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...
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
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...
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. ...
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...
Back in 1976, biologist Richard Dawkins coined the term meme to describe a bodiless replicator, an idea that jumps from brain to brain, interacting, recombining, taking on a life of its own in the cultural soup [source: Gleick]. Language is the original vector for memes, but in the past...