Sentence examples for relicts from from inspiring English sources

Typical Triassic lineages were mostly relicts from the latest Permian.

The green turtle is a vanishing species, one of the last great reptile relicts from the age of the dinosaurs, and an ocean wanderer whose powers of navigation are awesome.

Problem: Many students might initially perceive works of social theory as obtuse relicts from another era that remain interesting to a cadre of academic experts but are of limited utility to everyone else.

Some, like the Solomon's seal whose snake-like shoots we found forcing their way through the silt left by winter floods, may well be relicts from gardens of water mills that disappeared long ago.

Single-copy genes (X-degenerated genes), that map to human Yp and proximal Yq, and which survive as relicts from ancient autosomes from which the X and Y evolved [4], are shown to be conserved and arranged as single-copy genes along the distal half of the chimpanzee and bonobo Yq [3], [5].

One possible explanation is that fresh water types are relicts from an historical northward expansion following Pleistocene glaciation.

Here Yvette Guilbert, enchanting relict from the old Butte nights, wore her 1890 black gloves and sang.

The prehistoric records discovered in the desert landscape are sparse, and sites are commonly associated with ancient sources of water, including streams, springs, and lakes relict from 'pluvial' time periods of enhanced rainfall.

It is relict from a diverse evolutionary history (three families and 34 genera) extending back to the Eocene Epoch (55.8 million to 33.9 million years ago) of North America; some now-extinct forms also lived during Oligocene to Miocene times in Europe and Asia.

Molecular phylogenetic evidence is consistent with B. culasiensis being a relict from the late Miocene and B. merrilliana and B. sykakiengii being younger species of Pleistocene origin.

It can be concluded that, the perched aquifer is recharged by a mix of rainwater and intruding sea water, even if that intruding sea water is relict from a higher sea level stand or some sort of catastrophic storm surge.