• Life began in the ocean, and the ocean still plays a vital role in our lives and the earth's ecosystem. (mit.edu)
  • Sure, Mars may have had oceans billions of years ago, but Europa has them right now-and they are more than twice as large as all of Earth's oceans combined. (popsci.com)
  • While it's true that these benefits still aren't fairly or evenly distributed, an unprecedentedly large fraction of Earth's inhabitants have grown up without any first-hand experience of plague or mass starvation. (sentientdevelopments.com)
  • During the second half of the 19th century, a personal courtesy in formal attire was required from the curator to borrow the key to the collection. (lu.se)
  • The zoological collection has extensive collections of this group of animals, collected during expeditions or research projects since the first half of the 19th century and until today. (lu.se)
  • St. Mary's, which closed in 1961 and was demolished less than 10 years later, was commonly referred to as a mother and baby home, one of several set up across Ireland in the first half of the 20th century. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • This may be attributed to the fact that soil retains the cumulative signals of uranium atmospheric deposition, including the deposition of 235U-enriched airborne particulate matter deposited after atmospheric nuclear tests carried out in the second half of the 20th century. (bvsalud.org)
  • A selection of enemies from Half-Life populate the game, including alien creatures such as headcrabs and Vortigaunts. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Half-Life video game made its debut in 1998, introducing us to the physicist hero, Gordon Freeman, and a host of deadly, unearthly enemies. (instructables.com)
  • That's one of the key contributors to the Fermi Paradox, the idea that if alien life, especially intelligent life, was everywhere, we should have found it by now since there would be so many potential species to discover. (worldofweirdthings.com)
  • But not only is intelligent life a very broad term and it could be argued that there are many intelligent species on our planet, and that intelligence itself as a biological construct is a spectrum, it's unlikely that the kind of intelligence able to, and interested in, talking to us is all that common. (worldofweirdthings.com)
  • Perhaps, a billion years ago, there was an intelligent and curious species that built vast cities and looked up at the sky wondering if anyone like them was out there, maybe even looking towards the Sun to see Earth in a muted beige, gray, and green palette, covered with volcanoes and oceans filled with iron, concealing simple life that would evolve into the first simple animals half a billion years later. (worldofweirdthings.com)
  • This general rule may be readily disregarded for larger species. (koiusa.com)
  • These species do not need large tanks to thrive. (koiusa.com)
  • However, the species is not only useful for researchers as a time reference, as it also gives them valuable insights into ancient life on Earth. (eurekalert.org)
  • The largest specimens of this species reach a length of 13 meters and weigh about 275 kg. (richgiraffe.com)
  • The species Architeuthis dux, the Atlantic giant squid, could well be the terrible Kraken that ruined so many lives. (richgiraffe.com)
  • The researchers are using light loggers to study swifts, a species that essentially lives its entire life in the air, apart from when it has young to care for. (lu.se)
  • Empowered Consumers in the Era of Me If social media is any indication, we, like Narcissus of ancient myth, are surely self-obsessed creatures. (cdc.gov)
  • Half-Life: Opposing Force is an expansion pack for the first-person shooter game Half-Life. (wikipedia.org)
  • Opposing Force was the first expansion for Half-Life and was announced in April 1999. (wikipedia.org)
  • Lead designer Randy Pitchford noted that he believed Gearbox was selected to develop Opposing Force because Valve, the creators of Half-Life, wanted to concentrate on their future projects. (wikipedia.org)
  • Opposing Force portrays the events of Half-Life from the perspective of a U.S. Marine, one of the enemy characters in the original. (wikipedia.org)
  • Opposing Force was received well by critics, with many describing it as the new benchmark title for expansion packs, in a similar fashion to how Half-Life revolutionized the first-person shooter genre. (wikipedia.org)
  • As an expansion pack for Half-Life, Opposing Force is a first-person shooter. (wikipedia.org)
