Sentences with phrase «feathery gills»

Thus, these robust animals — typically six to 10 inches, though they have been reported up to 18 inches — remain forever aquatic, with long, feathery gills and a Zen - like placidity that makes owning a large aquarium of them a balm for the rigors of human life.

Unlike most amphibians, the mud - colored salamander retained its tadpole form into adulthood, breathed through feathery gills jutting out of the sides of its head, and lived only in a handful of lakes in central Mexico.

Although other salamanders metamorphose into terrestrial creatures, axolotls hold on to their feathery gills and stay in the water for their entire lives.

The Cambrian explosion, as it is called, produced arthropods with legs and compound eyes, worms with feathery gills and swift predators that could crush prey in tooth - rimmed jaws.

Pull back the apron of each crab, remove top shell, intestines and feathery gills.

Not exact matches

On one end of the worms are feathery plumes that act as gills to extract oxygen from the water.

Of the aquatic salamanders, axolotls are a Mexican mountain lake denizen with beautiful feathery external gills and beatific personalities.

With those spiral lollipop horns and feathery tuft of gills, this species is typical in color and costume to many of the other 3,000 + known species of nudibranchs.