Sentences with phrase «trees near the base»

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Impressions left by a large claw on the innermost toe on the dinosaur's front foot (the analog of the human thumb) indicate that the still - unknown species was located near the base of the sauropod family tree, and the sizes of the footprints — in some cases 70 centimeters across — suggest that the behemoths grew to reach 15 meters in length and weighed up to 10 metric tons, the researchers report online today in the Scottish Journal of Geology.

The 10 - centimeter (4 - inch) long Xenoturbella churro, named for its resemblance to the popular fried - dough pastry, is one of four species recently discovered that lie near the base of the evolutionary tree of animals.

Past work by Corrie Moreau, an evolutionary biologist at the Field Museum in Chicago, who was not involved with this study, revealed that one of the supersoldier species is located near the base of the Pheidole family tree, closely related to the ancestral ant, while other supersoldier species were scattered within the tree.

So - called RNA viruses are rogues: smaller, fast - replicating shape - shifters, descended from a time that evolutionary biologists refer to as the RNA world, back near the base of life's tree, before today's DNA - based organisms evolved.

It found that for trees in the comfortable middle of their range, down near the base of a mountain, their offspring thrived nearby in the rich, microbe - filled soil collected right below their parent.

But newly described, well - preserved fossils of a creature near the base of the shark's family tree contradict that notion.

In this physics based driving and crashing game you must maneuver an endless mountainside dodging hazardous terrain such as trees, rocks, traffic and trains resulting in some fun and hilarious near misses and crashes.

Only as the truck neared the base of a 95 - meter - tall wind turbine did the silvery - white blades become visible among the trees.

A mortality map of the Amazon near Manaus, Brazil based on Landsat satellite images shows the spatial pattern of tree mortality.

But I can see that they apparently were looking to cut their samples much lower on the trees: «The best - preserved material from an individual tree is usually found at the base of the trunk, near to the roots.

The project is based in the selective logging of ancient trees and super efficient use of wood in Lenga forests near Corcovado, Chubut province.

Often the selection will be based as much on thinning an overcrowded stand or managing an invasive species as it will on that tree being the nearest with a 10 inch diameter trunk.

(Beetles reproduce far more effectively in larger trees and near the tree base, because the phloem food source is thicker there.)

Speculation that Chesapeake, Virginia - based Dollar Tree would prevail increased last week when Institutional Shareholder Services Inc., an influential proxy adviser for large investors, recommended accepting the offer because of its «near certainty» of closing.