Sentences with phrase «zoologist named»

In 1915, a group of Hovawart enthusiasts led by a zoologist named Kurt Friedrich König started a concentrated effort to resurrect the breed.

While Kukalova - Peck was rethinking flight evolution, a zoologist named Charles Ellington was starting to rethink the biomechanics of insect flight.

Ardent defenders of the Bible refused to accept these conclusions, and one of them, a zoologist named P. H. Gosse (1810 - 1888) admitted all the evidence of geology but claimed that at the creation God had deliberately placed the fossils in the rock so that men would later find them there.

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Late last year, Peter Funch and Reinhardt Kristensen, zoologists at the University of Copenhagen, announced that they'd found an animal strange enough to merit its own phylum, which they have named Cycliophora.

Venus may be far too hostile an environment for plants and animals but it now boasts a crater named after a distinguished botanist and a zoologist.

A zoologist and psychologist at the University of Texas named David Crews began his work with Cnemidophorus uniparens, a species of lizard in which every individual is female and reproduces asexually, around 1977, when he noticed a pair of them engaged in a courtship ritual.

Cat People (1982) A charmingly schlocky erotic thriller very loosely based on Jacques Tourneur and Val Lewton's 1942 horror film by the same name, Cat People follows the explosive sexual awakening of Irena Gallier (Nastassja Kinski) who, upon arriving in New Orleans, slowly learns that her desires transform her into a black leopard, placing her and her new zoologist lover (John Heard) in jeopardy.

It's kind of like Amazon subbing out the Kindle store to a company — let's call them Monkey Brain Books — that sells Kindles to inner city zoologists and decides to put their brand name on the existing Kindle ebook store that's been around for years, and redo the apps to say Monkey Brain Books.

The southern elephant seal was one of the many species originally described by Swedish zoologist Carl Linnaeus in the landmark 1758 10th edition of his Systema Naturae, where it was given the binomial name of Phoca leonina.

John Edward Gray placed it in its own genus in 1865, naming it in honour of physician and zoologist Daniel Frederik Eschricht.

John Gray gave the Gray Whale the scientific name of Eschrichtius robustus after zoologist Daniel Eschricht.

Tim Flannery, byname of Timothy Fridtjof Flannery, (born January 28, 1956, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), Australian zoologist and outspoken environmentalist who was named Australian of the Year 2007 in recognition of his role as an effective communicator in explaining environmental issues and in bringing them to the attention of the Australian public.

Rachel Carson, a quiet zoologist and great writer, was named one of our country's brightest minds.