What is "forests"

Usage examples of "forests".

Herds had gathered around this shallow lake, a bewildering, brightly colored array of them, and Purga and Second had to creep past forests of their great, immobile legs, like refugees in an immense sculpture park.

In the endless Pangaean forests, there was always another who would take her place.

After the encounter with the whale it continued its descent toward the thick Cretaceous forests, only a fraction of its kinetic energy expended.

The trees of the mighty Cretaceous forests were consumed like pine needles.

In an equable world where tropical or paratropical forests spread far from the equator, there was little seasonal variation, and here in Texas the trees did not shed their leaves regularly.

She looked something like a capuchin, the organ-grinder monkey that would one day roam the forests of South America, and was about that size.

They had migrated down through the Old World to inhabit the dense tropical forests of Asia, and here in Africa.

Their natural habitat, the tropical forests, had shriveled back to the southern tropics.

Fruit eaters like Roamer lingered only in the tropical woodlands of Africa and southern Asia, clinging to the year-long food supply these forests still provided.

In this world of shrinking forests, the surviving animals had already crammed themselves into all the remaining islands of the old vegetation.

On the volcanic hills grew humid forests, and a complex mosaic of vegetation, from woodland to savannah to scrub, filled the floor.

Small, slow, and defenseless, the hominids, walking blinking out of their forests, were an easy target for such creatures.

Even the development of language was driven, in part, by these pressures, as the specialized alarm cries that dated back to the forests of the notharctus slowly morphed into more flexible words.

As far as he knew the ferocious folk of the interior kept the produce of the forests and grassy spaces to themselves.

Each hut had been erected over a frame of spruce saplings, brought from the forests to the south.