Sentences with phrase «years as a hunter»

The Beagle is counted as a member of the Hound group by the AKC, and has been used throughout the years as a hunter of rabbits and other small game.

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The partnership got its start four years ago, when Ian MacLachlan, head of research at Protiva Corp., which later merged with Tekmira, cold - called USAMRIID's Tom Geisbert, who had become famous as a «virus hunter» in Richard Preston's bestseller The Hot Zone.

Nicknamed «the planet hunter,» the $ 337 million TESS is a follow - up to NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which spent the last eight years searching the skies for as many planets outside our solar system as possible.

If, for example, a hunter - gatherer only ever allows the fastest male dogs to breed with the fastest female dogs, after many years of such selective breeding the resultant dogs would differ so much in body shape, leg length and, perhaps, lung capacity from their ancestor as to be considered a separate breed.

A century ago the herd probably numbered as many as 25,000, but the hunters who closed in on it each year during the winter rendezvous in Magdalena Bay reduced it to 100 or so by the start of World War II.

Thanks to scientific management and the courage of those enlightened hunters who, for the sake of improving the herds, could last year bring themselves to shoot does, where legal, as well as bucks, the nation's No. 1 big - game animal, the deer, this year is coursing its nationwide range in healthier and bigger numbers than ever before.

And a record - breaking number of hunters — most of whom haven't had a gun in their hands since last year — are out after them as seasons open across the nation.

That training had its rewards at Santa Barbara, as horses from the Williams string collected a most impressive array of tricolors, including the green working hunter championship and reserve, the second - year green conformation hunter championship, the working hunter championship and the conformation hunter AHSA championship.

In proper season, somewhere in the grass or rubble, the visitor may come upon Harold (Sonny) Henderson, a genial 46 - year - old Scots - English - Polynesian whose eminence as a hunter is well established but is — as is the case with many active Hawaiians — rather obscured by peculiar distinctions in several sports.

And showing that the hunters have become the hunted as the Ibori case has turned against the Police, the BBC report added: «Last year, after repeatedly telling judges there was no evidence of police corruption, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) admitted they had found substantial material that supported the allegations.

For example, about 15,000 years ago, we came out of the last Ice Age as amazingly skilled hunters; we had to be to survive its rigors.

The library is set to break ground this year on new branches in Far Rockaway, East Elmhurst, Glen Oaks and Hunters Point, as well as an expansion to the Kew Gardens Hills branch in honor of late activist Pat Dolan.

Four years ago, Cordain reviewed the macronutrient content (protein, carbohydrates, fat) in the diets of 229 hunter - gatherer groups listed in a series of journal articles collectively known as the Ethnographic Atlas.

Coss» paper grew out of a 2015 study in which he and a former graduate student reported that zebras living near human settlements could not be approached as closely before fleeing as wild horses when they saw a human approaching on foot — staying just outside the effective range of poisoned arrows used by African hunters for at least 24,000 years.

These examples are crucial, Fry says, because our ancestors are thought to have lived as nomadic hunter - gatherers from the emergence of the Homo lineage just over 2 million years ago in Africa until the appearance of agriculture and permanent settlements about 12,000 years ago.

That's almost as many as the estimated 20 million mourning doves legally shot and killed each year by hunters.

They found that most of the DNA in living Europeans originated in three major migrations, starting with hunter - gatherers who came from the Middle East as the glaciers retreated 19,000 to 14,000 years ago.

The fossil hunters unearthed about 55 percent of the 65 - million - year - old skeleton — encased in a mixture of mud and sand known in paleontological jargon as the matrix — and sold it to the British businessman Graham Lacey, reportedly for $ 5 million to $ 8 million.

After 35 years of eavesdropping on the stars, hoping to hear the intelligent murmurings of an extraterrestrial civilization, the SETI Institute's lead alien hunter is hanging up her receiver and retiring as director of the Center for SETI Research.

The farmers» DNA was compared with DNA from three Neolithic hunter - gatherers found in Hungary, Luxembourg and Spain; a fourth hunter - gatherer from Italy dating to about 14,000 years ago; and 25 Anatolian farmers from as early as 8,500 years ago.

In addition to his work in the United States, McBride had traveled for years throughout Mexico as a contracted wolf hunter.

In the past few years, consumers have grown used to the sight of handheld GPS receivers, which have been marketed as individual positioning devices for anglers, hunters, hikers, and cyclists — tools, in other words, for establishing one's individual bodily location.

One beautiful case of parallel evolution is the double domestication of rice in Africa as well as Asia, which was followed by its double «de-domestication,» or reversion to a wild form, all within the roughly 10,000 years since hunter - gatherers became settled farmers.

«As a result, there were persistent boundaries between the farmers and the hunter - gatherers for a couple of thousand years.»

According to Geoff Marcy, an exoplanet hunter at U.C. Berkeley, who has performed optical SETI work at Lick and other telescopes, the APF will be capable of detecting laser transmissions as low in power as 100 watts from up to 50 light - years away.

