Sentences with phrase «beak as»

So occasionally you will see this flaking and scaling of the beak as this renewal process continues.

Crack and chip on beak as photographed.

Alex Thiery, a PhD student at the University of Sheffield who contributed to the study said: «We are interested in the developmental origin of the pufferfish beak as it presents a special opportunity to understand how evolutionary novelty can arise in vertebrates more generally.

Clearly, there are neural circuits in the visual pathways of the chick's brain that are specialized to detect the red spot on a beak as soon as the chick hatches.

22 First by a Beak As if to prove once and for all that betting is for the birds, a pigeon wins at New Orleans» Fair Grounds

The birds use their beaks as tools to crack open the hard and woody outer coverings of seeds, pry insects from twigs, and sip nectar from cactus flowers.

The Grants have shown «evolution in action» as generations of finches living on the various islands respond to dry or wet conditions bye changing the shape and function of their beaks as respond to drought or normal conditions.

As the dolphins fished, the gulls circled overhead, many of them with herring in their beaks as well.

Not exact matches

It felt a little awkward at first, but as I moved my fingers across those painful words, folding them into one anther to make wings, then a neck, then a crooked little beak, healing tears fell, and I let my fingers pray.

I think scientist see evidence from Micro greatest example the Darwin's birds beaks and claim it as macro which would be that birds could eventually create a new species.

There was such a reaching in his eager beak and one lifted foot and the forward tilt of his body, Ken felt as if it dragged him in too.

Evolutionists can harp all they want about creationism, but until they can actually do more than point to bird beaks and peppered moths and such as evidence all the skeptics are not going to go away.

lol) at one point it existed as a pig snout and a chicken beak (at east the Dog portion).

We see paws turned into pincers, paws equipped with hooves for running, burrowing paws and muzzles, winged paws, beaks, tusks and so on — innumerable adaptations giving birth to as many phyla, and each ending in a blind - alley of specialization.

Among his strongest points is that observations that demonstrate gradual evolutionary changes in specific characteristics (beak shape of finches, color of forest moths, for instance) do not establish how gradual changes could bring about major evolutionary transitions that require concerted functioning of many specialized organs — such as the change from arboreal mammals to night - flying bats, or the origin of life.

And because the underlying commitment is philosophical, the flimsiest facts are counted as evidence - as when the president of the National Academy of Sciences recently published an article arguing that evolution is confirmed by differences in the size of finch beaks, as though the sprawling evolutionary drama from biochemicals to the human brain could rest on instances of trivial, limited variation.

To insist upon Bhuddism as being the exception, you fall into the trap, and are caught on our beaks and claws!

For what a presence he was, that snow - white fisherman With the long golden beak and the black stick legs, Whether preening his wind - riffled feathers As he stood on his bright - orange water temple (That pi - shaped torii that floated like a spirit), Or flapping prehistorically across the pond To stalk and stab in the dark water Plucking with dagger bill a twitching minnow.

Buried in each is the beak of a vulture or the jaw of a wild boar, explicit reminders that the Goddess is death - giver as well, as source of life.

I also sprinkled a bit of sugar over mine, as Cello has a big sweet tooth, or should I say beak!

Do not over cook as the zucchini will beak.

Woolworths has already identified semi-prepared meals as a growth opportunity, entering into a joint venture with food company Beak & Johnson and opening a fresh meals plant in Sydney's west.

To attach the beak (folded in half square sequin) we used short craft pin and to glue the glitter pompoms onto the eggs all clear all purpose adhesive, such as Boostik or UHU, seemed to be working the best.

The FPR1 Fresh Produce version, ideal for products such as potatoes and oranges, features a urethane - coated dispersion feeder table, 7 litre pool hoppers, 9 litre double opening reinforced weigh hoppers with silicon liners, anti-crush pipe, a 42 degree discharge chute, and an 18 litre pneumatic - beak timing hopper with urethane coated hopper gate, all of which ensure a fast, smooth and gentle passage of product throughout the weigher.

While Germany has their way in events like cross country skiing and the luge, USA dominates snowboarding and downhill skiing, whilst wetting the beak a bit in various other events such as speed skating and figure skating.

