Sentences with phrase «like snouts»

Northern elephant seals, the world's second largest type of seal, are named for the males» proboscis - like snouts; mature males, which can grow to 16 feet long and weigh up to 2,268 kilos, inflate their snouts to make rumbling bellows during the spring mating season).

She even reminded readers that the experiments creating dinosaur - like snouts on chicken embryos have not led to walking dino - chickens.

Major findings also resolve an evolutionary mystery surrounding softshell turtles — a bizarre group of scale-less turtles with snorkel - like snouts.

Most of them looked a little bit like today's dolphins — streamlined bodies, long beak - like snouts, and powerful tail fins.

These tactics helped the assassins fatally stab their dagger - like snouts into four times as many spiders as when the fans were off.

«You misunderstood that statement... that does not mean that God is like a human...» God has forty - seven dangling organs and a giant dragon - like snout?

One afternoon a member of the team spotted what looked like the snout of a flatheaded fish sticking out of a cliff.

I doubt whether this car can break up the series although I like the snout quite well.

Their pug - like snout, round head and lively colors give them a distinct and attention - grabbing appearance.

The anterior of the caterpillar appears to have the shape of a trunk - like snout.

Not exact matches

If a leader uninvited roots around in your personal life like a pig for truffles, kick him in the snout.

(6:6 - 11) Like a gold ring in a swine's snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.

Proverbs 11:22 says, «Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion,» so I asked Flora to focus her lesson on gentleness and discretion, and she totally rose to the occasion.

The shape of the creature's 36 - centimeter (1.2 - foot) snout, which points straight forward rather than slightly downward like today's river dolphins, suggests the mammal spent most of its time at sea and likely fed on fish, the scientists say.

Sawfishes — shark - like creatures with a lethal snout — are the most endangered of all sea fish, but can we get to know them before they go under?

Paleontologist John Kappelman of the University of Texas at Austin is finding the answer in northern Ethiopia, where he recently excavated the remains of five new elephant relatives (including the tusks seen here), huge rodent like hyraxes, and a late Arsinoitherium, a seven - foot - tall rhino - shaped beast that sported a pair of enormous conical horns on its snout.

The multidisciplinary team's research suggests that a mammal - like mobile snout evolved around 240 - 246 million years ago with the appearance of a group of therapsids called Prozostrodontia, which are direct ancestors of mammals.

The authors speculate that Arktocara may have socialized in pods, like today's oceanic dolphins, while possessing a much longer snout, like its closest living relative in the freshwater rivers of South Asia.

Today, even upper - latitude, «wolfish» varieties like huskies have shorter, wider snouts, and shorter braincases, than wolves — traits typical of domestication syndrome.

It has a short snout (its species name even means «small skull»), and instead of a tail with triangular flukes (think of a fish's tail - fins), it had a long, whip - like tail without big fins at the end.

Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, we have various bits of Timurlengia's skeleton, including part of the snout and jaws, some teeth, various vertebrae of the neck, back and tail, and fragments of the hands and feet.

It probably looked like a long - snouted sea lion, with flipperlike limbs and a long, muscular body.

Its snout was flattened, just like in modern mysticetes.

The trout snout lit up the computer screen, showing that the particles were polarized, much like a bar magnet.

It looked like a squirrel with a long snout instead of a short one, the team reports, with curved, horny claws and flexible ankle and wrist joints typical of modern climbing mammals like squirrels and monkeys.

But Evans and his team found that the snouts also cut through water without creating vibrations — just like wind turbine blades through air (Journal of Fish Biology, doi.org/b43g).

Early this past year, they showed Fowler's team a small shark with beady black eyes and a blunt snout — it looked exactly like the museum specimen.

Suggesting a human are the modestly sized lower face, a short snout like an early Homo from a couple of million years ago, and petite canines that fit snugly against the incisors, just as they do today.

The longnose gar is an elongated fish with a long, thin snout full of needle - like teeth perfectly suited for catching prey.

In general, they look like large dolphins with fat bodies and long snouts.

Predators with long snouts, short sprawling limbs and flattened heads such as temnospondyls, like Amphibiamus (above) appeared.

Flash forward twenty years from the present and the long human - dog truce (the «Age of Obedience») has broken down due to lingering human prejudice and the spread of «snout fever,» a rabies - like disease that gives Mayor Kobayashi (Kunichi Nomura) an excuse to deport all dogs to an uninhabited island trash heap.

Tusk doesn't cram your snout in gruesomeness like The Human Centipede did; its big reveal to effects ace Robert Kurtzman's wondrous synthetic transformation of Wallace is a laugh, less so Wallace's unintelligible shrieking.

His youngest, Claire, 4, draws on a worksheet while his oldest, Abigail, 7, pulls math problems written on strips of paper out of an old Kleenex box, decorated like a piggy bank with a pink snout on one end and a curly - cue tail on the other, and adds the numbers as fast as she can.

There's a distinct retro vibe to the Bullet's appearance, with strong nods to models like the 404 and 405 of the 1950s, which also featured the Bullet's small, snout - like grille flanked by round headlights.

It was a late - model diesel pulled along by a pair of thin front tires, and its squinty snout meant it looked more like a mole than the box - flared -LSB-...]

This two - door sports coupe displays a menacing, jet - fighter - like appearance, with a protruding snout flanked by huge air intakes built into the rear fenders.

Sure, it has a snout like a little SUV, but it drives like a car with the storage capacity of a van and room for six adults comfortably and seven, possibly.

The LeBaron models had a flatter snout, and lost the slightly pointed prow like bumper and grill.

With something like this beneath its stubby snout, the 500L could make a quirkily capable companion to its cuter little sister.

The V6 oiler doesn't quite feel like it has 700 Newtons under its taut snout.

The boomerang - like headlamps, vertical LED fog lamps and a snout - like front bumper can best be called futuristic by all standards.

I saw another one coming and I took my hand from Pablo's fizzing snout and reached for the steering wheel and Mom slapped my hand away just as the tire hit the hole hard and I bounced sideways and cracked my head on the half - open window and Pablo flipped over onto his hind legs like he was doing a wheelie then opened his mouth and did what I said he'd do all over the front of the radio.

Like other Bulldogs the Frenchie is brachiocephalic, meaning it has a pushed in snout.

As you will know, dogs like the Boxer, Pug, Shar Pei, Dogue de Bordeaux or English Bulldog - among other breeds - have a different snout, shorter and smaller.

And some dogs, like Boston terriers, bulldogs, and pugs, are prone to heavier breathing than other dogs because of their short snouts.

Many designer dog breeds are crossed to reduce their size or correct other appearance characteristics that are believed to be unwelcome or unhealthy for the dog (like a squished snout).

For example, small dogs (like toy breeds and dogs with short snouts) typically need dental care earlier than large dogs.

I can see it in her snout, ears and intelligence, but otherwise, she looks nothing like the breed beyond the fact that there are black German shepherds out there.

Last year Izzy was also diagnosed with diabetes and like many brachycephalic dogs (dogs with short snouts) she has also developed respiratory problems, including a collapsed trachea.