Sentence examples for huge colonies from inspiring English sources

But it found no trace of the egrets, herons or others that were part of the huge colonies.

He suggested, half-jokingly, that there could be huge colonies of methane-eating microbes on Mars that eliminated the gas from the air.

Most striking was that the bleaching was not just near the surface, where the water is warmest, but at depths of tens of metres where huge colonies of coral were white as well.

Drive the Snaefellsnes Peninsula as part of a self-guided tour: it has huge colonies of birds nesting on the cliffs either side of the peninsula, with puffins a highlight.

On a recent August morning, she made it to the site and found 19 young lobsters – far down from the huge colonies she found seven years ago, she said.

After visiting Cregneash, a charming, restored farm village of 300-year-old cottages with whitewashed walls and thatched roofs, I walked east toward the Chasms on the coast where huge colonies of seabirds purportedly nest.

At the end of the walk there's a huge colony of grey and common seals, loafing on the beach as terns screech overhead.

And what works for individuals might work even better for a huge colony, in which individuals benefit from the pooled excreta of thousands of neighbours.

The city centre has a huge colony of lorikeets which goes crazy at dusk, and there are hundreds of water-birds along the beach, ranging from pelicans to spoon-bills to herons.

He led several expeditions, tracing the 2000-mile cofrse of the river Zaire Congoo) to the sea, and carving out a huge colony in central Africa for his friend and employer, Leopold of Belgium.

The discovery of such a huge colony of genetically identical amoebas provides insight into how such cooperation and sociality might have evolved and may help to explain why microbes are being found to show social behaviors more often than was expected.