MICROSCOPYThe tail of a lizard affects its ability to run, leap, mate, and escape the next predator, so losing the tail is a costly sacrifice. Lizards can famously shed their tails when under threat from pursuing predators.doi:10.1017/S1551929522000815Carmichael, Stephen W....
Whale embryos do grow buds where their legs would be, but they lose them as they develop. When you were a fetus, you had a little bud where a tail would be, but it disappeared before you were born. But on rare occasions, they don't disappear, and a baby whale is born with leg-...
Image: Capcom via Polygon To find atracktail lizard, you’ll have to head to the desert areas of the Windward Plains.A good place for tracktail lizard locations is the Oasisin Area 13, which has its ownpop-up camplocation. Look around the outskirts of the oasis, and you should see som...
And with that, a flock is born. When you see a lone starling flying through the dusk it is processing any number of individual bits of information as it swoops and rolls in the half light. Navigating its way home, hunting for a meal, flirting with lady starlings, searching for nest mate...
it can stand upright on its hind legs and run across the tops of still bodies of water for up to 20 meters before sinking and being forced to swim or dive. The smaller the lizard, the easier it does this, with larger basilisks typically sinking sooner. This ability comes from their lar...
because of its overpowering size and strength. The T-Rex’s tail was long and heavy in order to balance thedinosaur’s massive head and torso. To support an animal so large in size, a lot of its bones were hollow in order to reduce its weight but not enough where it would lose ...
Johnny, a lizard (蜥蜴),lived between some rocks in the country, where he liked sunbathing every morning. One day, he felt so that he didn’t notice some boys coming up behind him. The boys caught Johnny, and he could only escape from the
Death is a fact of life. Since the beginning of time humanity has come up with numerous ways of dealing with the dearly departed. Benoitb/Getty Images Superstitions help people make sense out of a world that's just plain messy at the best of times, or completely chaotic at its worst....
Strong reactions:Dip a cotton swab in alcohol or nail polish remover. Hold the swab close to the worm's head, but DON'T touch the worm with the strong chemical. What happens when the swab is near the head? Does the worm move? Hold the swab near the tail, then near the middle. Can...
The manager politely severs the line about 10 people away, leaving the rest of us behind like the detached tail of an escaping lizard. “Operation Wii unsuccessful,” I report to my wife through my cell phone. “Why don’t we just get one off Craig’s List?” she replies. ...