  • The overall gameplay of Opposing Force does not significantly differ from that of Half-Life. (wikipedia.org)
  • Opposing Force also features an extended multiplayer, incorporating the various new environments and weapons into the original deathmatch mode used in Half-Life. (wikipedia.org)
  • Opposing Force is set in the same location and timeframe as that of Half-Life, taking place at a remote New Mexico laboratory called the Black Mesa Research Facility. (wikipedia.org)
  • Opposing Force, however, shows the events of Half-Life from the perspective of a different protagonist. (wikipedia.org)
  • A celebration of oceans, with brilliant colour photos of rare fish and creatures in their natural habitats, plus text written by someone who can actually make the word 'ecosystem' seem interesting. (mit.edu)
  • Especially following the disappointment of the Europan oceans being barren of life, this apparent discovery of a natural biosphere caused great excitement. (orionsarm.com)
  • More than 550 million years ago, the oceans were teeming with flat, soft-bodied creatures that fed on microbes and algae and could grow as big as bathmats. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The largest feline in Africa is above all a powerful and formidable predator whose ambush and hunting techniques leave its prey little chance. (myanimalpet.com)
  • Prockter has already made that investment herself, having spent half her career studying Europa's unique, frosty terrain. (popsci.com)
  • Today, researchers are studying their fossils to unlock the secrets of early life. (sciencedaily.com)
  • U-235 is the ideal isotope for radioactive dating because of its lengthy half-life, especially for older fossils and rocks. (caribbeancricket.com)
  • A limited selection of Half-Life's weaponry is allocated to the player to defend themselves with, although several new weapons such as a sniper rifle, combat knife and a variety of alien weaponry are also present. (wikipedia.org)
  • In Half-Life, the player takes on the role of Gordon Freeman, a scientist involved in an accident that opens an inter-dimensional portal to the borderworld of Xen, allowing the alien creatures of Xen to attack the facility. (wikipedia.org)
  • If there was a thriving alien civilization on one of the best candidates for life in our stellar neighborhood, we missed them by well over a billion years. (worldofweirdthings.com)
  • The search for alien life has recently taken a surprise twist away from Mars and toward Europa, an ice ball of a moon in orbit around Jupiter. (popsci.com)
  • The conventional thinking, then, is that if you want to find alien life, the first thing you look for is alien water. (popsci.com)
  • The latest Netflix miniseries, "Alien Worlds," narrated by Sophie Okonedo ("Ratched"), is documentary-meets-science-fiction, capturing a detailed exposĂ© of alternative life on other planets that may or may not exist. (michigandaily.com)
  • Within four episodes, the miniseries manages to introduce us to alien-like creatures and plant life on exoplanets Atlas, Janus, Eden and Terra, comparing the detailed evolution of life to that here on Earth. (michigandaily.com)
  • Alien life on unknown planets has been a hot topic for decades. (michigandaily.com)
  • The alien science-fiction genre only tends to focus on our interest in extraterrestrial life, other than the planets that may produce them. (michigandaily.com)
  • This is Africa - Learn about the planet's 2nd largest continent. (tickettailor.com)
  • Kepler-452b is a world roughly five times as big as ours, with twice the gravity, a very similar home star to our own, an its atmosphere indicates that photosynthetic life forms appeared on this planet, they would easily thrive. (worldofweirdthings.com)
  • Alligators are large, semi-aquatic carnivorous reptiles with four small legs and veritably long tails. (myanimalpet.com)
  • These creatures are cold- thoroughbred( ectotherms) and like utmost reptiles, they don't produce their body heat. (myanimalpet.com)
  • Giant squids remain some of the most mysterious real mythical creatures on our planet. (richgiraffe.com)
  • Stunning color photographs and engaging, informative text capture the astonishing diversity of marine life, from the tiniest plants and plankton to the awe-inspiring Giant Squid and the blue whale, the largest animal ever to have lived. (mit.edu)
  • On shore, from time to time, throws really monstrous real mythical creatures: in 1639, a squid 37 meters long was thrown onto the sand of English Dover. (richgiraffe.com)
