Sentences with phrase «gills even»

For example, certain amphibians retain fishlike gills even when fully mature and past their water - inhabiting period.

The animal's greatest advantage seems to lie in the ability of its haemocyanin to take up oxygen from water passing over its gills even when the concentration of oxygen is very low.

Not exact matches

Some sharks must constantly keep moving, so oxygenated water is always moving over their gills, so even when their sleeping they glide through the water.

The evening I attended, with maybe a third of the 25,000 - seat capacity of Ventas occupied — mainly by tourists armed to the gills with selfie - sticks — five horns got wet with matador blood.

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The swimming pool is a natural place for Oliver Martin, even if he doesn't have fins or gills.

However, even closed systems have their challenges: on 27 October Marine Harvest announced that they had decided to conclude the second growth phase after the fish suffered damage to their gills as a result of poisonous algae and a subsequent outbreak of amoebic gill disease.

This defense mechanism even works against sharks by effectively clogging their gills or choking them.

The collection also includes complete, or nearly complete, skeletons associated with preserved soft tissues such as feathers, fur, skin or even, in some of the salamanders, external gills.

Which is why, even with its two - hour - and -40-minute running time (belay that «Infinity Kidney Stones» joke, it's been made), Infinity War still manages to feel overstuffed, crammed to the gills with characters and locations and events and stakes.

As much as I can see 2014 packed to the gills with films people fell head over heels for, many of those mainstream and even ScreenAnarchy favorites will be vacant from this list, simply because I thought this was a...

Still, when not buffed to the gills and poured into a Mad Men power suit, Hamm looks scaled down to affably human; even the granite jaw aims to please.

At a hair under two hours, Deadpool 2 is a zippy, energizing film that doesn't feel bloated (even as it's stuffed to the gills with all kinds of zingers, cameos, Easter eggs and weirdness).

Even loaded to the gills and topped with that rooftop carrier, it managed about 20 mostly freeway mpg, enough to match its city EPA number.

With wide front air intakes, side gills aft of the front wheels, flared wheel arches, 21 - inch wheels with blue - painted calipers, staggered tires, rear diffuser, quad exhaust ports, a rear decklid spoiler (for the X6 M), and more M logos throughout than we'd even care to count, the high - powered SUVs will be some of the most distinctive looking BMWs on the road.

The sturdy chassis and stalwart V - 8 were a very reassuring combination even when packed to the gills.

Even when loaded to the gills, the Soul Turbo is affordable; ours was kitted out with Apple Car Play / Android Auto, panoramic sunroof, Harmon / Kardon audio system, and navigation, and still came in a tick above $ 27,000.

But historically even though the earlier Elantra was priced lower and loaded to the gills, it was the Corolla which topped the charts month after month.

Positioned at the extremities of each corner of the car (which is about 120 mm shorter in wheelbase but 200 mm shorter overall than the M4, giving the M2 an even meaner stance), they're wrapped by beefier, bespoke quarter guards featuring M «gills» up front.

Every day, sometimes even three times a day, the nameless man in that story visits the Jardin des Plantes to stare at the strange little animals in their cramped aquarium, at their translucent milky bodies and delicate lizard's tails, their pink, flat, triangular Aztec faces and tiny feet with nearly humanlike fingers, the odd reddish sprigs that sprout from their gills, the golden glow of their eyes, the way they hardly ever move, only now and then twitching their gills, or abruptly swimming with a single undulation of their bodies.

Threats made by water pollution, plastics and debris in the ocean, gill net entanglement, oil spills, overharvesting of fisheries, toxins, and pesticides affect even isolated areas like Point Bennett.

We've struggled collectively as a team to muster even a smidgen of enthusiasm for Driveclub after a PR omnishambles and countless delays, especially given that the racing genre is packed to the gills this year and Evolution are facing staunch competition from the likes of Forza Horizon 2 and The Crew.

In common usage, the term «mushroom» can refer to nearly any fungal fruit, even if it does not fit the cap - gill - stem paradigm.