Sentences with phrase «what ancient animals»

We've just scratched the surface in terms of learning what these ancient animals can teach us, as well as possibly provide us in terms of direct biomedical benefits.»

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What was at stake here was even more than a humanitarian principle, because the animals were also mentioned (surely a concern not common to other peoples in the ancient Near East; cf. Deut.

What we have here is a «ladder of being» not uncommon in ancient times: there is God at the top, with human beings below God but above all other animals, and there are also beings above humans.

So what were ancient people looking for when striking up friendships with the feathered animals — or any other creatures?

In order to determine what the root of their family tree looked like, biologists need reliable dating information for the most ancient animal subgroups — the sponges, cnidarians, comb jellies and placozoans.

«What we found is that we go from soft - bodied ancient aquatic arthropods with no eyes, or at least eyes that don't fossilize well, to suddenly eyes that look like the eyes that we see on insects and land animals today, with basically nothing in between these stages,» says Morehouse.

Although researchers can only speculate on what prehistoric artists were trying to express, hypotheses range from shamanistic and ritualistic activities to attempts to capture the spirit of horses and other animals that ancient humans hunted.

What remain in certain animal reservoirs are ancient strains, or biovars, which seem to correspond to each of the three pandemics.

For Lucy and her ancient hominid comrades, raw meat sliced off animal carcasses was what's for dinner.

But most ancient skeletons are highly fragmented, so it's difficult to figure out what kind of animal they were from, and what they were used for.

In an ancient Indian parable, a group of blind men touches different parts of a large animal to find what it is.

These oil shales formed at the bottom of ancient Lake Messel and preserve the remains of mammals, birds, and other animals that were living near what is now Darmstadt, Germany about 47 million years ago (the Eocene epoch).

Rajesh Kana and Lauren LiberoIn an ancient Indian parable, a group of blind men touches different parts of a large animal to find what it is.

MEACHEM: We would really love to discover some more mammal fossils down there and what we're really hoping to get out of these mammal fossils is some good ancient DNA, that will tell us about the conditions that these animals lived in and how DNA or genes changed with climate.

Sharpe said that further studies are needed to investigate what roles did animals, like dogs, play in the evolution of the Mayan civilization or the ancient Mesoamerica in general.

The age of the surrounding rock is what indicates just how ancient these animals were, but while the team is quick to call their find the «oldest mammals related to mankind,» the title is up for contention.

Ancient wisdom says to «eat what ails you,» and in the case of gelatin and collagen, it holds true: eating gelatin derived from the skin and bones of animals can help your own skin, bone, and joint health.

As John Durant, a founder of Paleo NYC and Barefoot Runners NYC, put it in his 2013 book, «The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health,» «other animals don't «exercise» so much as they either play or just do what is required to survive.

After all, members of ancient Egyptian royalty were often interred with their animal companions; though if I remember what I learned in my high school history class correctly, the Egyptians did not exactly wait for the pets to pass on naturally before giving them the mummy treatment and stashing them in a pharaoh's tomb.

My Time at Portia features gameplay elements inspired by the likes of Harvest Moon, Stardew Valley, and the Animal Crossing series mixed with Dark Cloud 2 and Steambot Chronicles, while creating its own unique world set in the lush backdrop of what remains of an ancient civilization.

While we already live in the realms of what used to be science fiction, we seem to have simultaneously gone back to our ancestral past — a time when ancient civilisations believed spirits inhabited plants, animals, geographic features and even objects.

And leafing through an ancient Chinese medical textbook he showed there to be over 500 different herbs in addition to animal remedies and stressed there are «botanical TCM substitutes for rhino horn, and... that's what people should concentrate on.»