  • So far, the largest squid sighted has come across a military trawler off the Maldives. (richgiraffe.com)
  • Established in 1962, the MIT Press is one of the largest and most distinguished university presses in the world and a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, art, social science, and design. (mit.edu)
  • Have they made their regulations hold up to the world a large amount of piety, and a great desire that those in their employ shall be religious-so much so that they have made a corporation law, that "no one shall be retained in their employ who is not a constant attendant on public worship. (libcom.org)
  • Were Kepler-452b anything like Earth and followed a similar evolutionary history, our civilizations missed each other by 1.5 billion years, more than the timeline of complex, multicellular, animal life on our world three times over. (worldofweirdthings.com)
  • He imagined it as a world inhabited by primitive aquatic creatures and guarded by the monoliths from 2001: A Space Odyssey . (popsci.com)
  • Please if anyone can, decipher for me if you will, using the whale?s own perspectives, its knowledge of its chosen (a mammal that went from the land to the seas by choice in some bygone era) milieu, what it knows about the world and its creatures. (philosophytalk.org)
  • What's compelling about the drawing is that not only is it of a half-man, half-animal creature, but it shows the close connection that early man had with the natural world. (loridevoti.com)
  • Unlike today, where most of us live in urban areas and our only interaction with animals is with our pets, or with the animals we see in circuses or zoos, ancient cultures were much more involved with the natural world and the creatures that lived within it. (loridevoti.com)
  • The museum owes its existence to one man, Loren Coleman, who has spent a half-century traveling the world collecting "cryptozoological samples. (thrillist.com)
  • A different world with creatures and inhabitants that may act the same, only with different features. (michigandaily.com)
  • Amid all these tribulations man in his miserable mortality languishes, but half-alive in life, he weakly draws his anxious and languid breath, as if he had a sword perpetually hanging over his neck. (jashow.org)
  • There are recent accounts of large cat sightings in the south that have an unusual twist. (phantomsandmonsters.com)
  • Cameras will always be pointed at beautiful and unusual creatures, but how much deeper can the lenses penetrate? (all-about-photo.com)
  • Darwin also proved to have a rich fossil record, showing that the planet had once held much larger organisms which were now extinct. (orionsarm.com)
  • The extinct animal was just one centimetre in size when adult, but has been found exceptionally well-preserved and in large numbers. (eurekalert.org)
  • For a nice little day trip out of nappy valley, why not head down to beautiful RHS Wisley gardens where you can take part in their brilliant half term programme of activities including craft workshops, storytelling and planting workshops! (little-starlings.com)
  • We walk along one of the corridors on the second floor of Ekologihuset, where the two technicians Johan Bäckman and Arne Andersson have their offices alongside a large group of researchers in the CAnMove programme. (lu.se)
  • Added to that, they're beautiful creatures that capture the imagination and speak to us about the impossible each time they take flight. (mongabay.com)
  • Over the past few years, there has been an increased number of large cat sightings recorded throughout the eastern United States. (phantomsandmonsters.com)
  • We probably won't know anytime in the foreseeable future whether anything evolved on this planet, much less whether that something in intelligent, not only due to the basic limitations of SETI techniques , but because the planet is some 1,400 light years away, making it extremely difficult to image, even with the largest and most powerful planned telescopes. (worldofweirdthings.com)
  • And we could only speculate about what creatures could've evolved on Kepler-452b and what chance they had over hundreds of millions of years to adapt to a warmer and warmer sun. (worldofweirdthings.com)
  • Many of them spent the first six or seven years of their lives together. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • I ask with a grin two and a half years later over a pint, knowing how he'll reply. (discovermagazine.com)
