millions of years

Perhaps, after millions of years of evolution, a kiss is not just a kiss?

Too easy? Too. . . The process of every living thing on this planet evolving over millions of years from singlecelled organisms, too easy?

In terms of time, the natural process taking hundreds of thousands of years or millions of years has been shortened to less than 2 hours.

It would be a bit like experiencing a supernova explosion, but at point-blank range and for millions of years at a time.

The rapid decline of the Y chromosome seems to have ground to a halt at least tens of millions of years ago.

It is the experience of a few tens of millions of years of stormy trials, only the glory and achievements of today.

Gradually, in the course of millions of years, the surface burned itself out, and was covered with a thin layer of rocks.

The females bury their eggs in the ground, and the birth and death cycle starts all over again, just as it has for millions of years.

After the creation of the world, God Throughout human history millions of years of development, the thought of all easy to grasp.

After millions of years in this position the new moon was drawn into a collision at a speed of less than three kilometres per second.

The researchers computed that this second moon could have stayed at a Trojan point for tens of millions of years.

Believe it or not, the world got along fine without you for millions of years, and will do so long after you're gone.

Scientists call it a "living fossil" because it has probably been thriving since earliest oceans were formed millions of years ago.

How have these drifters of the sea reversed millions of years of fish dominance, seemingly overnight?

The understanding of radioactivity allowed physicists to explain how the Sun and Earth's cores could still be hot after millions of years.

I find it incredible how millions of years of volcanic activity have created mountains thousands of metres tall.

Millions of years of evolution have taught the yellow jacket that following this smell often leads to a delicious meal.

Dozens of these climatic sequences occurred over the millions of years when hominids were slowly evolving toward anatomically modern humans.

over millions of years of evolution , layers of more sophisticated reasoning have been added upon this foundation.

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

It now seems as though laughter evolved millions of years ago, long before vowels and consonants, as a mechanism to build cooperation.

useful survival mechanisms and rules of thumb about the world that have been honed by millions of years of evolution.

It took millions of years of evolution to produce the hands of a skilled flint-knapper like Sandgathe.

Whatever the reason, though, walking was still just a part-time thing for millions of years.

The human genome has accumulated over millions of years of evolution a lot of viral fragments called endogenous retroviral sequences.

A period is usually ten millions of years from the geological point of view.

They're an integral part of the ecosystem, uhm, they've been around for millions and millions of years ever since the dinosaur. . .

Previous research suggests these genes evolved in response to millions of years of retrovirus infection.

He says he believes humans might be able to travel millions of years into the future.

For the millions of years this amazing place has existed water has formed it into a palace while no human was here.

In other words, they are making a list of DNA that has been lost from the human genome during millions of years of evolution.

Over millions of years a considerable height would have to result. But why then are the Alps not as high as the Himalayas?

The differences in human DNA developed during the millions of years of human evolution.

Rather, seen over a time frame of millions of years, such devastating events occurred with some frequency.

on at least two occasions, the field has maintained one polarity for tens of millions of years.

Scientists believe that these geological formations are capable of storing virtually all the CO2 injected into them for millions of years.

After all, our ancestors spent millions of years hunting and gathering and only the last few thousand years as cultivators.

Theory holds that the cloud ought to light up as the density increases during its collapse, which can take hundreds of millions of years.

Over millions of years of evolution the Y chromosome, the biological keeper of all things male, has withered and shrunk.

The huge limestone caves known as Carlsbad Caverns (4) in New Mexico of the United States took millions of years to form.

Through you nature becomes aware of itself. Nature has been waiting for you, as it were, for millions of years.

Limestone is the result of mud, coral and the shells of plankton-like creatures compressed together over tens of millions of years.

But in this case, "sooner or later" means hundreds of millions of years, and there would be plenty of warning.

Sure, sex should be an advantage in the long term, over thousands and millions of years, but evolution doesn't work like that.

It was a precursor to India, a messenger from Gondwana -- a lost paradise of dinosaurs isolated for millions of years.

