Sentences with phrase «undiscovered species»

But it» s estimated that the number of undiscovered species — primarily fish, fungi, insects, and microbes — ranges from ten million to more than one hundred million.

In an otherwise pleasant but predictable array of work from today's best and brightest, and their forebears, Mr. Malouf's pieces are the exotic, as - yet - undiscovered species.

The Amazon Basin is still home to many undiscovered species of wildlife and is home to many indigenous tribes who have never been contacted by modern society.

Zoologist Kristofer Helgen is a National Geographic Explorer who has led research expeditions to remote areas on almost every continent in his search for undiscovered species.

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Others, including as of yet undiscovered species, might have gone extinct without any descendents.

For the authors, the results from this multi-approach effort amounted to recognizing five well - delimited species in the genus, while also describing a previously undiscovered species.

Elaborate multimedia compositions let visitors fly alongside the researchers deep into the Andean wilderness, braving storms, swarms of insects, and tropical diseases to create inventories of the undocumented and undiscovered species there: new frogs, ferns, and orchids.

Thousands of feet below the ocean's surface lies a hidden world of undiscovered species and unique seabed habitats — as well as a vast untapped store of natural resources including valuable metals and rare - earth minerals.

Although relatively well known, this group still may have as many as 1,000 undiscovered species left for scientists to document.

The brightly colored animals came to scientific attention only because they were living as pets in small riverbank settlements — suggesting that the number of undiscovered species in the Amazon basin is even greater than scientists suspect.

A thoroughly honest politician has pretty much always been considered an undiscovered species.

you're taking the bible literally, which means you believe moses was 500 years old and built a ship that would have to be over 20 miles in size and was able to capture all the animals even on the undiscovered continents and even the undiscovered species which are about 90 %

Zoologists have recorded about 1,100,000 species on earth excluding fish and they estimate there are at least 1,000,000 undiscovered species.

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This search identified a previously undiscovered gene cluster encoding a new botulinum neurotoxin and accessory proteins in the genome of a species of Enterococcus bacteria isolated from cow faeces.

Plant Hunters Elisabeth Pain, 30 March With many species still undiscovered, plant collecting can offer exciting opportunities for adventurous scientists — at some cost in comfort and job security.

So far, scientists have named some 210,000 marine species, but up to 10 times more may remain undiscovered — including perhaps a million kinds of nematodes, microworms found around the world.

The Himalayas are one of the global «hotspots» of biodiversity; thousands of species are believed to be as yet undiscovered or not yet scientifically described.

Of the approximately 9 million species of insects on Earth — the vast majority undiscovered and unnamed — only about 11/2 percent do us any harm.

For more than a decade, researchers have been scratching their heads at strange results from genetic studies of late ice age bison bones and teeth that have hinted at an undiscovered extinct species.

In 2009, Michael Woodley, then of Royal Holloway, University of London and colleagues estimated that up to 15 species of pinnipeds, the animal group that includes seals and walruses, might remain undiscovered (Historical Biology, vol 20, p 225).

The number of species yet undiscovered, including microbes, could run anywhere from a million to hundreds of millions.

Still, the large and dynamic range of CRISPR systems between and within prokaryotic species suggest the presence of a variety of undiscovered viral anti-CRISPR genes.

With so much still to be explored, you can witness new dive sites and undiscovered marine species.

More on Species and Habitats Under Threat Mexican Walking Fish Nearing Extinction Most Obnoxious Bird in the World has Nearly Vanished Thousands of Undiscovered Plants Face Extinction

Despite the fact that these new species were previously unknown to science, experts say that they and countless others still undiscovered may already be under threat.