The majority of abalone species are found in cold waters, off the Southern Hemisphere coasts of New Zealand, South Africa and Australia, and Western North America and Japan in the Northern Hemisphere.

A paradox in metabolism is that, while the vast majority of complex life on Earth requires oxygen for its existence, oxygen is a highly reactive molecule that damages living organisms by producing reactive oxygen species.

The vast majority of bird species are socially monogamous, usually for one breeding season at a time, sometimes for years, but rarely for life.

The brain of a shark shows the basic components in a straightforward way, but in teleost fishes ( the great majority of existing fish species ), the forebrain has become " everted ", like a sock turned inside out.

All the families combined contain over 800 species in about 70 genera ; the majority of species are in the Commelinaceae.

The knowledge of this order to national level, is that to be expected in countries with limited economic means with the vast majority of species indeterminate or even poorly determined.

Thanks to Magneto, though, this re-imagined world is a place where a much more numerous mutant-kind are the dominant species, humans a disenfranchised and oppressed ' silent majority ', and Magneto himself rules supreme.

In the great majority of species, the tail is between a third and a half the length of the body, although there are some exceptions ( for example, the bobcat and margay ).

Peter Raven, past President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ), states in the foreword to their publication AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment: " We have driven the rate of biological extinction, the permanent loss of species, up several hundred times beyond its historical levels, and are threatened with the loss of a majority of all species by the end of the 21st century.

The vast majority of animal species are invertebrates, since only about 3 % of animal species include a vertebral column in their anatomy.

There are about 255 species in North America, but the majority of species live in the tropical regions of the world.

Most species are tropical in distribution, and a slight majority are found only in forests.

All 651 species of terrestrial snail are endemic, as are a majority of the island's butterflies, scarab beetles, lacewings, spiders and dragonflies.

The majority of non-silicate mineral species are extremely rare ( constituting in total 8 % of the Earth's crust ), although some are relative common, such as calcite, pyrite, magnetite, and hematite.

In bilaterian animals, which make up the great majority of existing species, the nervous system has a common structure that originated early in the Cambrian period, over 500 million years ago.

These include sensory neurons that transmute physical stimuli such as light and sound into neural signals, and motor neurons that transmute neural signals into activation of muscles or glands ; however in many species the great majority of neurons receive all of their input from other neurons and send their output to other neurons.

The vast majority of fish are osteichthyes, which is an extremely diverse and abundant group consisting of over 29, 000 species.

El Yunque National Forest, a tropical rainforest, is home to the majority ( 13 of 16 ) of species of coquí.

Up until the last half-decade, the majority of the scientific community included all the species of both Australopithecus and Paranthropus in a single genus.

The great majority of mollusk species produce pearls which are not attractive, and are sometimes not even very durable, such that they usually have no value at all, except perhaps to a scientist, a collector, or as a curiosity.

Phrased another way: young males ( who make up the vast majority of combatants in civil wars ) are less likely to join a rebellion if they are getting an education and / or have a comfortable salary, and can reasonably assume that they will prosper in the future.

Margaret Mitchell did not originate them and a young novelist can scarcely be faulted for not knowing what the majority of mature, professional historians did not know until many years later.

The Japanese use different kanji for two closely allied meanings of " seinen "— for " youth, young man " and for " adult, majority "— the second referring to sexually overt manga aimed at grown men and also called seijin (" adult " ) manga.

It was the most popular American book of its time ; by 1837 it had sold 15 million copies, and some 60 million by 1890 — reaching the majority of young students in the nation's first century.

John W. Mecom, Jr., a young oilman from Houston, became the team's first majority stockholder.

Henry VI ’ s widow Constance of Sicily ruled over Sicily for her young son before he reached the age of majority.

Blackburn and McKinley's ulterior reference counting combines deferred reference counting with a copying nursery, observing that the majority of pointer mutations occur in young objects.

Many young people worked as prostitutes ( the majority of prostitutes in London were between 15 and 22 years of age ).

The shergottites appear to have crystallised as recently as 180 million years ago, which is a surprisingly young age considering how ancient the majority of the surface of Mars appears to be, and the small size of Mars itself.

The majority of SNC meteorites are quite young compared to most other meteorites and seem to imply that volcanic activity was present on Mars only a few hundred million years ago.

William O ' Brien, a professor of Georgetown University, wrote about active participation of Palestinian children in the First Intifada: " It appears that a substantial number, if not the majority, of troops of the intifada are young people, including elementary schoolchildren.

The majority of the population are young ; 66 % of the population are under the age of 30, and 8. 6 % of the population are over the age of 60.

In England and Wales the majority of young full-time university students attend universities situated a long distance from their family homes ; this is not true for universities in most European countries, such as Italy or Spain.

On the other hand, there are quite a few youth-oriented compound bows with low draw weights that feature no let-off with the maximum draw length deliberately set farther than the majority of young shooters would reach.

Nixon's silent majority referred mainly to the older generation ( those World War II veterans in all parts of the U. S .) but it also described many young people in the Midwest, West and in the South, many of whom eventually served in Vietnam.

The majority of evidence gathered on Centeotl suggests that he is usually portrayed as a young man ( although a debate is still ongoing ), with yellow body colouration.

The majority of homes in Brentwood were built during and after World War II ; young people coming to Washington, D. C., to support the war effort found a quiet place to raise their families.

When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, the majority of Newtown's young men joined Confederate forces.

Justice Rosalie Abella wrote for the majority, " A young person is entitled to a degree of decisional autonomy commensurate with his or her maturity.

The Catholic sex abuse cases are a series of convictions, trials and investigations into allegations of child sexual abuse crimes committed by Catholic priests and members of Roman Catholic orders against children as young as 3 years old with the majority between the ages of 11 and 14.

The young stellar population and the majority of the known X-ray binaries are concentrated in the SMC ’ s Bar.

While most people who were employed under the original Bracero Program were men, the majority of maquiladora employees are young women.

This is distinct from a venture capital or growth capital investment, in which the investors ( typically venture capital firms or angel investors ) invest in young or emerging companies, and rarely obtain majority control.

The majority of fatalities, from both the war and the epidemic, were among young adults.