But Vostok and the other subglacial lakes were thought to be natural museums, isolated from the rest of the world millions of years ago.

How the Sun and Earth's cores could still be hot after millions of years.

Formed over millions of years, coal is a sedimentary rock that has been mined by people for use as fuel at least as far back as 1000 BC.

I think it comes from millions of years of holding that baby in front of your face, cajoling it, reprimanding it, educating it with words.

Most of the landscape that has been recorded so far has not changed much in millions of years.

One to two years of effort, over millions of years to earn the pay, but also the sustainable income, should be worth! ! !

Although the amount of matters transferred in a growing season is small, accumulated remain over millions of years is considerable.

You do not have millions of years out of school salary, you will not soon be vice president, both of which you have to rely on to come.

She countered by postulating that it was billions of years ago and that mankind lived for millions of years on Earth.

Over millions of years of evolution, the biological keeper of all things male has withered and shrunk.

What was around the bend in rivers hundreds of millions of years ago?

He explains that hundreds of millions of years ago, there was a major split in the evolutionary tree of vertebrates.

This the Sun has been doing for several thousands of millions of years.

They make the landscapes look very scenic. The landscape has been shapes by millions of years of erosion, especially by water.

or unchangeable tranquility and grandeur of this kind in large cities with thousands of people from millions of years.

Here in the Mojave Desert animals have had millions of years to adapt to the harsh environment.

The "second" moon is also thought to have been generated by the giant impact, remaining in orbit for tens of millions of years.

Money has been around for only a few thousand years, but our ancestry goes back millions of years.

Therefore, the light we see coming from the sun was actually generated millions of years ago.

Millions of years, humans are passive adaptation to the survival of the natural environment, architectural harmony with nature.

We also found that genes that have lost their introns many millions of years ago evolve especially fast near where the introns once resided.

The human brain evolved over a few hundred millions of years.

The energy in coal and oil came from the sun, stored there by the plants of millions of years ago.

Many of these microorganisms evolved symbiotically with humans over millions of years--the so-called "old friends" theory.

The point is, climate change could - over millions of years - lead to giant monsters.

For millions of years, a natural partnership between plants and soil microbes has helped regulate carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

For millions of years, mothers have had to invest a huge amount of time and effort in their children.

Picking up a drink is dead simple for people, whose brains have evolved over millions of years to coordinate exactly such tasks.

It took millions of years to prepare it for the arrival of Man, but far less for Man to despoil it.

Mary millions of years later the first green plants began to appear on land.

Agates are believed to have been formed millions of years ago during volcanic eruptions.

Bacteria have been evolving in response to threats from other species, including fungi, for hundreds of millions of years.

Imagine a world in which no deposits of energy-laden fossil fuels had developed over millions of years.

animals have had millions of years to adapt to the harsh environment.

Feathers may have become increasingly aerodynamic over millions of years, eventually allowing dinosaurs to glide from tree to tree.

Some day, millions of years from now, LS IV-14 116 will cool off to the point where it becomes a bona fide white dwarf.

Whether life will continue on the earth for millions of years to come will depend on whether this problem can be solved.

The jagged, irregular shapes in this image may be slabs of ice from an ocean frozen millions of years ago, then covered with Martian dust.

He says during evolution millions of years ago, domesticated cattle separated from a common ancestor that led to humans.

Which observation about the Mid-Atlantic Ridge region provides the best evidence that the seafloor has been spreading for millions of years?

Over millions of years, the human body has adapted to maximize efficiency, protect our most delicate areas, and be durable and tough.

Now that curtain has risen and men can look back to a past of scores and hundreds of millions of years.

The flowers have been growing thorns for millions of years. For millions of years the sheep have been eating them just the same.

Simply put, the fingers on our hands differ in length, because this particular shape works so well, and has done so for millions of years.

Along this island are dynamic features that have revealed the earth's innermost geologic secrets for perhaps millions of years.

Natural gas is considered the cleanest of the fossil fuels, the fuels created by plant and animal remains over millions of years.