  • This research adds to our knowledge about these animals and our understanding of life on Earth as an artifact of half a billion years of evolution," Droser said. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The trilobite-like arthropod lived in huge numbers in Scandinavia a half-billion years ago. (eurekalert.org)
  • There were actually ecosystems seething with fantastic and bizarre life forms several hundred million years before the dinosaurs even appeared", concludes Mats E. Eriksson. (eurekalert.org)
  • He's a pit/hound mix and 11 and a half years old, and I adopted him at 4 months of age weighing about 34 pounds, and he grew up to a big boy of 67 pounds. (mu.nu)
  • U-235 has a half-life of 704 million years before decaying to Pb-207. (caribbeancricket.com)
  • C-14 isotopes are not detectable in samples older than 50,000 years due to its short half-life, making it impossible to date older samples. (caribbeancricket.com)
  • There are wild animals, snakes, deadly poisonous spiders and many other dangerous creatures that threaten harm to you or your loved ones. (jashow.org)
  • Most descriptions have been similar to those of cougars or panther-like creatures, large muscular felines with long tails. (phantomsandmonsters.com)
  • The nameless creature sent a long green tongue over the skin of its doglike face, revealing needle-sharp teeth. (worldswithoutend.com)
  • The ocean-filled moon might hold the life we've long searched for in space. (popsci.com)
  • I celebrate the silent kiss that ends short life or long. (eliteskills.com)
  • The LEDs will be attached to a large water tank containing millimetre-long water fleas. (lu.se)
  • The 265-million-year-old fossil found in Brazil reveals the largest meat eater of its time, one that prowled the jungles searching for unlucky critters to chomp on. (caribbeancricket.com)
  • How Ahimsa should be practised has been interpreted differently in various religions, cultures, times and contexts, varying from meat-eating over vegetarianism and veganism to fruitarianism and consideration of plant life in everyday life choices [3] . (lu.se)
  • These animals are of interest to paleontologists because they are the first to become large and complex, to move around, and form communities, yet little is known about them. (sciencedaily.com)
  • We wanted to know if these creatures were part of a group of animals that survived or a failed evolutionary experiment. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Gulden's process signals his respect for the animals and their daily life he witnesses. (all-about-photo.com)
  • The sculptures on display range from life-size to heroic and are created by some of this country's leading animal sculptors. (nationalsculpture.org)
  • NSS' All Creatures Great & Small , an exhibition of 32 animal sculptures, was on display at Naples Botanical Garden in early 2015. (nationalsculpture.org)
  • And it is not only the outer hard shells - even the animal's soft tissue has been found so well preserved that it is possible to create extremely detailed sculptures that show what the tiny creature looked like. (eurekalert.org)
  • The game continues Half-Life's methods of an unbroken narrative. (wikipedia.org)
  • The game takes place on a large map, and the viewed area often includes section which overlap and can't be reached directly, due to the huge shrubs and trees which are used as borders. (mobygames.com)
  • This will keep them busy & they can create a game with their creatures when they're finished. (little-starlings.com)
  • But in the ongoing worldwide battle against life-threatening mosquito bites, this vaccine heralds a game-changing development in the fight against malaria. (gfa.org)
  • People have reported being stalked by these creatures in the canyons around Los Angeles and in some states in southeastern U.S. A supporting Native American legend of a woman cursed for spying on a men's council meeting hints at mythic origins of these creatures. (phantomsandmonsters.com)
  • and yet a large class of females are, and have been, destined to a state of servitude as degrading as unceasing toil can make it. (libcom.org)
  • As well, mutilations of horses and livestock in Australia have prompted fear that undocumented large cats also dwell on the continent. (phantomsandmonsters.com)
  • Seeing a giraffe in real life is an exceptional and very memorable experience. (myanimalpet.com)
  • Our previous results indicated that BAG-1 large (BAG-1L) overexpression significantly increases cell viability and decreases apoptosis by upregulating HSP70 and p-AKT in response to hypoxia/reoxygenation in SY-SH5Y cells. (bvsalud.org)
  • Wild Life in Halong: largely includes bats and a wide variety of marine creatures. (halongtravelguide.com)
