Sentences with phrase «like shark teeth»

«The first the fracture was only a hairline, the second time it was already cracked like shark teeth!»

The men planned to meet in the desolate rainforest of Central Africa, amid towering 150 - foot trees and swarms of small butterflies clustered like shark teeth on the seemingly endless red clay road.

If you look at the edge of paper under a microscope you'll see it's jagged, sort of like shark teeth.

Not exact matches

«Orthacanthus was a three - metre - long xenacanth shark with a dorsal spine, an eel - like body, and tricusped teeth,» he said.

Charged by the grand duke withdissecting for the court the head of a recently captured great white shark, Steno realised the evident truth of what a few others had already postulated, namely that the «tongue stones» found in plenty in places like Malta were indeed identical with sharks» own teeth.

This specimen provides the first evidence that early sharks evolved a complex, predatory jaw - and - tooth structure like that of their modern descendants.

This research has shown that these early human - like people were very clever about how they opened these large freshwater mussels; they drilled a hole through the shell using a sharp object, possibly a shark's tooth, exactly at the point where the muscle is attached that keeps the shell closed.

As such, it provides the first real glimpse into what baleen whales were like before they evolved their feeding filters.Measuring about 9 to 11 feet long, the specimen was the size of a bottlenose dolphin, with huge eyes that took up a quarter of its head.Instead of echolocating, it most likely depended on keen underwater vision and sharp hearing to track fish and small sharks, which it would then tear apart and shred with its 1.4 - inch - long serrated teeth.

An ancient fish that sported a saw blade - like whorl of serrated teeth — and was long presumed to be a member of the shark family — actually belonged to a different but closely related group, a new study suggests.

We show that, unlike most fish, the denticle scales of sharks and skate develop from neural crest cells, just like teeth.

«Primitive scales were much more tooth - like in structure, but have been retained in only a few living lineages, including that of cartilaginous fishes such as skates and sharks.

«The sharks and skate have lost the bony under - layer, while most fish have lost the tooth - like dentine outer layer.

«Orthacanthus was a three - metre - long xenacanth shark with a dorsal spine, an eel - like body, and tricusped teeth,» he said.

It doesn't seem all that important when compared to the rainbow fungi peppering the trees in Area X, like Seussian tumors, or the attacking alligator with rows of teeth like a shark, or the churning guts revealed in a vivisected stomach, spinning impossibly like a coiled snake trying to escape.

On the other end of the spectrum are the terrifying creatures inhabiting the place, from a giant albino alligator, with teeth that appear more shark - like, and a sort of plant that seems to have erupted from a human body.

Though the price starts at $ 35,189, you are required to buy a couple of packages that add various spoilers, wheel locks, more gauges, an upgraded shift knob and emergency brake handle, plus some too - trendy «vortex generators» that look like shark's teeth set just above the rear window.

He looks like a large garden snail, until he opens his jaws, which are lined with shark teeth.

The practice of shaving dates back to the Stone Age, when things like shark's teeth, porcupine quills and flint knives were commonly used to remove excess hair.

Nipping with shark - like teeth, chomping on shoes and urinating submissively on an expensive carpet seem quite unforgivable deeds.

Pay More Attention to Dental Issues Some creatures, like sharks, can regenerate teeth if they lose them.

That tooth isn't one that moves forward should the rabbit lose the big incisor (rabbits having no relation to sharks whose teeth do move forward to replace lost teeth), but rather probably acts as a sharpening stone for the lower tooth as the rabbit's chewing action is lateral (side to side) rather than vertical (up and down) like rodents.

There are lots of myths about pit bulls: that they have locking jaws, that their bite is harder and stronger than other dogs» bites, that their brains swell and cause them to «go nuts,» that they have an extra row of teeth like sharks, and even that they can unhinge their jaws like snakes!

And don't forget that teething may happen at the very moment his milky teeth are still in)-RRB--RRB- Your puppy will look like a shark, lol)

They can climb trees and like all monitor lizards they are good swimmers Their teeth are laterally compressed with serrated edges, resembling those of flesh - eating sharks.

From sharks like the Mako, Tiger, Hammerhead, Bull, Dusky and Ragged Tooth to schools of reef and pelagic fish, you'll be almost constantly surrounded by swarming fish, manta's and rays.

Fallen stalactites litter the lower ledge of the cave some 50ft (15m) below where stalagmites grow upwards like a set of rotten teeth as if to complete a grotesque subterranean shark's mouth.

Walking into Richard Prince's show, the bonnet of a car greets you, like a shark or a maître d' with perfect American teeth.

The thresher shark is a beautiful animal, with a long, sleek body; rows upon rows of squid - lacerating teeth; and a distinctive, scythe - like tail.