Atmosphere came into being in the planet millions of years ago.

Before reaching the cave, I climbed over a large petrified tree trunk, three feet in diameter, dating back millions of years.

Planets do not have wings, but they have been flying round in their orbits for millions of years.

She paid for us as a sea of, and we return to her as a drop of water, She is for our cost millions of years, our company, she only a second.

Sharks have reigned at the top of the ocean food chain for hundreds of millions of years.

Millions of years ago CengFanHua noisy here, all the time, the flowers are circulation of vast desert mysterious buried.

Visual abilities have been developing in animal predecessors for hundreds of millions of years.

The fossils were found in a seam of limestone that was 50 feet thick and was created when ocean sediments solidified millions of years ago.

But the amygdala and the periaqueductal gray are ancient parts of the brain, dating back hundreds of millions of years.

They could have been isolated from millions of years from the inhospitable conditions on the planet's surface.

Sure enough, cancer is found in almost all multicellular organisms, suggesting its origins stretch back hundreds of millions of years.

Though highly vulnerable to changing sea chemistry, these master builders of Indo-Pacific reefs have persisted for millions of years.

In the movie and novel Jurassic Park, DNA preserved in an insect trapped in amber millions of years ago is used to recreate dinosaurs.

Some scientists now believe that depression evolved millions of years ago as a coping mechanism.

But New Madrid is in the middle of the North America plate, which has been stable for tens of millions of years.

Natural selection, as Darwin called this process, would could gradually create enormous changes over millions of years.

Across millions of years, a little thing like grabbing fruit can trigger an entire change of species.

For millions of years, the freezing waters of the southern seas remained our domain. Man never ventured this far.

The weight of heavy rocks pushed all the dead bodies together and after many millions of years, they changed into oil.

The researchers tried to determine what these animals ate millions of years ago.

These tiny entities survived for millions of years in solid rock, two kilometers deeper into the Earth's crust than any recorded life.

Evolutionary theory says that complex life forms have developed through cellular changes over millions of years.

"There were whales here millions of years before there were ships, or cities, or even cavemen . " continued Lilly's grandmother.

Theoretical models and field observations show that such deep crustal fluid channels may persist for millions of years.

These animals have been evolving in the Philippine archipelago for millions of years.

Or are they worth saving because they are the beautiful achievement of millions of years of natural selection?

Millions of years ago, early men used a stick, a large piece of wood and leaves to make a fire.

For millions of years, on the grasslands of Africa, women commuted to work to gather their vegetables.

We were millions of years too late to use most of the tools of modern-day coroners .

Nobody really worries about what is going to happen millions of years hence.

The layered deposits in the polar regions of Mars should hopefully have recorded these changes over millions of years.

This mission is symbolized by the super-continent Pangea that existed millions of years ago when the continents were connected as one.

People were speaking for hundreds of thousands-perhaps millions-of years before writing was invented.

The valley itself is slowly sinking, and millions of years from now it will rest on the sea floor.

After clearing the galaxy, however, the jets inflate large radio bubbles that likely glow for millions of years.

It book millions of years for fossil fuels to be formed from plants .

Supposedly, dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.

It is believed the sinkholes, several hundred meters underground, were formed millions of years ago by some unusual geological movements.

Ants have been converting plant biomass into energy for millions of years.

Abalone have been found embedded in rocks dating from as far back as millions of years ago, James Fraioli writes in Ocean Friendly Cuisine.

Some carbon is fixed into rocks over millions of years through organic processes on land and under the sea.

Johnson says it could go back millions of years, to when a losing bet was way more serious.

Earthquakes created these mountains millions of years ago and earthquakes could strike again at any moment.

It took millions of years for our hands to go from grasping tree limbs to writing poetry.

Over long periods of time (millions of years), accumulations of gas and oil can collect in the sandy layers.

That beginning, he reasoned, may have lasted "millions upon millions of years. "

It merely relies on our natural bodies and brains functioning as they have for millions of years.

