Sentences with phrase «up old fossil»

When they're vanity projects built on such hoary devices as talking to off - stage characters or writing letters and reading them aloud, they can make theater feel like a dried - up old fossil.

What a lying, conniving shriveled up old fossil.

These two new watches from Fossil essentially dress up the older Fossil Q Founder design, although the Fossil Q Marshall on the right does mix things up a little bit.

Not exact matches

My 11 - year - old self would never have believed that 50 years later our governments would be continuing to prop up the extraction and export of fossil fuels, rather than leaping to embrace the green future that awaited us.

Techniques like radio carbon dating and soil analysis let you determine how old the fossils you dig up are.

I agree with you on one point, I don't know how someone so intelligent, companionate and reasonable can stomach to be associated with such fossils as you or the decrepit old windbags that make up the RCC leaders

«Shaking up the fish family tree: «Living fossil» not as old as we thought.»

The techniques can be used to determine color from well - preserved animal fossils that are up to 300 million years old, researchers said.

Until then, the oldest known fossils of complex organisms were 600 million years old (Vendobionta from Ediacara in Australia) and it was commonly accepted that, before that period, life on our planet was exclusively made up of unicellular organisms (bacteria, unicellular algae, etc.).

Thousands of hominid fossils up to 800,000 years old had been previously found there, including some bearing cut marks indicative of cannibalism.

Previous claims of fossil DNA finds have not been verified; the oldest DNA yet recovered comes from Neanderthals up to about 50,000 years old (see Neanderthals have genome chunk sequenced).

The team also found DNA from a form of marine alga in 9300 - year - old sediments, though the alga doesn't show up in the fossil record until 2500 years ago, says molecular paleoecologist Marco Coolen of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and an author of the Black Sea paper.

«As many plants as there are, it's not enough,» Kelly adds, noting that older, fossil fuel — fired plants would have to be shut down in order for renewables to make up the required percentage.

If this date — the first proof that a fossil can be directly dated from its genome — holds up, it is considerably older than the very rough dates of 30,000 to more than 50,000 years for the layer of sediment where the fossils of Denisovans, Neandertals, and modern humans all were found.

If the technique proves successful (such as with the passenger pigeon), it might be applied to the many other extinct species that have left their ancient DNA in museum specimens and fossils up to 500,000 years old.

And these old myths will pop up as long as the fossil fuel industry will exist.

Old fossil fuel - based plants are being shut down while alternative technologies such as rooftop solar are increasingly being taken up, leading to further rifts in the wider energy sector.

The older generation is now burning the fossil fuels, getting the benefits, and wittingly leaving a mess for young people to try to clean up.

At the latest ECS estimates of around 1.5 °C, this could lead to 2 °C warming; at the old IPCC estimate of around 3 °C, this could lead to 4 °C warming — both as an asymptotic maximum ever attainable if and when all fossil fuels are 100 % used up some 200 - 300 years from now.

He also pointed out that the research itself is pretty old now, and so even if the fossil fuel parts could be identified from the rest of the «perverse subsidies» — it wouldn't be very up to date.

The point here is not that Gelbspan appears to have put out misinformation about his collective work back in 2004, it is that his words have huge influence right up to the present time, such as the only months - old «fossil fuel industry misinformation» research paper written by an impressionable young college student, or the days - old suggestion by one of his Facebook Friends that he should get a guest appearance on CNBC's Rachel Maddow show.

He responded by picking up some fossil creature off his desk and said words to the effect of «this fossil was created 5000 years ago as a 20 million year old fossil.

Some of it was clearly preserved from living things on the ice itself, some of was scraped up as the glaciers moved over old soils, and some of it was soot from fossil fuel combustion or distant forest fires.

I have a horrible suspicion that what actually has happened, as occasionally does at Christmas, is that they have wrapped up an old unwanted, discarded present from a few years back to try to offload it - in this case the old Non Fossil Fuel Obligation.

Look up «Overshoot» and «primary productivity» — the extra energy now is coming from old sunlight (fossil carbon), with problems.

And the head of the IPCC has been «fossil fuel funded» forever - here's a half - decade old write up about it.

With that in mind, they are looking to come up with a separate design that would blend in better with older buildings, but they also hope that more people will change their minds and realize that buildings and design can evolve, especially in order to replace fossil fuels with solar power.

It's part of Fossil's third generation line - up, which means the body is slimmer than ever, so the profile is closer to a regular watch, and less intrusive than older smartwatches.

Most current Android Wear smartwatches such as the LG Watch Urbane, ASUS ZenWatch 2, Moto 360 2nd gen, Fossil Q Founder, Tag Heuer Connected, and Moto 360 Sport are all but confirmed to get the update, with slightly older watches such as the LG G Watch R, Moto 360, and others likely to pick it up, but not 100 % confirmed.