Sentences with phrase «fifth leg»

That's the fifth leg of this carrion table.

Tonia Couch and Sarah Barrow continued their fine form at the Diving World Series with a superb silver medal on the opening day of the fifth leg in Windsor, Canada.

When the kangaroos» fifth leg was discovered, it was thought similar animals — like wallabies and pademelons — wouldn't use their tail in the same way because they were too small to need a fifth leg.

Dawson's work also, for the first time, conclusively establishes that smaller macropods — those Australian animals that look like different sized kangaroos — don't have a fifth leg.

It turned out that animal size wasn't the main predictor of whether the tail acted as a fifth leg or not.

Kangaroos were recently confirmed to use their tail as a fifth leg.

So those macropods that grew big back legs evolved to use their tail to help them crawl on four legs — creating a fifth leg.

They then needed to begin using their tail as a fifth leg to help lift their awkwardly long back legs of the ground when moving at slower speeds.

But that didn't explain all the associations — some wallabies with relatively long hind legs didn't make use of their fifth leg.

The need to hop fast in open habitats seems to have driven the evolution of an odd habit in some of Australia's iconic marsupials, they use their tail as a fifth leg

The agreement, which comes in the context of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region, was signed at the Fifth leg of the World Science Forum series, organized by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in partnership with UNESCO, ICSU, and AAAS.

If you're spending more than $ 1,000 on a sofa, look for one with a fifth leg in the middle.