Sentences with word «arachnid»

While the Indie Obscura crews explored the PAX West convention floor, we had a chance to chat with Leo Dasso, the creative director of Arachnid Games to learn more about the stylistic and conceptual inspirations behind the indie title.

Unexpectedly, when she eliminated leg development genes in arachnid embryos she also found that their head segments disappeared.

Players who participate in the launch event will get the first wing, Arachnid Quarter, for free.

In fact, in my experience, most people fail with arachnids in general by overfeeding them.

I played a short demo at PAX West and chatted with Jacob Stove Lorentzen, Technical Director at Arachnid Games about how deep the game goes — see that in the video above.

Rod Crawford, curator of arachnids at the Burke Museum of the University of Washington, notes that a handful of human deaths have been attributed to the hobo spider but that even a physician's diagnosis is shaky evidence in the absence of the culprit.

The spider attack in Mirkwood outdoes the giant arachnid encounter in the Lord of the Rings and reminds of the giant bug fun Jackson and his cohorts had in King Kong.

Thanks to Mother Nature's great freeze - frame device known as amber, scientists have just discovered a remarkable new species of arachnid from 100 million years ago.

The study «fills a gap in the fossil record with an extremely well - preserved specimen» and may provide valuable clues about a species that has been «virtually ignored by zoologists,» adds Jason Dunlop, curator for arachnids at the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt - Universität in Berlin, Germany.

Spiders don't often resemble birds, but pelican spiders — which use beaklike mouthparts to spear other arachnids — are a notable exception.

A spider - like arachnid fossil helps explain the evolutionary path of modern harvestmen, often called «daddy longlegs»

The ability to produce smells is rare among arachnids, but not unique to bird - dung crab spiders.

Much of the reason for the oversight is simply because there are few spider species on Red Lists of threatened species, and because fewer than 20 % of studies show a harmful effect on arachnids.

I find most people who do poorly with arachnids do so by overfeeding them.

Dubbed «face mites,» D. folliculorum are actually tiny arachnids that inhabit hairs throughout the human body and consume skin cells and oils.

She released batches of these spindly arachnids into the gallery three weeks ago as part of Pierre Huyghe's current exhibition there, and many have since disappeared — venturing outside, burrowing out of sight, or getting stepped on at the show's opening.

Spiders Arachnids such as the venomous Redback spider not only look scary, they are also dangerous to humans.

The new species was part of a previously unknown group of ancient arachnids that could help scientists suss out how and when spiders and their cousins evolved, the team reports March 30 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

1/12/2017 - From Tuscany Italy, the trio known as Disboskator, unleash their new four song EP Terror in Dreamland with a sound laced with arachnid venom.

The enemy hordes, too, are effectively creepy and aberrant, coming in sizes ranging from your run - of - the - mill, Middle Earth - style orcs (or wargar, as the game calls them) to gargantuan arachnid beasts and even dragons.

In Hours of Darkness, you'll trade gunfire with Vietcong fighters in Vietnam, while Lost on Mars takes you to the titular red planet to test your mettle against Martian arachnids.

Other significant presentations include Aerocene, at Solutions COP21, Grand Palais, Paris; Arachnid Orchestra.

The birdlike arachnids also prowl the forests of South Africa and Australia, but the newly discovered pelican spiders are found only in Madagascar.

Tick is the common name for the small arachnids that, along with mites, constitute the order Acarina.

Take a closer look at the report here, and other members of this fascinating arachnid species on Jürgen Otto's YouTube channel, Peacockspiderman or his Flickr stream.

By studying live spiders, comparing and contrasting different types, and creating iterative versions of their drawings, students construct their own understanding about arachnids, which the teacher can easily assess through the works of art.

At one point I got out a calculator to figure out if a weapon with an extra 3 damage was worth dealing 10 % less damage against arachnids, for example (and that's a pretty tame example at that).

Diluvion, an indie deep sea exploration game by Arachnid Games, offers a unique take on the submarine genre by presenting a fantasy world where mankind lives under the sea after a great flood.

This is especially true in the art world, with images of arachnids almost a genre unto themselves.

Squitter the Spider is a large arachnid companion that can defeat enemies with a web spit attack, and create web platforms to jump on.

Back in the lab, researchers grabbed scorpions» stingers with forceps and found that the armored arachnids actively tore off their own tails when they felt the pinch (see video).

Those much older animals formed the basis of a new arachnid order, the Uraraneida, which would lead the way to modern spiders.

A lucky fossil find and a novel imaging technique have brought researchers closer to understanding the mysterious origins of the sea spider, a spindly arachnid that dwells on the ocean floor.

The team placed the creature (artist's sketch, above) in a new genus dubbed Idmonarachne (named after Idmon, who in Greco - Roman mythology was the father of Arachne; she, in turn, was a talented weaver who lends her name to the group of invertebrates called arachnids, to which spiders belong).

I. brasieri also lacked a tail - like appendage found on known arachnid ancestors that lived at the same time, during the late Carboniferous period.

If that's making your skin crawl, take solace in the fact that the new arachnid, dubbed Chimerarachne, lived 100 million years ago and its remains were found trapped in amber.

As the market gets swallowed up by a core consumer taste leaning toward spandex and radioactive arachnid bites, there's a need for modern thinking, engaging directors to offer something different.

A steadfast, exquisitely gargantuan arachnid, Maman was exhibited at the Tate Modern in London and Guggenheim Bilbao where it was received with international acclaim and resulted in Bourgeois being hailed as «Spiderwoman.»

Ticks, according to Healthline, are pesky arachnids with eight legs and an uncontrollable hunger that torments your precious pup by sucking the blood and life out of her day.

Blood - sucking arachnids probably don't top the list of typical dinner conversation topics.

Outsiders find it hard to believe, but reptiles, amphibians and even arachnids can be cute, charming and occasionally downright hilarious.

Spider - Man must have returned the favor and bit this hairy arachnid because it has some unbelievable moves.

Diluvion is an underwater exploration game by developer Arachnid Games in which you pilot a Steampunk-esque submarine through dark oceanic depths.

Standing more than 10 feet tall, Spider, Louise Bourgeois's mammoth bronze arachnid, can not help but conjure the fear stoked by cult American science - fiction films of the late 1950s.

Wangechi Mutu, «Royal Blue Arachnid Curse», (view of piece installed with damaged wall), 2005, ink, collage, contact paper on Mylar, 77 1/2 x 51 1/2 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; Photo credit: Joshua White.

But with these new works, such as Sleeping Heads and Royal Blue Arachnid Curse (at AGO), you have really incorporated them together to become one piece.

One of his most spectacular arachnid inspired installations, Galaxy Forming along Filaments, Like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider's Web was exhibited at the Italian Pavilion for the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009.

Description: Spider mites are red arachnids almost too small to be seen with the naked eye.

By far the most difficult pests to control are spider mites, barely visible eight - legged arachnids that build small webs on the underside of leaves and thus are hard to spot.

Members of an earlier arachnid branch, called the Uraraneida, known from 385 - million - year - old fossils, were also spiderlike in appearance, Garwood said, but had a long, tail - like structure called the flagellum that disappeared before I. brasieri branched off the family tree.