Sentences with phrase «of turtle shells»

Then there's the new Koopa shell power - up that arms Mario with the sliding power of turtle shells.

Although not in the hotel itself but in one of the villas, we were not impressed with a collection of turtle shells on display — endangered species should not be decorator items.

Lining the walls are row upon row of wooden drawers filled with the petrified remains of turtle shells, fish bones, dinosaur toes, and the like.

The scientists studied the rib plates, so - calledcostals, of turtle shells and the ribs of various fossil and living vertebrate groups, including mammals, crocodiles and even dinosaurs.

At this location, for instance, Horner and two colleagues have collected lizard skull fragments; shards of turtle shell; fish teeth, scales, and vertebrae; even a handful of dinosaur toe bones.

A Smithsonian scientist and colleagues recently discovered that the beginnings of the turtle shell started 40 million years earlier than previously thought.

«It is clear that this novel lung ventilation mechanism evolved in tandem with the origin of the turtle shell,» he says.

The findings are «a very important contribution in addressing who turtles are related to, as well as the evolutionary origin of the turtle shell,» says Tyler Lyson, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science who was not involved with the study.

A turtle fossil pulled out of the ground by an 8 - year - old boy in South Africa helped scientists learn more about the early uses and evolution of the turtle shell.

Invite children to use tempera paint on the bowl to create the look of a turtle shell.

I'm one of those turtle shell guys.

The rugged design mimics that of a turtle shell which we all know is very tough.

Not exact matches

Toward the end of Chapter 1, narrator Scout Finch (age 5), her brother Jem (age 9) and her next - door neighbor for the summer, Dill Harris (age 6), discuss the ethics of holding a lit match to a turtle, for the sake of getting the turtle to come out of its shell.

Turtles have hard shells too, so a statue (which would of course be of a hard material) makes more sense than using a manatee with its soft flesh.

Just about the only thing that hasn't been added is the Hindu creation myth that the Earth sits on top of the giant elephant that rests on the shell of a enormous turtle.

I utilized the posted pattern however I ended up utilizing 8 pieces for the shell of the turtle which I filled with loose polyfill.

The shell of the turtle can be adjusted to glow in three different colors - blue, green or amber.

Named for the scaly spikes on their shells, alligator snappers are often referred to as the «dinosaur of the turtle world,» according to National Geographic.

This turtle has a soft, cuddly body and a hard shell that has a built - in nightlight, which emits a variety of stunning night sky constellations into the room.

This moulded turtle has a warm smile and a whole world of fun waiting just under his shell.

The shell comes off of the turtle so you can use the shape sorter separately from the pull along part.

The mobile has a white plastic arm that attaches to the side of a crib with four blinking, glowing leaves with stuffed animal attachments, including a yellow and gray giraffe, a green turtle with a gray and white polka - dot shell, a brown and tan monkey and a gray and white striped owl.

Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines (all living turtles belong to the crown group Chelonia), most of whose body is shielded by a special bony or cartilagenous shell developed from theiTurtles are reptiles of the order Testudines (all living turtles belong to the crown group Chelonia), most of whose body is shielded by a special bony or cartilagenous shell developed from theiturtles belong to the crown group Chelonia), most of whose body is shielded by a special bony or cartilagenous shell developed from their ribs.

On the back of a turtle, at rest on its shell, a turtle.

Measurements were taken and recorded for each turtle found, then each individual was marked twice — one a physical marking of the turtle's shell, and then each turtle receives a unique identifying chip.

The hawksbill turtle, that unhappy supplier of the shell used to fashion combs, was becoming scarcer.

In the top photo below, Leonardo Barolo, a biology student at the University of São Paulo, shows insects and a turtle shell to the public.

Its ribs were short and wide as in modern turtles, but the bony plates were absent — hinting that the ribs rather than the skin drove the evolution of the shell.

Bone fragments from a 210 - million year - old, land - dwelling reptile from New Mexico suggest that the earliest turtles didn't have much of a shell at all.

The researchers identified more than 1000 olfactory receptors in the soft - shell turtle, which is one of the largest numbers ever to be found in a non-mammalian vertebrate.

Turtles are often described as evolutionary monsters, with a unique body plan and a shell that is considered to be one of the most intriguing structures in the animal kingdom.

A newly identified fossil could explain one of evolution's biggest mysteries — the origin of the turtle's shell.

However, recent erosion revealed enough pieces of Chinlechelys tenertesta — Latin for thin - shelled turtle — to remove any doubt.

As the turtles grew, those isotopes left deposits in the shells» thick keratin, the same stuff our fingernails are made of.

A team of scientists in Hawaii has developed a way to chart the chronology of a turtle's life using the growth lines in its shell, much like the life span of a giant sequoia might be measured in tree rings.

After about 60 days of incubation inside their eggs, turtle hatchlings use a temporary tooth called a caruncle to break out of their shells.

The behaviour of Chinese soft - shelled turtle embryos (Pelodiscus sinensis) mimics that of adult reptiles basking in the sun to warm their blood.

«The turtle shell is a complex structure whose initial transformations started over 260 million years ago in the Permian period,» says Tyler Lyson of Yale University and the Smithsonian.

Instead of a rigid plastron and shell like modern turtles, Eunotosaurus merely had extremely broad, partly overlapping T - shaped ribs.

Head of the study Tyler Lyson from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Colorado, adds that, «Based on what we know today, solid shells did not appear in fossil stem turtles until 50 million years after Eunotosaurus.»

It had a fully developed plastron (the belly portion of a turtle's shell), but only a partial carapace made up of distinctively broadened ribs and vertebrae on its back.

Through careful study of an ancient ancestor of modern turtles, researchers now have a clearer picture of how the turtles» most unusual shell came to be.

Until recently, the oldest known fossil turtles, dating back about 215 million years, had fully developed shells, making it hard to see the sequence of evolutionary events that produced them.

Because the ribs of turtles have been modified to form the shell, they have also had to modify the way they breathe with specialized muscles.

Turtles are the only animals that form a shell through the fusion of ribs and vertebrae.

They plan to examine the novel respiratory system in turtles and see how it evolved in conjunction with the evolution of the turtle's shell.

The muscle sling was thus the anatomical prerequisite for the development of the rigid turtle shell.

The skeleton of the South African reptile Eunotosaurus africanus fills a gap in the early evolution of turtles and their enigmatic shell.

Lyson says he and his colleagues now plan to investigate various other aspects of turtles» respiratory systems, which allow them to manage with their ribs locked up into a protective outer shell.

Shells of poached sea turtles.