Sentences with phrase «persephone centipedes»

Why not have the Brooklyn Centipedes in the East with Ed Kranepool at quarterback and in the West have the Hollywood Hi - Jackers, with James Bond as fullback?

There are centipede drumsticks, a jingle bell ant, busy bee maraca and clacker, caterpillar tambourine and 2 shaka - shaka eggs.

This adorable set comes with silly centipede drumsticks, a busy bee maraca, jingle bell ants, and a clacker.

Check out the Spiderweb Discovery Bottle and the Glowing Centipede Discovery Bottle.

New York State's political world was turned upside - down this week by the abrupt resignation of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who has been credibly accused of being a meat suit filled with centipedes.

A newly identified toxin in the venom of a tropical centipede helps the arthropod to overpower giant prey in about 30 seconds.

Insight into how this venom overwhelms lab mice could lead to an antidote for people who suffer excruciatingly painful, reportedly even fatal, centipede bites, an international research team reports the week...

This wisdom is apparent even to children, and we find it immortalized in poems such as «The Puzzled Centipede»:

In Hawaii, centipede bites account for about 400 emergency room visits a year, according to data from 2004 to 2008.

Insight into how this venom overwhelms lab mice could lead to an antidote for people who suffer excruciatingly painful, reportedly even fatal, centipede bites, an international research team reports the week of January 22 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

RECIPE FOR DISASTER Despite the lab mouse's much greater weight, chemistry gives this centipede the decisive advantage.

In a pitch - black rainforest with fluttering moths and crawling centipedes, Christina Warinner dug up her first skeleton.

A galaxy without stars seems as nonsensical as a centipede without legs, but last February astronomer Robert Minchin, now at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, reported the first - ever sighting of just such an object.

Giant crabs, centipedes and tarantulas scuttle back into their burrows.

Arthropods can have six legs (like moths), eight legs (like spiders), or sometimes one hundred legs (like centipedes), and fly or wander from the outside environment into the indoor world.

When Glenn King milks centipedes, he is not going after nutrition.

Animals including the Arthropleura — a nearly 10 - foot - long relative of the centipede — splashed through grass - free, shallow waters, their feet skimming the spongy peat made from decomposing foliage.

In recent years our incredibly varied geology has provided the oldest known vascular land plants, evidence of the oldest herbivores, as well as the earliest examples of terrestrial footprints («Did centipedes take the first steps on terra firma?»

Taken together, these regulars form a neat ecosystem, with spiders and centipedes as apex predators, hunting smaller fry such as carpet beetles and other spiders.

These toxins spanned the breadth of the animal kingdom, including ancient venomous groups such as centipedes, scorpions, spiders, coleoids (octopus, cuttlefish and squids) and cnidarians (jellyfish, sea anemones and hydras).

Although venom is common in arthropods such as spiders, scorpions, centipedes and wasps, it has never before been seen in any of the 70,000 known crustaceans, a subgroup of arthropods that includes shrimp and crabs.

Dogs bounce on two legs at a time; roaches (and, amazingly, centipedes) bounce on three legs; crabs bounce on four.

Interestingly, the Turing nanopatterning mechanism is common not only for the insect class, but also for spiders, scorpions and centipedes in other words — universal for arthropods.

Biologist Robert Full's lab is brimming with critters in motion: scuttling crabs, crawling centipedes, prowling geckos.

In Venomous, molecular biologist Christie Wilcox surveys the animal kingdom's wide array of biochemical warriors, from spiders and snakes to sea urchins and centipedes.

Just like Hades who ruled over the kingdom of shadows, the new centipede dwells among an extraordinary number of pallid cavernicolous animals, some known to science and many yet to be discovered.

In fact, so far the Hades and Persephone centipedes are the only two geophilomorphs that have adapted to live exclusively in caves, thus rightfully bearing the titles of a queen and king of the underworld.

Structurally, they resemble centipedes.

Lurking in the dark vaults of some of the world's deepest caves, the Hades centipede has also had its name picked to pair another underground - dwelling relative named after Persephone, the queen of the underworld.

An international team of scientists has discovered the deepest underground dwelling centipede.

Chiefly nocturnal, centipedes are found primarily in tropical climates but are also widely distributed in temperate zones.

The majority has at least one double bond between carbons at positions where two adjacent centipede legs are missing.

As in the millipedes (which, unlike centipedes, are not venomous), they are highly segmented (15 to 173 segments), but with only one pair of walking legs per segment.

«Deepest cave - dwelling centipede discovered: Centipede named after Hades — the Greek god of the underworld.»

Certain spiders and centipedes — despite being separated by more than 500 million years — have independently evolved the same type of venom from an insulinlike hormone.

Centipedes are dorso - ventrally flattened, and are among the fastest and most agile of non-flying arthropod predators.

Recently, he and Chinese collaborators found a hormone - derived toxin in centipedes and wanted to know how similar it was to the hobo spider's version.

Biochemist Glenn King spends his days getting up close and personal with the creatures that make us shudder: spiders, centipedes and scorpions.

Spiders, Centipedes and Scorpions Not just any venomous creature will do to create sodium channel blockers.

In a recent paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, King detailed how, in mouse models, a peptide from the venom of the Chinese red - headed centipede acted as a more potent painkiller than morphine — without side effects.

King acquired enough of that centipede for limited testing, but getting sufficient amounts of venom from other species of centipede has proven to be a challenge.

Unlike the peptides derived from spider or centipede venoms, saxitoxin is a small molecule, which means any medication based on it can be taken as a pill.

Large predatoryinvertebrates like these giant centipedes, rather frightening in theirsize — about 6 inches long — that feed on other invertebrates.

Giant crabs, centipedes and tarantulas scuttle.

But scientists who have conducted the world's first survey of arthropods — creepy crawlies like insects, spiders, mites, and centipedes — in U.S. homes, report otherwise.

(C) A recently discovered species of Mystrium, yet to be named, feeds centipedes to its offspring, then sucks the youngsters» blood for a secondhand meal.

The «great - appendage» arthropods are an early relation of arthropods, which includes spiders, scorpions, centipedes, millipedes, insects and crabs.

To the horror of residents, foot - long centipedes and poisonous snakes invaded the city to escape the eruption.

«They treat the industry like a centipede, cutting off one leg at a time, snip, snip, snip, until it starves.»

After trimming some excess fat, Böhringer believes the centipede could ultimately carry 50 times its body weight, which might make it useful for collecting samples on a Mars mission.