Sentences with phrase «in turtle shells»

«Bone broth goes way back to the Stone Age, when they were actually cooking broth in turtle shells and in skins over the fire.

Lakitu, the yellow guy in a turtle shell who controls the tracks and calls the shots, owns all of the race tracks in Super Mario Kart.

Not exact matches

Turtles have a cool shell in which they can hide if need be.

The shell of the turtle can be adjusted to glow in three different colors - blue, green or amber.

This turtle has a soft, cuddly body and a hard shell that has a built - in nightlight, which emits a variety of stunning night sky constellations into the room.

I dare anyone not to crack a smile at this little girl in pigtails galloping down the road wearing her turtle - shell backpack.

In the top photo below, Leonardo Barolo, a biology student at the University of São Paulo, shows insects and a turtle shell to the public.

Its ribs were short and wide as in modern turtles, but the bony plates were absent — hinting that the ribs rather than the skin drove the evolution of the shell.

The researchers identified more than 1000 olfactory receptors in the soft - shell turtle, which is one of the largest numbers ever to be found in a non-mammalian vertebrate.

Turtles are often described as evolutionary monsters, with a unique body plan and a shell that is considered to be one of the most intriguing structures in the animal kingdom.

As the turtles grew, those isotopes left deposits in the shells» thick keratin, the same stuff our fingernails are made of.

A team of scientists in Hawaii has developed a way to chart the chronology of a turtle's life using the growth lines in its shell, much like the life span of a giant sequoia might be measured in tree rings.

The behaviour of Chinese soft - shelled turtle embryos (Pelodiscus sinensis) mimics that of adult reptiles basking in the sun to warm their blood.

«The turtle shell is a complex structure whose initial transformations started over 260 million years ago in the Permian period,» says Tyler Lyson of Yale University and the Smithsonian.

Head of the study Tyler Lyson from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Colorado, adds that, «Based on what we know today, solid shells did not appear in fossil stem turtles until 50 million years after Eunotosaurus.»

They plan to examine the novel respiratory system in turtles and see how it evolved in conjunction with the evolution of the turtle's shell.

The skeleton of the South African reptile Eunotosaurus africanus fills a gap in the early evolution of turtles and their enigmatic shell.

«Scientists discover that turtles began living in shells much earlier than once thought.»

Because turtles have locked their ribs up into the iconic turtle shell, they can no longer use their ribs to breathe as in most other animals and instead have developed a unique abdominal muscle based system.

«It is clear that this novel lung ventilation mechanism evolved in tandem with the origin of the turtle shell,» he says.

The organization found that eBay sites in six countries were selling endangered wildlife products, including elephant ivory and hides, turtle shells, and skins from leopards, cheetahs, ocelots, lizards and crocodiles; two thirds of all endangered species products listed on eBay had U.S. sellers.

Veterinarians in Israel restored the female turtle's mobility by attaching a set of wheels to the underside of her shell.

The direct take of turtles has continued legally in many regions and countries, often for traditional coastal communities to support themselves or small - scale fisheries supplying local markets with meat, and sometimes shell.

The animals have a turtle - specific herpesvirus that causes fibropapillomatosis — a condition in which disfiguring tumours grow on the eyes, flippers, tail, shell or internal organs.

In later, full - shelled species of turtles, those ribs are even wider and have fused with each other and certain bones in the shoulder girdle to form a carapace, or upper shelIn later, full - shelled species of turtles, those ribs are even wider and have fused with each other and certain bones in the shoulder girdle to form a carapace, or upper shelin the shoulder girdle to form a carapace, or upper shell.

The findings are «a very important contribution in addressing who turtles are related to, as well as the evolutionary origin of the turtle shell,» says Tyler Lyson, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science who was not involved with the study.

The first full - shelled turtles show up in the fossil record about 205 million years ago.

These free - floating bones developed within the tissue of the underbelly, Sues says; in more evolved species of turtles, these gastralia broaden and fuse to form a plastron, or lower shell.

Consider the case of Pigface, a Nile soft - shelled turtle who spent nearly his entire life alone in an enclosure at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C..

The researchers observed round organelles in the fossil that could be melanosomes, pigment - containing structures in the skin (or epidermis) that give turtle shells their dark color.

When Chinese soft - shelled turtles (Pelodiscus sinensis) need to relieve themselves, they just open wide, according to a study published online today in The Journal of Experimental Biology.

The fossilized turtle shells and bones come from two sites near the community of Villa de Leyva in Colombia.

Cadena and his colleague examined the almost complete skeleton, four additional skulls and two partially preserved shells, and they placed the fossils in the turtle group Chelonioidea, based on various morphological characteristics.

In the study, the working group led by Leopold Eckhart investigated the genes responsible for the skin layers of the shell of the European terrapin and a North American species of turtle, in order to compare them with the genes of human skiIn the study, the working group led by Leopold Eckhart investigated the genes responsible for the skin layers of the shell of the European terrapin and a North American species of turtle, in order to compare them with the genes of human skiin order to compare them with the genes of human skin.

Finally, in seven of the nine pairs, the turtles are in direct contact along the edge of their shells just above their tails — and in two of those pairs, the male's tail wraps below the female's shell in mating position.

The authors found that this transition proceeded slowly and began with a broadening of the ribs in a species that existed 50 million years before the first fully shelled turtle.

Twenty million years older than the oldest known fossil of a direct turtle ancestor, Eunotosaurus africanus has broadened ribs inside its body and elongated vertebrae in its spine compared with other reptiles, but those bones aren't fully fused to form an external shell as is the case in modern turtles.

To determine the structural and chemical composition of the soft tissues Lindgren collected and see if the fossil sea turtle did have a dark colored shell, the researchers subjected the sample to a selection of high - resolution analytical techniques, including field emission gun scanning electron microscopy (FEG - SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), in situ immunohistochemistry, time - of - flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF - SIMS), and infrared (IR) microspectroscopy.

To Rieppel and his colleagues, Odontochelys represents an early stage of turtle history during which they were evolving their shells while living in water.

Today's soft - shelled turtles, for example, have lost much of the bones in their armor.

The addition of the fossil to existing data on ancient turtles solidifies the theory that changes to the ribs and vertebrae were early steps in shell evolution and occurred during the Permian geological period, when early mammal, bird, and crocodile relatives were also diversifying.

The benefits of walking around with a built - in coat of armor are clear, but for evolutionary biologists, understanding how and when the turtle shell evolved has been a slow and steady race.

Turtles are the only beasts in the animal kingdom that don hard outer shells formed from bone during embryonic development, and a scarcity of ancient turtle fossils has made it difficult to track the evolution of this unique trait.

Traditional healers in parts of Asia use dried turtle shell to treat fever and malaria.

Vitek, who began the study as a master's student at the University of Texas at Austin, compared 435 shells of modern eastern box turtles and 57 shells of fossil specimens, analyzing changes in location, shape, size and sex.

Finally, the human acquires updated visual feedback from the camera mounted on the shell and in this way continues to remotely navigate the turtle's trajectory.

A turtle fossil pulled out of the ground by an 8 - year - old boy in South Africa helped scientists learn more about the early uses and evolution of the turtle shell.

Everyone else should have more fun launching turtle shells at each other or speeding through topsy - turvy tracks in futuristic hover cars.

«Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Visual History» takes us through the entire history of these heroes in a half shell.

In one remarkable scene, they catch a turtle only to discover that someone has written on its shell.