Sentence examples for until a specimen from inspiring English sources

Often called a living fossil, the coelacanth (pronounced SEE-luh-canth) was long believed to have fallen extinct 70 million years ago, until a specimen was recognized in a fish market in South Africa in 1938.

An alternative is that the organism dwelt on seaweeds, but until a specimen unquestionably in situ is discovered, its mode of life remains open to debate.

Researchers have found interstellar dust grains in some less-altered meteorites by a drastic procedure: dissolving a specimen until all that remains are the hardy mineral bits condensed in the atmospheres of stars long ago--silicon carbide, graphite, and diamond.

He instead wanted to wait until a male specimen could be procured, since he imagined it would be more attractive.

A live rhinoceros was not seen again in Europe until a second specimen, named Abada, arrived from India at the court of Sebastian of Portugal in 1577, being later inherited by Philip II of Spain around 1580.

Coelacanths were long believed to be extinct until a live specimen of the African coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) was caught off the coast of South Africa in 1938 [ 27].

However, they can be used to hold a place in a collection until a finer specimen is found.

The grilled chicken wings are good enough — they really do taste as if they were plucked off a backyard grill — but what you may remember best are the mickeys, Yukon gold potatoes tossed into the coals until they resemble a geological specimen, then served with an upscale take on the usual fixings: crème fraîche, aged gouda, and Normandy butter.

Briefly, tpsRelw uses a generalized Procrustes analysis (GPA) to compute a consensus shape with a minimum sum of squared Procrustes distances to other specimens wherein each specimen is individually superimposed onto the average of previous specimens until all specimens are averaged.

2) Acclimation at ramping temperatures: starting at 20°C, the temperature was raised 1°C every 48 h, until all specimens died.

Most of the conclusions were expected, until they examined a tiny specimen that they had found lying on its back in a West Side apartment.