Sentence examples for formidable species from inspiring English sources

Fragments of DNA plucked from a 38,000-year-old Neanderthal fossil have pinpointed the time when modern humans split from their long-faced, barrel-chested relatives to become the world's most formidable species.

The bilharzia snail and the Simulium fly (host to an organism causing blindness), the tsetse fly, and the mosquito collectively affect human beings and their livestock far more than do such individually large or formidable species as lions or elephants.

Other apex predators seem to have gained from the extinction of this formidable species.

In our warming world, ultimately it will take a combination of government protection, reintroduction efforts in places like Colorado, protected corridors, and changes in natural resources management to ensure this formidable species' survival.

The mathematical complexities of a system of n competing species are formidable; Vano et al. (2006) consider four competing species.

Morphologically variable complexes of species represent formidable challenges for species delimitation and for understanding the mechanisms involved in their evolution.

The large genome size and presence of over 80% repetitive sequences [ 2] makes the development of a complete physical map, a necessary first step to whole genome assembly of this species, a formidable challenge.

Natural resource planning increasingly emphasizes control of undesired exotic plant species, which pose formidable challenges to conservation on many urban and wildland landscapes such as national parks.

Due to easy accessibility and lack of formidable nest defense by such species, bald eagles are capable of predating such seabirds at all ages, from eggs to mature adults, and can effectively cull large portions of a colony.

The powerful symmetry and curving shapes of this mask are linked with the flattened taotie motif, but the mask is still an entirely different species of being, a formidable overseer, at once stern and benign.

"Cats are way up there in terms of threats to birds — they are a formidable force in driving out native species," said Peter Marra of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, one of the authors of the study.