Sentences with word «zoologist»

The offshore bird's secret, revealed for the first time in May by zoologists at Iowa State University, is in the storm petrel's telomeres, repetitive bits of DNA that sit on the ends of the chromosomes in each cell like protective caps.

The team of zoologists lead by Prof. Dieter Ebert has been studying the evolution of microsporidia for years.

These kinds of relationships have been drawn over the years by zoologists who painstakingly constructed evolutionary trees...

But as zoologist Bill Schutt chronicles in Cannibalism, plenty of creatures inhabit their own version of a dog - eat - dog world.

Look and see whether the youngsters are playing, say zoologists in Britain.

The new material is much more efficient than current mist - catching nets, in which most of the water passes through uncollected, says Andrew Parker, the Oxford University zoologist who originally described the beetle's unique surface.

A study by zoologists from Switzerland and the US shows: praying mantises all over the globe also include birds in their diet.

Teeming with native wildlife, Kakadu makes a supreme location for zoologists, home to a myriad of mammals and birdlife, and over 120 reptile species including both saltwater and freshwater crocodiles and mighty goannas.

«The behavior of stray dogs is like theater,» says Alexei Vereshchagin, one of several zoologists studying Moscow's strays.

Emily works with zoologists and botanists to elucidate the craft and knowledge - based disciplines of art and science at this moment when both are being distorted and devalued.

David Martin, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Honorary Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Lancaster, frames the book as a response to the statement of British zoologist Richard Dawkins that «religion causes wars by generating certainty.»

When their country is invaded by the Nazis, Jan and Antonina are stunned — and forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck (Daniel

The (BLS) states that there are 20,100 zoologists working in the United States.

In the mid-1800s, a French zoologist named Paul Bert first experimented with the creation of parabionts: the surgical joining of two animals, usually two rodents of the same species, in order to study the effect of one's blood on the other.

Cockscomb was the idea of Alan Rabinowitz, an American zoologist who spent years by himself deep in the Belizean jungles, charting the behavior of the jaguar for the New York Zoological Society.

In a study published in May, Duke University zoologist Thomas Struhsaker and his colleagues concluded that since 1975, packs of hungry chimpanzees have killed nearly 90 percent of the red colobus monkeys in a portion of the forested Ngogo region of Kibale National Park in Uganda.

«The late British zoologist Martin Wells said the octopus is an alien.

Spencer becomes tough guy Dr Bravestone (Johnson), Fridge becomes zoologist Moone (Hart), Martha the kickass ninja Ruby Roundhouse (Gillan) and in awesome body swap style, Bethany becomes Dr Shelly Oberon a cartographer played by the never better Jack Black.

«Primarily, all cats hunt both birds and rodents with equal zeal,» observed German zoologist Paul Leyhausen, «and many obviously prefer eating birds.»

Evolutionary biologists disagree about what triggered this prodigious wave of novelty, but a particularly compelling hypothesis, advanced by University of Oxford zoologist Andrew Parker, is that light was the trigger.

For example, the British zoologist Richard Dawkins has written that: «Gullibility of the kind exploited by astrologers, evangelists, and other charlatans may be normal and healthy in a child, but it is unhealthy and reprehensive in an adult» (Skeptical Enquirer, vol 19, no 1, p35).

This finding puts a new slant on a debate that has raged among zoologists for years.

Looking at oyster tissue under a microscope, a team led by zoologist Andrew Mount of Clemson University in South Carolina recently came across another source.

Noted zoologist Desmond Morris called this behavior «milk treading.»

The August «From Shore to Sea» lectures featured Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoologists Paul Collins and Michelle Berman and their investigations of several blue whale deaths caused by ship strikes that occurred off the Channel Islands in the fall of 2007.

In a paper published this week in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Brooks and his co-author, Eric Hoberg, a research zoologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, explored how their research upended the conventional wisdom around parasites and how a changing climate would factor into disease transmission.

Think you would make a good zoologist?

One new technique, pioneered by zoologist Bill Amos from the University of Cambridge, even promises to tell you how closely related your parents were using just a small sample of your genetic material.

«This very important paper is the final nail in the coffin for the remaining supporters of the nondinosurian origin of birds,» says Kasper Lykke Hansen, a vertebrate zoologist at the University of Copenhagen.

Zoologist Desmond Morris wrote in his Animal watching: A field guide to animal behaviour that «compared to many hoofed animals on the plains of Africa, they are remarkably mobile and noisy and never attempt to hide in cover».

Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton and Eva Green return for the new season, which also sees Shazad Latif star as Dr. Henry Jekyll, Simon Russell Beale as Ferdinand Lyle, Christian Camargo as zoologist Dr. Alexander Sweet, Sam Barnet, Jessica Barden, and Perdita Weeks.

Last month the French zoologist known as the father of cryptozoology, 83 - year - old Bernard Heuvelmans, donated his collection of more than 50,000 documents, photos, and specimens to the Museum of Zoology in Lausanne, Switzerland.

«It's a neat study,» says zoologist David Bilton, who studies aquatic invertebrates at the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom.

«This bear swam continuously for 232 hours and 687 km and through waters that were 2 - 6 degrees C,» says research zoologist George M. Durner.

Charles Marshall, an evolutionary zoologist at Harvard University, says the bigger question is why the asexual species held on to their sex genes once they became inactive.

Biography: Tim McClanahan is a Senior Conservation Zoologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, where he has worked for the past 15 years.

«It was probably the first vertebrate that was able to fragment its prey before swallowing,» says zoologist Mark Westneat of the Field Museum in Chicago.

Skinny nerd Spencer (Alex Wolff) becomes thunderously muscly Dr Smolder Bravestone (Dwayne Johnson), Jock «Fridge» (Ser «Darius Blain) becomes diminutive zoologist Moose Finbar (Kevin Hart), terribly serious Martha (Morgan Turner) becomes ass - kicking sex pot Ruby (Karen Gillan) and gorgeous airhead Bethany (Madison Iseman) becomes Jack Black.

Dwayne Johnson's new movie Rampage is now casting young zoologist types in Atlanta, Georgia.

Zoologists often study entire ecosystems, observing the interactions among multiple species and the effects that each has on the other.

However, veteran zoologist Susan Crockford dismissed the findings, writing on her blog that she had been left «speechless» by the «skewed data» used in the study.

This iconic animal has become climate change's canary in the coal mine, but climate denier blogs love to claim the animals» numbers are booming, largely based on the claims of one Canadian zoologist blogger.

Researchers have wondered how dolphins manage to swim so fast at least since the 1930s, when British zoologist James Gray marveled at reports of one dolphin's apparent speed as it outraced a boat.

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Nelson, a senior zoologist at the American Museum of Natural History, wrote that statement in the preface to a recent book by Wendell Bird, the leading attorney for the creationist organizations.

«If we could shrink ourselves to the atomic scale,» writes zoologist Richard Dawkins in The Blind Watchmaker, «we would see almost endless rows of atoms stretching to the horizon in straight lines» galleries of geometric repetition.»

Still, without the long - term data collected by Wikelski and colleagues, researchers might not have even detected the die - off, says zoologist Robert Paine of the University of Washington.