Glue the orange beak onto the face of the turkey over the red cardstock wattle with tacky glue using the above photo as a placement guide.

Adorned with wings along with Falcon beak, your wild one can enjoy being a falcon as well as staying warm and comfortable.

Make an upside down heart for the wattle (or the gobble gobble, as some kids refer to it), and draw the beak however you see fit.

Once the paint had dried, I taped two handprints to the plate as wings, drew on feet and a beak (or you could use card cut to shape), stuck on googly eyes, and added a few feathers at the top of the head.

Then I gave my 2 year old son the baby swan and he was just as excited and immediately put the swan's beak in his mouth - such a boy!!

How about every person educate themselves about the Animal Food Industry and watch movies like Food Inc., and Earthlings, so the general public can be educated as to how toxic animal products are, how terrible they are treated before their throats are slashed, beaks cut off, testicles removed without anesthesia, etc..

Its exact causes are still uncertain, but its growth may be spurred by the irritation created by indigestible elements in the foods eaten by the whales, such as the beaks of cuttlefish, which are almost invariably found in ambergris.

For decades, researchers thought iron - rich cells in birds» beaks acted as microscopic compasses (SN: 5/19/12, p. 8).

The new find helps shed light on the evolution of beaked whales as well as their competition: Soon after M. gregarius swam the region's seas, dolphins appeared on the scene, and their success in shallow coastal waters (where they now dominate), may have driven ziphiids to abandon foraging in surface waters.

Carnivorous species died as their food sources did, but those dinosaurs with toothless beaks could feast on fallen seeds long after plants died.

«The bird food that the blackcaps rely upon in Britain is powdered, so there is no longer selection for the broad beaks that allow the bird to eat large fruits such as olives on the Iberian Peninsula,» says Schaefer.

As the seed changed and evolved in size and hardness in the environment, the beak also has to evolve in order to face that challenge.

Along the way, we meet creatures such as the Bornean bristlehead, a single - species family that inhabits the high canopy in deep rainforest; the helmet - billed vanga, with a beak that looks like it is made from blue plastic; and Odontopteryx, which, cruising Miocene seas on wings spanning up to 5 metres, was one of the largest flying birds ever.

The scientists heated chicken embryos to 40 ° to 41 ° Celsius for an hour and compared them with embryos incubated at a standard laboratory temperature of 37 ° C. Those chicks exposed to a high «fever» developed craniofacial defects, such as a shorter upper beak, and cardiovascular defects.

He sneaks around the side of the bower, waving a brightly colored item such as a shell or a bit of plastic in his beak in hopes of holding her interest.

On the other side of the divide, «bird - hipped» ornithischians included beaked plant - eaters such as Triceratops.

Endler's hunch is that as the male darts around waving a trinket in his beak, the bauble seems to change size against the backdrop.

Adaptationism certainly appears to hold true in microevolution — small - scale evolutionary change within species, such as changes in beak shape in Galapagos finches in response to available food sources.

Working with DNA samples collected by the Grants, researchers at Uppsala identified the gene that influences beak shape by comparing the genomes of 120 birds, all members of the 15 species known as «Darwin's finches.»

Within a species, when some individuals have a trait that aids their survival — such as a blunt beak that allows them to crack open tough seed coverings — they will pass on the genes for that trait to their offspring, whereas individuals with pointed beaks will have died.

Two species of finch in the Galápagos Islands diverged in beak shape as they adapted to different food sources.

When a rooster's beak is fully open, as it is when crowing, a quarter of the ear canal completely closes and soft tissue covers 50 % of the eardrum, the team reports in a paper in press at Zoology.

They spotted a stretch of DNA that looked different in species with blunt beaks, such as the large ground finch (Geospiza magnirostris), versus species with pointed beaks, such as the large cactus finch (G. conirostris).

Deep - diving species, such as sperm and beaked whales often get into trouble if they stray off - course and find themselves in waters where there is little food for them.

And their chicks hatch with these very sharp hooks at the tips of their beak, which they use to stab the host young to death as soon as they hatch.»