Sentences with phrase «centimeters long»

The local Slow Food group and its allies, including Greenpeace Mediterranean, collected pledges from chefs, fish sellers, and shoppers to not buy, sell, or eat lüfer less than 24 centimeters long, and organized a major letter - writing campaign to the Ministry of Agriculture, which agreed in September to increase the minimum catch size to 20 centimeters.

The Chinese ink and watercolor illustration, which features Astro Boy in a fight, is 35 centimeters long by 25 centimeters wide.

Aibo is a white plastic puppy about 30 centimeters long with flapping black ears and a cute little wagging tail.

An adult Airedale terrier should be around 58 centimeters long, which is much more then a dog originally bred to work in burrows needs to be.

Krill are tiny crustaceans, a bit like shrimp but smaller, at just one to six centimeters long.

The majority of the clitoris is internal and extends down on each side and is estimated to be about 8 to 10 centimeters long and spans each side of the vaginal opening.

These tubes are quite small, the brief states — about 11 centimeters long — so even small dogs could easily ingest their entire contents.

The snails in question are of the giant African land snail species Achatina fulica, which can grow shells up to 20 centimeters long.

Scientists have only recently discovered sponge - inhabiting shrimp because many of these crustaceans, usually no more than 1.5 centimeters long, rarely leave the twisting tunnels built into sponges.

These tiny dolphins, less than 115 centimeters long, died either before birth or soon after, perhaps from their mother's exposure to cold temperatures or to the oil released from the Macondo well for 87 days in the spring of 2010 when these babies were conceived.

The result, the researchers report today in Optics Express, is that the grooves, about 2 centimeters long and 100 microns wide, turned ordinary chips positively hydrophilic.

For their experiments, the researchers used twigs around 30 centimeters long from 36 different trees and shrubs, which they exposed to different temperature and light conditions in climate chambers.

When alive, the creature was probably about 40 centimeters long — about the size of a large lizard — and weighed about 2 kilograms.

It is 11 centimeters long and 6.5 centimeters wide, six millimeters thick, weighing 12 grams and, when coated, can reaches only 80 grams.

For its size — 23 centimeters long and 1 kilogram in weight — it may be a record - holder among other robo - quadrupeds, its developers say, attaining speeds seven times its body length per second.

Wurden's plasma - holding apparatus is a quartz tube, 40 centimeters in diameter and 150 centimeters long, mounted on a table and partially wrapped in the aluminum coils of an electromagnet.

Although the bugbot's body rests just 1 centimeter above the water's surface and its legs are just 5 centimeters long, it can leap to a height of more than 14 centimeters, the researchers note.

That's what researchers are saying after they trained four Pacific parrotlets (Forpus coelestis)-- small, pastel - colored parrots about 13 centimeters long — to jump and fly for millet seed rewards.

The fossil in question is a 26 - centimeter - long partial skull of a fierce predator, as evidenced by three parallel rows of sharp teeth up to 2 centimeters long along the jaw margins, as well as several smaller teeth inside the mouth.

It's 23 centimeters long — about the length of a tissue box — with four contracting segments, and those squishy legs.

In the second study in Science, researchers from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, created a chip 1 to 2 centimeters long in which a 1 millimeter - wide channel, coated with human lung cells on the inside and overlaid with human blood capillaries on the outside, mimicked the air sacs, or alveoli, of the lungs.

The bots weigh just 68 milligrams and have bodies that are 2 centimeters long and legs 5 centimeters long.

But these new fossils, which range from a few centimeters to 30 centimeters long, had a tiny, unsegmented brain, akin to what's seen in modern velvet worms, researchers report today in Nature Communications.

P. rosinae adults likely measured about 20 centimeters long, with half of that being a long, whiplike tail.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, demonstrated that whereas cords less than 46 centimeters long will almost never tangle, any cord longer than 150 centimeters will have at least a 50 % chance of spontaneously knotting up.

To bring movement back to Rob Summers» paralyzed lower body, scientists and doctors surgically implanted a package of 16 small electrodes, just a few centimeters long, above the protective membrane layers of his spinal cord.

The fossil shows a juvenile Ichthyosaurus communis, measuring just 70 centimeters long, making it the smallest example of the animal to date.

The bigeye catalufa grows to 30 centimeters long and inhabits deeper rocky reefs off Cocos Island.

Another possibility could be using the penetrator on the MUPUS instrument — a hollow rod 35 centimeters long that could be pressed into the soil.

Materials • Rubbing alcohol (70 percent isopropyl alcohol) • Measuring spoons • Small bowl • Three long strands of human hair (about 20 centimeters long) • Cotton swabs • Measuring tape or ruler • Thin, flat piece of plastic that can easily be cut (about 8.0 cm long and 8.0 cm wide), such as from the lid of a disposable deli container • Scissors (strong enough to cut the plastic piece) • Dime • Tape • Two small nails • Glue • Scrap piece of wood or flat Styrofoam (about 25 cm long and 10 cm wide) • Hammer • Pencil or pen • Hair dryer • Plastic box that can be sealed and is large enough to fit the wood or Styrofoam piece inside of it • Wet sponge or small towel (either paper or cloth) Preparation • Make a solution of 25 percent rubbing alcohol and 75 percent water by mixing one tablespoon of water with one teaspoon of rubbing alcohol in a small bowl.

And they can be several centimeters long.

But when the team washed off the PVA, the nanotube fibers were only about 20 centimeters long.

Rich suspects that the animal would have been only about 8.5 centimeters long and a «generalized insectivore.»

The first sets of teeth belonged to eel - like swimmers that lived some 525 million years ago and ranged from four to 40 centimeters long.

A small metallic strip just centimeters long can be easily excited by a flow along its length, in a manner analogous to a flapping flag.

The 30 or so bits of bone, none more than 7 centimeters long, have suffered much since they were entombed: Ice sheets have scoured Ellesmere Island several times in the past few million years, and today's freeze - thaw cycles continue to splinter fossils into ever - smaller fragments, Rybczynski says.

The tiny fossil, just a few centimeters long, is giving paleontologists a rare window into the early development of a group of extinct birds called Enantiornithes, researchers report March 5 in Nature Communications.

Biologist Chris Dallmann works with stick insects, which are up to eight centimeters long.

Kourosh Kalantar - Zadeh, an engineer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia, and his colleagues built plastic capsules about 2.5 centimeters long — about as long as a Jolly Rancher hard candy — that sniff out carbon dioxide, hydrogen and oxygen gas molecules in the gut.

It's 3.2 centimeters long and was probably was part of a middle finger.

Researchers analyzed 110 pottery fragments (example above; scale bar is 5 centimeters long) unearthed at two sites in what is now southwestern Libya that were occupied, according to previous studies, between 8400 and 10,200 years ago.

The robot, which is 47 centimeters long, swam at speeds of half a body length per second.

These lanky amphipods can grow up to about 5 centimeters long and are found in the Sea of Japan.

This device, only 2 centimeters long, contains sixteen chambers.

Some of the more monstrous shipworms found, which bore into everything from wooden pilings to docks, had grown to about 50 centimeters long.

Each arm ended in two sharp claws about 10 centimeters long.

Nicknamed «tree lobsters,» the dark - brown crawlers are nocturnal, flightless creatures that can grow up to 15 centimeters long.

What flashed on the screen was a spray of black grains, released from a pressurized tube like water from a fire hose, with little bursts of electricity — veins of white just centimeters long.

It relies on a pair of concentric cylindrical shells a few centimeters long.

S. acuminata, which grew up to 40 centimeters long, belonged to a diverse group of predators known as eurypterids, whose oldest known species appeared about 467 million years ago.