A 9000 - year - old decapitated head discovered in South America is twice as old as previous finds, and suggests veneration of the dead by early hunter - gatherers

In the same year, she was part of an international team that published the first South American hunter - gatherer gut microbiome and identified Treponema as a key missing ancestral microbe in industrialized societies.

People living in a South African cave 44,000 years ago crafted the same kinds of blades, beads and tools as hunter - gatherers of the region today.

This process has become particularly rapid in last 20,000 years and more recently, as we switched from being hunter gatherers to agriculturalists — a lifestyle that meant less variety in both diet and physical effort.

Sammy Lokorodi, a resident of Kenya's northwestern desert who works as a fossil and artifact hunter, led the way to a trove of 3.3 million - year - old tools.

There are tantalizing hints of feasting among Paleolithic hunter - gatherers perhaps as early as 20,000 years ago, but the practice became common only during the Neolithic (early farming) period beginning about 10,000 years ago.

In recent years, planet hunters have been able to measure extremely precise velocities as they hunt for the tiny shifts a small planet, like the one orbiting Proxima, induces in its star, tugging it towards and away from us.

This process has become particularly rapid in last 20,000 years and more recently, as we switched from being hunter gatherers to agriculturalists - a lifestyle that meant less variety in both diet and physical effort.

You see, tens of thousands of years ago, before Nike, Cap’n Crunch, and Healthy Choice meals, our ancient ancestors thrived as hunter - gatherers.

Thousands of years ago, this process was a tried - and - true survival method, as much work went into finding fatty foods during the hunter - gatherer days.

Our diets are not as rich in minerals as they would have been 10,000 years ago — back before agriculture, when people lived as hunter - gatherers — we need to find new sources of trace minerals.

Before the advent of agriculture around 10,000 years ago humans got their food from hunting, fishing and gathering and as much as 58 % of our hunter - gatherer ancestors» dietary calories came from fat!

The mass production of grains through agriculture is only a few thousand years old... Compare that to our ancestors historical existence as hunter - gatherers as far back as a couple of million years, and our current species (homo sapiens) 200,000 - year history as hunter - gatherers.

During the ensuing Holocene (10000 y ago until the present), cereal grains were rarely consumed as year round staples by most worldwide hunter - gatherers (32,33), except by certain groups living in arid and marginal environments (32,34).

eHarmony hopes its many years of matching experience will be equally as successful matching job hunters with positions as it has been matching singles.

Last year, the actor played supporting Vampire hunter Henry Sturges in the genre - bending novel adaptation Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - one of the bright spots in a film that fell short of finding the same success as its source material.

Check out the new trailer for David M. Rosenthal's «A Single Shot,» which premiered in Berlin earlier this year and stars Sam Rockwell as a Southern hunter who finds himself at the center of a terrible and then deadly accident.

As 16 - year - old Katniss Everdeen, the renegade hunter who kills with a bow and arrow and stands up to take the place of her younger sister in the deadly Games, Lawrence reveals a physical and emotional grace that's astonishing.

Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), a skilled hunter who lives in the dirt - poor District 12, volunteers for the Games after her frail 12 - year - old sister Prim (Willow Shields) is chosen as a tribute.

As usual, this Game of the Year edition includes the main game plus all the DLCs announced for it, in the case of Bloodborne it will include the DLC «Bloodborne: The Old Hunters `, announced at Sony's Tokyo Game Show conference in September, that will be available worldwide on November 24th as a standalone DLAs usual, this Game of the Year edition includes the main game plus all the DLCs announced for it, in the case of Bloodborne it will include the DLC «Bloodborne: The Old Hunters `, announced at Sony's Tokyo Game Show conference in September, that will be available worldwide on November 24th as a standalone DLas a standalone DLC.

A new report contends the 52 - year - old actor is set to don the shades and leather trench coat for a fourth time as Marvel's vampire hunter.

you should see this game as w.o.w. more people will buy and it will go on for years it's not dependent of a holiday season and they pay a monthly fee to play to say it's nothing makes me wonder if you know DQ cause it's the same as saying monster hunter is nothing you may not know it but it has a huge fanbase

Kelly Overton (True Blood) has been cast as Vanessa Helsing, the daughter of the legendary vampire hunter in Syfy's 13 - episode TV series, which premieres later this year.

Slow West (2015), which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2015, stars Kodi Smit - McPhee as 16 - year - old Jay Cavendish, the son of Scottish aristocrats on a romantic (and foolhardy) journey to find the girl he loves on the 19th century American frontier, and Michael Fassbender as bounty hunter Silas who volunteers to be the boy's guide and bodyguard... for a price, of course.

FRIGHT NIGHT is easily one of the best supernatural action films of the past ten years, and it also makes you wonder why Tennant isn't in more Hollywood films after his scene - stealing turn as vampire hunter Vincent.