Sentences with phrase «toward giant sizes»
Pegging the trend toward giant sizes to the Plio - Pleistocene ruled out other hypotheses such as the threat of predation by the huge shark megalodon — which had already been around for millions of years before the whales» growth spurt — or the advent of filter feeding, which had been around for more than 15 million years at that point.
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This highlights the transition away from the massive gas giants that characterized Kepler's first finds and more toward planets that are in the right size range to potentially host life as we know it.
Massive Arctic ice island drifting toward shipping lanes The biggest Arctic «ice island» to form in nearly 50 years — a 250 - square - kilometer behemoth described as four times the size of Manhattan — has been discovered after a Canadian scientist scanning satellite images of northwest Greenland spotted a giant break in the famed Petermann Glacier.Canada.com — Aug 07 10:16 am In another research, using Autosub, an autonomous underwater vehicle, researchers led by the British Antarctic Survey have captured ocean and sea - floor measurements, which revealed a 300 meter high ridge on the sea floor.