Ask Mr Takahashi about the future, however, and he responds with a carnivorous grin.

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Those opposed to METI argue that broadcasting signals into space announcing the location of Earth is tantamount to ringing a dinner gong for any carnivorous, colonising or anti-social aliens who might be listening.

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Besides the LJMs, Fastow also discussed financial mechanisms called Raptors--curiously sharing a name with the ruthless, carnivorous beasts of Jurassic Park.

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Footage of three-foot worms and carnivorous starfish feasting on a seal carcass at the bottom of the Antarctic, from the Life series, was shown on screens during the show.

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Its Malagasy name refers to its carnivorous diet and isolation on a landmass in the middle of the ocean.

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In the world's most carnivorous country, vegetarians used to be a tiny band of masochists.

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It is not a pretty, or terribly edifying sight, whether for farmers, carnivorous consumers, politicians or those who care about animals.

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This gives more weight to a very well-supported theory that modern birds evolved from theropods, the group of small carnivorous dinosaurs to which Sinosauropteryx belonged.

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