  • Out of the Blue looks at the drifters, the minute creatures that are the ocean's life source and the first link in the marine food chain. (mit.edu)
  • It shows us fish, marine mammals, and the secret lives of creatures who live in the deepest and darkest part of the ocean. (mit.edu)
  • There were some during this time who speculated that Earth was the only place in the entire universe that was home to life, and that the true purpose of mankind was to seed a barren universe with life. (orionsarm.com)
  • Conversely, every place on Earth where water exists, life does too. (popsci.com)
  • In January, an Earth-sized planet named TOI 700 was discovered containing half the temperature of the sun. (michigandaily.com)
  • Considering the way 2020 has proven how detrimental humanity is to its own kind here on Earth, finding other planets with the possibility of life doesn't seem too bad. (michigandaily.com)
  • In 2020 suicide declined to 11th place as an overall cause of death because of the large number of deaths caused by COVID-19. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Firearms accounted for over half of all suicide deaths. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The incredible degree of preservational detail means that we can grasp the entire anatomy of the animal, which in turn reveals a lot about its ecology and mode of life", says Mats E. Eriksson. (eurekalert.org)
  • In our larger cities the elderly are fearful of leaving their house or apartment for fear of muggers. (jashow.org)
  • CONCLUSION: Cluster nursing can reduce the incidence of delirium and improve the quality of life and mental health of post-surgery elderly ICU patients. (bvsalud.org)
  • A man cannot go about unburdened by many forms of his own destruction, and without drawing out a life enveloped, as it were with death. (jashow.org)
  • Make a paste from white flour and water in a large bowl, mixing it with your hand. (instructables.com)
  • One inch of aquatic creature for every gallon of water in a tank is the standard thumb rule for populating any aquarium. (koiusa.com)
  • Everything we know about life says that it needs water. (popsci.com)
  • Half in and half out of the water. (photo.net)
  • I want to step into this tidal pool just so I can share the water with these amazing forms of life. (photo.net)
  • In the early days of space exploration, star-system after star-system turned out to be devoid of life. (orionsarm.com)
  • Betta is the archetypal "Small Space" creature. (koiusa.com)
  • Plus, you barely have to leave the building for a post-performance meal: The space is just a half-mile from downtown Portsmouth and all its hyped restaurants, such as James Beard semi-finalist Black Trumpet and beloved oyster bar Row 34 . (thrillist.com)
  • For example, astronomer Adam Frank takes viewers to Area 51 and details why aliens have yet to be discovered - simply because we haven't searched enough in the large magnitude that is space. (michigandaily.com)
  • A visually stunning celebration of the rich variety of ocean life, with 180 color photographs. (mit.edu)
  • Out of the Blue is a celebration of the rich variety of ocean life. (mit.edu)
  • By enabling highly accurate dating of historical items and materials using a variety of scientific procedures, chronometric dating has transformed archaeology.Numerous creatures and minerals contain radioactive isotopes including U-235 and C-14. (caribbeancricket.com)
  • The bottom sociated with food but rather with a variety of unsavory and comprises half a wheel with deep yellow color, still young. (cdc.gov)
  • If the sun is our power supply, soil is the giant battery pack powering all life - and it's running out of charge. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • The study helps place Dickinsonia in the early evolution of animal life, and showcases how the large, mobile sea creature grew and developed. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Dickinsonia was a flat, oval-shaped creature that ranged in size from less than an inch to several feet, and is characterized by a series of raised bands -- known as modules -- on its surface. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Montessori educates children to develop using practical life activities rather than formal teaching. (little-starlings.com)
  • Individuals who survive the perils of daily life, from disease to predators, inevitably begin declining after they go through about half a billion heartbeats. (sentientdevelopments.com)
