Sentences with phrase «molted skin»

Together with still images and a skin biopsy, the researchers conclude that these bowhead whales use rocks to rub away sloughing and molting skin, they report today in PLOS ONE.

A vine - like snake entangles itself in a steel armature, molting its skin of plastic netting to reveal a new body of delicate lace within.

Not exact matches

The Marlins will get weird because they are Winter Meeting cicadas, on an irregularly regular schedule, burrowed beneath the earth, ready to spring forth and pepper the Winter Meetings with nonsense and molted cicada skin.

It can cause scabs, nodules, abnormal molting, ulcers and other disfiguring changes to snake skin.

Whereas the beluga, the narwhal's nearest relative, is known to enter warmer estuarine waters in the summer to molt, this skin - renewal process had never been scientifically documented for narwhal, in part because no scientist has ever spent sufficient time in remote Arctic locations to record such an event.

The larvae, which hatch in 3 - 10 days, move about on the skin, molt into a «nymphal» stage, and then mature into adult mites.

Ralph Fiennes» snakeheaded Voldemort — his skin beginning to molt — is more loathsome than ever.

In the thin light his new body looks ridiculously narrow and soft, its skin beneath a pelt of hair as pale and shriveled as a molting nymph's.

The tool is soft enough to be used every day without damaging your pet's skin, keeping his coat healthy and shiny while also reducing the amount of molted hair that shows up in your home.

Yorkshire Terriers do not molt, and this can cause problems with the health of their skin and coat.

The eggs hatch in three to 10 days, producing a larvae that in turn move about on the skin surface, eventually molting into a nymphal stage and finally into an adult.

After infection, the third - stage larval heartworms (L3) deposited by the mosquito grow for a week or two and molt to the fourth larval stage (L4) under the skin at the site of the mosquito bite.

Female mites lays eggs deep in the skin, while the larvae hatched from eggs grows as a nymph and then molts into an adult.

The eggs hatch in 3 - 10 days producing a larvae which, in turn, move about on the skin surface eventually molting into a «nymphal» stage and finally into an adult.

Those that stay in the burrows and molt into adults survive, while those that crawl to the dog's skin surface die.

They burrow into the skin and molt from L3 to L4 larvae between 1 and 12 days after the dog is infected.

They molt into adults, which then mate and deposit more eggs in the skin.

The pups that are left shed their black skin and are left with a shiny new coat (based on the color of the cute ones above, it looks like we saw some that had already molted).

Once a year, elephant seals go through a process called molting where they shed the outer layer of hair and skin.

[4] Both adult and juvenile elephant seals are bar - skinned [discuss] and black before molting.

Elephant seals molt each year between April and August, shedding not only their hair but also the upper layer of their skin as well.

When an animal molts, it sheds its hard outer skin or shell and replaces it with a new one, says Murphy, from the McGowan Institute.