Then, a few weeks ago, seal pups born elsewhere began floating in on small, shrinking pieces of ice.
Burakovsky snuck up on Girardi, collected the loose puck and whistled it through a small, shrinking gap between Andrei Vasilevskiy's right arm and right hip.
Another possible explanation for our pattern is that genetic drift in small, shrinking populations resulted in the loss of existing rare haplotypes during postglacial forest fragmentation.
Use a hole punch to make holes, small holes shrink smaller, so try to find something that makes a large hole.
On the remote Scottish island of Hirta, sheep have been getting smaller, shrinking an average of 5% over the last 24 years.
Yet, it is so incredibly saturated with people trying to do exactly the same thing that the opportunity gets smaller and smaller, shrinking to the size of a pin point as more people hop online.
Then, over the next 130,000 years, these "protohorses" became even smaller, shrinking to the size of a house cat (artist's reconstruction of Sifrhippus sandrae, right, compared with a modern-day Morgan horse, which weighs a half-ton).
For instance, our frame elements on the sphere consist of smooth functions supported on small shrinking caps.
Compared to most of conventional samplers, the developed sampler has several significant merits, e.g. small shrinking volume, large working space and low power consumption.
The standard interpretation biologists once learned and taught was that legs evolved in fish so that they could haul themselves overland from small shrinking pools to larger ones when rivers or estuaries dried up in times of low rainfall effectively allowing them to locate larger and less stagnant pools of water that were still habitable where they might survive until water levels rose again.