  • Studying other life-bearing planets may be beneficial to our own understanding of the way we live and have been living since the beginning of time. (michigandaily.com)
  • They are half beautiful women, half fish. (richgiraffe.com)
  • Also, these real mythical creatures are endowed with a beautiful voice, with which they lure sailors into their nets. (richgiraffe.com)
  • Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin would uphold this conven- ciprofl oxacin susceptibility in S. enterica infections and tion: "A dinner that ends without cheese is like a beautiful association with foreign travel, multidrug-resistant S. en- woman with one eye. (cdc.gov)
  • and complain there's nothing natural about an eighty- or ninety-year time limit on the adventure and enjoyment of life. (sentientdevelopments.com)
  • The tail is half the total length of the beast. (myanimalpet.com)
  • The speaker says, 'Perfection of the life, or of the art, / Is to be neither angel nor beast, / But a creature bipedal, / With a blending of the beast and angel's breast. (eliteskills.com)
  • Part of this study was trying to put Dickinsonia in context in the development of early life. (sciencedaily.com)
  • For decades, there have been accounts of large black cats roaming the countryside of Great Britain. (phantomsandmonsters.com)
  • For the better part of a year, creatures great and greater will fill the nave of America's largest Cathedral in America's busiest city, and then bask in the tropical splendor of Florida's finest equatorial garden. (nationalsculpture.org)
  • It's getting warmer, it's acidifying, it's rising, it's running out of fish, it's choked with plastic, it's polluted, and it's too noisy for whales and other creatures to communicate with each other. (mongabay.com)
  • And it is followed by entire schools of fish, finishing its products of life. (richgiraffe.com)
  • The first episode launches us onto the dense exoplanet of Atlas containing half-fish, half-bird creatures called "grazers" that defy gravity, unable to ever touch the ground. (michigandaily.com)
  • In a healthy soil you can have almost 50 tonnes of animal life per hectare, far more life than can often be found above the soil," he says. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • On the other side the creature could pick out a strange vertical structure composed of metal rings. (worldswithoutend.com)
  • One of these drawings is of a strange creature, which, although shaped like a man, has antlers like a stag and the tail of a wolf or wild horse. (loridevoti.com)
  • For half a dollar I'll describe the next full year of your life. (vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com)
  • I liked my creatures sharp and full of chemicals. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Will future generations take a full life span as much for granted as modern Americans do? (sentientdevelopments.com)
  • Exoplanet Eden is rich with energy and has a year's wait for a full day to pass, but illustrates the relationship between plant life, carnivores and herbivores, including a freakish six-armed monkey. (michigandaily.com)
  • Genome Sequencing in the Clinic - The question is not whether the glass is half-full or half-empty but whether or not the glass is the right tool. (cdc.gov)
  • When taking photos, Gulden moves as close as possible with half the images taken with a 50 mm lens. (all-about-photo.com)
  • It taught that the daily, secular life must be infused and interpenetrated by holiness, the epitome of which is expressed in the Kaddish. (chabad.org)
  • Discovery science in genomic medicine has generally enjoyed longstanding large collaborations for data sharing and joint analyses. (cdc.gov)
  • Problems of private nanotech and increasing anxiety over social disruptions meant the authorities had other things on their mind, and it was not until 491 AT that the New Life Consortium launched the manned colony ship Evolution . (orionsarm.com)
  • And it considers the consequences of human activity-including climate change and pollution-on the life of the sea. (mit.edu)
  • It is a call to God from the depths of catastrophe, exalting His name and praising Him, despite the realization that He has just wrenched a human being from life. (chabad.org)
  • He just isn't mouthy or human aggressive at all, and he's been that way his whole life. (mu.nu)
  • Sex appraisal is the foremost stage in reconstructing the biological profile of unidentified bodies, as it allows to limit the pool of searching individuals to just one half of the population 2-3 . (bvsalud.org)