Euryale, and Medusa) who were entirely human in every way—except that their hair was made up of writhing, hissing snakes. So fearsome were these creatures that anyone gazing on them directly was turned to stone. Similar characters appear in the earliest centuries of Greek story-telling, in w...
It was a time when birds, beasts, insects(昆虫)and snakes no longer used their claws or teeth or poisonous stings, for they did not want to catch or eat weaker things.((A)1. A. sky B. earth C. sun D. moon(B)2. A. down B. open C. closed D. up(A)3. A. down B. off...
Dragons and snakes came out to devour the people.So she decided to mend the sky and put an end to this disaster. She chose different colored stones, set up a fire to make them into a slurry (泥浆), filled the holes in the sky with this slurry, and then cut off the four legs of...
Recent studies have identified multiple examples of loci that control much of the variation in particular traits1 including loss of bristles in flies,2 loss of pigment in cavefish,3 loss of legs in snakes,4 and reduction of armor plates and pelvic spines in sticklebacks.5,6 Frequently, key ...
The Ogdoad was a group of eight ancient Egyptian goddesses & gods who represented the primordial forces of chaos and creation. They were worshipped in the city of Hermopolis, where they were depicted as four pairs of male and female frogs and snakes. The Ogdoad consisted of Nun and Naunet ...
the object having been that the package should clearly indicate the kind of animal enclosed. Often these animal mummies were placed in theriomorphic coffins. There are mummies of jackals, cats, ibises, snakes, lizards, gazelles, hawks, bulls, sheep, baboons, crocodiles--in fact, almost every ...
I watch'd the water-snakes: They mov'd in tracks of shining white; And when they rear'd, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watch'd their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black ...
The mariner says, “The very deeps did rot: O Christ! / That ever this should be! / Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs / Upon the slimy Sea” (120-124). When everything started to go down because the mariner shot the albatross, the ocean starts to rot and slimy creatures end ...
I watched the water snakes:They moved in tracks of shining white,And when they reared, the elfish lightFell off in hoary flakes.Within the shadow of the shipI watched their rich attire:Blue, glossy green, and velvet black,They coiled and swam; and every trackWas a flash of golden fire....
This could be true because not all legless reptiles that separated from lizards ended up becoming snakes. A good number of them became legless lizards. In fact, researchers believe that only one of the 26 legless reptiles that evolved from lizards became a snake. The rest are legless lizards ...