Sentences with phrase «of centipede»

In «Going the Distance,» Drew Barrymore's character, Erin, and Justin Long's character, Garrett, meet at a bar when he interrupts her game of Centipede.

King acquired enough of that centipede for limited testing, but getting sufficient amounts of venom from other species of centipede has proven to be a challenge.

Animals including the Arthropleura — a nearly 10 - foot - long relative of the centipede — splashed through grass - free, shallow waters, their feet skimming the spongy peat made from decomposing foliage.

The complete absence of eyes is characteristic of this order, geophilomorph, of centipedes.

Husbandry of centipedes is straightforward.

Not exact matches

New York State's political world was turned upside - down this week by the abrupt resignation of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who has been credibly accused of being a meat suit filled with centipedes.

A newly identified toxin in the venom of a tropical centipede helps the arthropod to overpower giant prey in about 30 seconds.

Insight into how this venom overwhelms lab mice could lead to an antidote for people who suffer excruciatingly painful, reportedly even fatal, centipede bites, an international research team reports the week of January 22 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A galaxy without stars seems as nonsensical as a centipede without legs, but last February astronomer Robert Minchin, now at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, reported the first - ever sighting of just such an object.

In recent years our incredibly varied geology has provided the oldest known vascular land plants, evidence of the oldest herbivores, as well as the earliest examples of terrestrial footprints («Did centipedes take the first steps on terra firma?»

These toxins spanned the breadth of the animal kingdom, including ancient venomous groups such as centipedes, scorpions, spiders, coleoids (octopus, cuttlefish and squids) and cnidarians (jellyfish, sea anemones and hydras).

Although venom is common in arthropods such as spiders, scorpions, centipedes and wasps, it has never before been seen in any of the 70,000 known crustaceans, a subgroup of arthropods that includes shrimp and crabs.

In Venomous, molecular biologist Christie Wilcox surveys the animal kingdom's wide array of biochemical warriors, from spiders and snakes to sea urchins and centipedes.

Just like Hades who ruled over the kingdom of shadows, the new centipede dwells among an extraordinary number of pallid cavernicolous animals, some known to science and many yet to be discovered.

In fact, so far the Hades and Persephone centipedes are the only two geophilomorphs that have adapted to live exclusively in caves, thus rightfully bearing the titles of a queen and king of the underworld.

Lurking in the dark vaults of some of the world's deepest caves, the Hades centipede has also had its name picked to pair another underground - dwelling relative named after Persephone, the queen of the underworld.

An international team of scientists has discovered the deepest underground dwelling centipede.

As in the millipedes (which, unlike centipedes, are not venomous), they are highly segmented (15 to 173 segments), but with only one pair of walking legs per segment.

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Certain spiders and centipedes — despite being separated by more than 500 million years — have independently evolved the same type of venom from an insulinlike hormone.

Centipedes are dorso - ventrally flattened, and are among the fastest and most agile of non-flying arthropod predators.

In a recent paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, King detailed how, in mouse models, a peptide from the venom of the Chinese red - headed centipede acted as a more potent painkiller than morphine — without side effects.

But scientists who have conducted the world's first survey of arthropods — creepy crawlies like insects, spiders, mites, and centipedes — in U.S. homes, report otherwise.

(C) A recently discovered species of Mystrium, yet to be named, feeds centipedes to its offspring, then sucks the youngsters» blood for a secondhand meal.

The «great - appendage» arthropods are an early relation of arthropods, which includes spiders, scorpions, centipedes, millipedes, insects and crabs.

To the horror of residents, foot - long centipedes and poisonous snakes invaded the city to escape the eruption.

Their robotic centipede — built through microfabrication techniques similar to those used for making computer chips — is just over an inch long and about a third as wide, weighing less than two - hundredths of an ounce.

The many - segmented body is otherwise reminiscent of myriapods, a group that includes centipedes, millipedes, and their relatives.

Figure 4: Patterns of Hox gene expression have diverged between arthropods and their relatives such as centipedes (top left and top right) and onychophorans (center and bottom left and right).

Comparisons of how genes are used in different animals, such as diverse insects, centipedes, and crustacea, have revealed the primacy of regulatory changes in the generation of morphological diversity.

«Our hypothesis is that maybe it was seeing an unexploited cornucopia of food on land - millipedes, centipedes, spiders and more — that drove evolution to come up with limbs from fins,» says MacIver.

Besides primitive plants, the Rhynie Chert has yielded of algal, fungi, and prokaryotic bacteria fossils as well as a diversity of early terrestrial arthropods such as Myriapods (millipedes and centipedes), Collembola, and Arachnids such as Opiliones (harvestmen), pseudoscorpions and the extinct, spider - like trigonotarbids.

Of course, I still can not stop thinking about that centipede!

Does it help you to know that the centipede was no longer of this world?

Decidedly negative on the film is The Playlist's Jessica Kiang, who describes the structure as a «kind of Human Centipede ass - to - mouth concertina of gruesome misogyny and utter tedium.»

Your mileage will vary depending on how much patience you have for Deadpool's tireless antics and how easily you are entertained by limb - severing, body - battering physical humor, the relentless parade of blue jokes about pranking coworkers with bodily fluids, infant genitalia, and the «Human Centipede» movies, and the spectacle of Reynolds flaming himself over how much «Green Lantern» sucked.

As always, the quality of those films varied widely, taking in films that were among the year's best (including drama 45 Years, 2015's # 2 overall film) and among the year's worst The Human Centipede III, which scored lower than all but one film last year).

Download this Review Read Kevin's review of Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) here.

My base was home to the likes of Brass Armadillo, Dizzy Centipede, Sinister Tiger and Ochre Capybara, for example.

Included in this final batch of flicks the world premiere of director Tom Six's The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence; Retreat starring Cillian Murphy, Thandie Newton and Jamie Bell; Morgan Spurlock's documentary Comic - Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope; and director Jeff Nichols» drama Take Shelter starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain.

Included in this final batch of flicks the world premiere of director Tom Six's The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence; Retreat starring Cillian Murphy, Thandie...

The organizing Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences announced that Asteroids and Centipede designer Ed Logg would be receiving the annual Pioneer Award, while Epic Games cofounder Tim Sweeney would be inducted into the AIAS Hall of Fame.

If you grew up playing Pac - Man, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Centipede and other arcade games, then «Pixels» is probably the movie event of the year for you.

Even after the man's first foray into the horror genre with the flawed but tonally ambitious Red State, I never would have expected the man best known for lewd discussions over pop - culture minutia to take note of The Human Centipede and more or less say, «Hey, let me try.»

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In the wake of The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) being banned in the U.K., Peter Bradshaw wonders if censorship means anything these days.

At heart, Tusk is really little more than a jokey riff on The Human Centipede, its mad - scientist character obsessed with creating not a surgical conga line, but a kind of shrieking man - walrus.

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The last half hour reminded me of The Human Centipede and Hostel in the fact that there are deranged human beings who will do anything to others to satisfy their own needs.

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