Max felt some relief, and yet the creatures were still closing in on him.
It suggested the creatures might one day be used to aid search-and-rescue operations and surveillance.
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That accounts for the disappearing ichnotaxa: the creatures that made them did not survive the holocaust.
The creatures had underdeveloped brains and a single eye planted, cyclopslike, in the middle of their foreheads.
With few predators to make them wary of humans, many of the creatures seem tame and curious.
From afar the creatures appear gawky and unsettling, with their long, scrawny legs, puffball bodies and impossible necks.
Mr Beehler said some of the creatures the team came into contact with were remarkably unafraid of humans.
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Many of the creatures there were swept out to sea: fish, sea lions and eight Atlantic bottle-nose dolphins.
And all the creatures of Earth, just like the three of us circling it, all dependent on water.
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Some scientists have suggested sinking dead whales off the Scottish coast in the hope of observing the creatures.
Members of the public are being encouraged to report sightings of the creatures so records can be built up.
The creatures have engineered the rings to maintain a supply of water in their environment, he tells Science magazine.
More than two million hunters paid for a "duck stamp, " a federal licence to shoot the creatures in the 1970s.
For centuries, scientists have catalogued the creatures of Europe - the tall and the small, the feathered and the furred.
The researchers were able to capture and physically examine one of the creatures, before releasing it back into the wild.
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The group is investigating ways to harvest energy from the creatures to power sensors and other equipment fastened to their bodies.
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The annual Mermaid Parade sees thousands of people, in home-made floats and costumes, celebrating the creatures and myths of the sea.
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Since the creatures remained hidden, Sadid commandeered a thin canoe and we paddled into the lagoon to take a closer look.
But the fishermen report that the creatures wriggling in their nets are getting smaller and the competition for them more intense.
There, beginning in the 1860s, farmers raised the creatures for their plumes.
However, the creatures' wing membranes were not rigid or strong enough to support the device, and it also made them less aerodynamic.
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Bonus points for doing it without letting the creatures damage your fort.
The creatures towered over him, and outweighed him by thousands of pounds.
They are urging people not to touch the creatures and have issued health advice to anyone who does come into contact with them.
There is no need to panic, however: the creatures in question are harmless bacteria that were found preserved in a crystal of rock salt.
The challenge is this: God didn't create psychiatric disorders when he was naming the fish of the sea and the creatures of the land.
Gary Campbell, president of the official loch Ness monster fan club, said Mr Sundberg could be in trouble if any of the creatures were harmed.
The extraordinary devotion of the staff to the health and well-being of the creatures on display is balanced by the dullness of existence behind bars.
Many a western teenager has learned about marksmanship by plinking away in a prairie dog town, the hummocky meadows where the creatures live and play.
As the sun sets each night, a black cloud emerges from under the bridge as the creatures go in search of moths and other bugs to call dinner.
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