Laughter probably predates human speech by millions of years, scientists think.

Perhaps sleepy crab fossils millions of years to re-awakening also selected master planning.

Fossil seashells trace the evolution of various mollusks through millions of years.

These genes, honed by millions of years of evolution, appearto have betrayed many of us in the 21st century world.

It has valleys formed by ancient ice that cut deep into the Earth millions of years ago.

The Hawaiian Islands were formed starting millions of years ago by hot liquid rock flowing from undersea volcanoes.

By comparing the domesticated plant to other wild rice species, they discovered a lot of genetic variation in rice over millions of years.

Species similar to those at whale falls may have depended on dead marine reptiles for hundreds of millions of years.

Now that argument was blown away: Anchiornis is millions of years older than Archaeopteryx.

Millions of years later these would become the giant rocks called Half Dome and El Capitan in Yosemite Park.

These preserved life forms were trapped by fresh sticky resin that oozed from coniferous trees millions of years ago.

These species have inhabited the vents for many millions of years and may offer a window into Earth's primordial past.

Jade Xinjiang Gobi Gobi Desert in northern Xinjiang, after millions of years to form, the locals called "desert jade. "

Something that last happened millions upon millions of years ago happens again. Though it's not as memorable as last time.

That these things absorb sunlight, rot under pressure for millions of years, and you get these black rivers.

I was formed millions of years past and now you see the results of my evolution.

An extra tail lobe, unique to coelacanths, can be seen today and in fossils from millions of years ago.

My theory is that over millions of years, evolution has hardwired the human nervous system to rouse in two ways.

In fact, the Coma Cluster is so big it takes light millions of years just to go from one side to the other!

The Alps's began forming tens of millions of years ago, when the African tectonic plate slowly collided with the European plate.

Meteorites likely traveled in space for millions of years before visiting us here on Earth.

For millions of years, the scouts on honey bee swarms have faced the task of selecting proper homes.

Evolution teaches that life somehow came from some kind of non-living matter millions of years ago.

The fossil showed that it began its expansion of territory millions of years ago.

They have taken for millions of years, long before humans even existed, much less populated their island.

The major bones in human knees, backs and wrists arose in aquatic creatures hundreds of millions of years ago.

From other stars , light can take millions of years to come to us !

We prefer fatty foods because our bodies crave these foods, because we evolved to eat animal fats over millions of years.

Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.

Geological heritages result from geological processes through millions of years and are hence most important natural heritages.

Radiation from hot, young stars has slowly eroded the nebula over millions of years.

Nature has apparently been experimenting in this field for millions of years.

the vast yellow land was the coat of the loess plateau, which was made by the mighty nature throught millions of years' piling up.

Of course this in itself would take millions of years, at the present there seems no way to terraform Mars and no reason to.

deposit Millions of years later, a thick deposit of rich fertile soil has formed in the delta.

She discovered how clay beds, which existed for millions of years, were formed.

Within them are the remains of ferns, trees, mosses, and other life-forms from millions of years ago.

Yes, it took millions of years for the landmasses to drift apart, but the 2008 Olympic Games will put them back again.

The planet has survived major changes for millions upon millions of years.

Amber is the ancient and fossilized resin of long dead trees that grew in forests millions of years ago.

During all these tens and hundreds of millions of years, more stars are being born from the detritus of the first stars.

In Africa there lives an extraordinary tree. She is the queen of the river bank, a monarch whose story stretches back millions of years.

Multiple forces have shaped Shikotan over millions of years.

Millions of years ago, we were avoiding animals that wanted to eat us. Today, we're selling houses.

They've been on earth millions of years -- a whole lot longer than we have.

Amber is actually ancient tree sap that has hardened over millions of years.

Oil and gas deposits are products of solar energy stored for millions of years.

The Hawaiian island chain has been built up by similar flows of molten rock over millions of years.

For millions of years it drifted aimlessly with the currents.

Solid back millions of years to withstand the vicissitudes of calm.

