Sentences with phrase «like bat wings»

Not exact matches

Also, evolutionary theory does state animals sharing a certain characteristic can possess a similarity without sharing an immediate common ancestor like a bird and bat wing.

When he died he weighed sixty pounds, the paper says, and I go out of my way to drive by the address where his brother locked him in the closet, wondering at the blue door, the flower boxes, wondering where the fury started, how early and how hidden the first bruise awaking like a bat, dark wings....

The stadium smells like a campfire, and the Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race logo (a fish with bat wings, which looks suspiciously like the butt of a rifle) flips around and around on the jumbotron.

The longer - lived animals are also the smarter ones, or the bigger ones, or the ones like birds and bats that evolved adaptations such as wings to make their lives safer.

The compliant wings of a bat - like flapping robot flapping at lower frequencies (7 - 10 Hz vs. 100 - 300 Hz of quadrotors) are inherently safe: because their wings comprise primarily flexible materials and are able to collide with one another, or with obstacles in their environment, with little or no damage.»

Tiny bat - winged dinosaur, Uber to deliver dinner in minutes, chimp - like spines cause slipped discs, and more

Some of these accelerated regions of evolution may impart the recognizable traits we attribute to each species, like the wings of a bat, the massive body size of the elephant and the unique coloring of the thirteen - lined ground squirrel.

«Next, we'd like to explore deconstructing the seemingly complex motion of the bat wing into simpler motions, which is necessary to make a bat - inspired flying robot,» said Viswanath.

As birds swing their wings upward, the feathers separate like window blinds to let air through, which prevents the lift - reducing currents that the bats experienced, the researchers say.

It had long rods extending from its wrists, which apparently supported membranous wings like those of a bat, as seen in this artist's conception.

Fossil records show that their unique limbs could have supported flight, but unlike bat wings or bird wings, they were made of a living membrane reinforced with muscle and tissue, stretched like a sail over a single long bone.

But a newly discovered dinosaur may have developed wings as well — ones like a bat's — at least 160 million years ago.

The sleeves are somewhat bat - wing or butterfly - like.

These sleeves are somewhat bat - wing like and I'm just obsessed with how big they are.

Coming up was a view of Bat Hill, two sheer adjoining cliff faces that look like the wings of a bat; the first of many named limestone peaks or sheer cliff faces (some 300 - meters high) on our boat trip down the Li River.

Their wings are more bat - like and they have white, glowing eyes.

There's a primitive figure of a man with bat's wings, a horse with six heads and a woman crouching like a toad.

The argument that other things kill birds and bats, and that fossil carbon is bad, falls to the ground like a Peregrine Falcon at Ivanpah Solar with its wings burnt, when you ask how effective wind turbines have been in putting coal mines and gas pipelines, and sounding for oil in the Arctic, out of business.

You can even take larger snips out of the wings to make them look a little more bat - like.