatemala area), harvesting of marine resources such as sea slugs / cucumbers (which was certainly never thought of 1948), protection of mangroves, seagrass and other marine habitat, etc..

When did the first man or woman think about buttressing such a habitat using tree limbs?

The bad news may be even worse: the species depends critically on highly saline large lakes (Mono Lake, Great Salt Lake, etc.) for its mid-summer molt, and such habitats are widely thought to be already deteriorating because of climate change.