We can tell from fossil evidence in rocks that many living species have become extinct over the millions of years since life began.

Formed naturally after hundreds of millions of years.

They've been doing it for hundreds of millions of years.

The water the dinosaurs drank millions of years ago is the same water that falls as rain today.

At any moment, the atmosphere should fall, but for millions of years it doesn't.

Millions of years ago, the natural environment was shaping us into the species we are now.

Millions of years ago, mosquitoes were three times as large as they are today.

Hot liquid rock called lava formed the Hawaiian Islands millions of years ago.

'Orcas had millions of years to optimise their sonar and it shows, ' said researcher Onur Kilic.

Maya mathematicians could project this calendar millions of years in the past and the future, time had no beginning, no end.

It is a symbiotic relationship that has worked well for millions of years.

Coal was made by rocks pressing on trees and plants which died millions of years ago.

Over millions of years your body has evolved for survival.

I think for millions of years men faced their enemies, they sat side by side with friends.

captured over millions of years by millions of plants.

Water vapour in the atmosphere produces the strongest greenhouse effect, but it has been in balance for millions of years.

Millions of years ago, this area was a vast sea.

They lived on the earth tens of millions of years ago, long before humans came into being and their future seemed secure at that time.

In tandem with this loss of diversity, global carbon cycles oscillated wildly for millions of years.

Go back millions of years to the grasslands of Africa.

Because there is no air or wind on the moon, the footprints may stay there for millions of years.

This can happen over a period of weeks or many millions of years.

It's taken millions of years for volcanoes and lava flows to build Iceland.

Scientists think that there has been life on Earth for millions of years . However, we haven "t found life on other planets yet. Why not? "

Oil and coal come from the plants and animals that died millions of years ago.

Dinosaurs became extinct millions of years ago.

Other epochs have lasted millions of years.

Man has ravened the earth for millions upon millions of years.

Nature has ap-parently been experimenting in this field for millions of years.

How did the moon remain magnetic tens of millions of years after its molten core stopped sloshing?

The remains were found in a sedimentary rock formation, which was a lake millions of years ago.

Open clusters, in general, are loosely bound and they disperse over hundreds of millions of years.

Earth's land masses didn't break apart all at once, but over tens of millions of years.

And millions of years ago, we started putting more meat on our menus.

We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little.

It's been carving canyons for millions of years.

When today's biodiversity was taking shape millions of years ago, seasons as we know them didn't really exist.

These eggs were laid by dinosaurs millions of years ago.

The hole is millions of years ago in taihu lake water erosion.

In this story, a group of people travel millions of years into the past to hunt dinosaurs.

People have lived on the Earth for millions of years.

We've evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us.

It'll take us millions of years to finish this work.

The process would take tens of millions of years, meaning that oceans were sloshing around on Earth by as early as 4. 4 billion years ago.

And then they are fossilized over millions of years.

Dinosaurs died out millions of years ago.

They will then amalgamate and in your Earth time you feel this will take millions of years.

There has been life on earth for millions of years.

and plants that lived on the earth millions of years ago.

It is thought that millions of years ago this liquid mass pushed upward through cracks in the earth's crust.

But there is enough hydrogen left to last for millions of years.

If we could keep records across millions of years, we might want to count monkeys and apes as our cousins too.

Galactic mergers take millions of years, so they can't readily be observed in progress.

We know that on earth, some bacteria can survive being frozen for millions of years.

Scientists think that there has been life on Earth for millions of years.

JV: How many millions of years ago did this predatory dinosaur live, and when did it die out?

Coal is made from trees and other plants that grew on the earth millions of years ago.

For example, the fossil record shows elephants that found their way onto islands millions of years ago shrank rapidly.

A lot of what we see there hasn't changed for millions of years.

Mountains rise and fall over tens of millions of years; oceans open and close at rates even slower than that.

As far as we can tell Earth's atmospheric oxygen has remained at about 20 percent for hundreds of millions of years.

Could be longer than that, sometimes even millions of years.