Sentences with phrase «own body length»

They are now larger, weighing about 8 lbs, with about 3 times the body length and leg height, and correspondingly larger bones, organs, muscles, more fur, etc..

Franklin set the world record in a comfortable full body length win over Anastasia Zueva, as well as fellow American Elizabeth Beisel.

Wahlen, starling half a body length in arrears, whaled the water to a froth, his heavy muscles pulling against his will to win heart against buoyancy, as Splash saw it.

«Kelbe whipped that kid off the block by half a body length.

The U.S. is building, not losing a body length to Australia, but not gaining either.

As the crowd watched in awe, Meagher extended her lead to two, then three body lengths as she drove toward the finish.

Meagher, 16, quickly opened up a lead of several body lengths in her heat of the 200 - meter fly, then eased off slightly, mindful of reserving strength for the evening final.

A scoop neckline and long body length means the Maternity Support Tank Top looks the part for layering underneath your tees and tops.

Fitted on real women, we have improved the fit of this style with long sleeves and ideal body length to easlily mix and match with your wardrobe for all occasions.

The long strap was adjustable too so you could shorten it to suit your body length.

Your babies weigh about 100 grams and their body length is only 12 cm.

The fit is very similar: close fitting through the body and long in body length.

I'm especially satisfied with the body length, since I hate when my back is exposed if I bend over!

Full length pregnancy pillow, or sometimes named as full length maternity pillow, is the one with long design, running along the body length to provide the entire body support.

You have the allowance for the head support, body length, and knee support.

Chimerarachne yingi, an extinct spiderlike animal found in amber, has a tail that stretches several times its body length, Susan Milius reported in «This ancient creature looks like a spider with a tail» (SN: 3/3/18, p. 32).

Roughly the size of a peppercorn (not including the tail, which stretches several times the body length), this newly described extinct species lived in forests in what is now Myanmar during the dinosaur - rich Cretaceous Period.

A tiny seedbug, common in Europe and Africa, has a penis that makes up 70 per cent of its body length.

Measuring 35 cm in length, 63 cm in width and weighing only 0.7 kg, MantaDroid can swim at a speed of 0.7 m per second, which is twice its body length, for up to 10 hours.

The robotic manta ray, which swims at the speed of twice its body length per second and can operate for up to 10 hours, could potentially be employed for underwater surveillance in future.

Body length, not including the tail, ranges from a maximum of just 28 centimetres on the smallest island, Genovesa, to 59 centimetres on the largest, Isabela.

Apart from the determination of time of death (mostly determined by the body length or weight of maggots), there are numerous other ways of using insects as an aid in investigations.

The robot, which is 47 centimeters long, swam at speeds of half a body length per second.

That's a tad slower than most real - life fish, which can swim two to 10 body lengths per second.

According to the researchers, the newly described penguin lived about 61 million years ago and reached a body length of approx. 150 centimeters — making it almost as big as Anthropornis nordenskjoeldi, the largest known fossil penguin, which lived in Antarctica around 45 to 33 million years ago, thus being much younger in geological terms.

While some of its relatives can extend their tongues an inch and a half, this bat's tongue can reach an astonishing 3.4 inches, or more than one and a half times its body length.

Based on the length of the footprints, we can estimate that the largest animals had a body length of about eight meters.

Some species can jump up to 50 times their body length.

The giant bill of the chestnut - mandibled toucan makes up a third of the bird's body length, but thanks to a honeycomb structure, it's not as heavy as it looks.

Ten species could swim well, covering more than three times their body length a second.

If the two fish were more than a body length apart, however, the trailing fish typically darted to the side, where it might catch the frantic prey if it veers from the lead pursuer toward some shelter.

A study published online Oct. 13 in the journal Current Biology describes how researchers used metal microelectrodes in a jumping spider's poppy - seed - sized brain to show that auditory neurons can sense far - field sounds, at distances up to 3 meters, or about 600 spider body lengths.

They differ most obviously from their spider and scorpion relatives in three ways: their massive two - segmented jaws, which can be up to one - third of their body length and are armed with teeth and spine - like and horn - like processes of various sizes; the flagellum, found on the jaws of adult males in most species and thought to play a major role in reproduction; and the malleoli, racquet - shaped sensory organs on the underside of the first segment of the last pair of legs.

The speed of the young, inch - long fish, thought to be among the fastest on the planet at about five body lengths per second, «dropped by about 37 percent,» Grosell said.

They cranked them up even more — to 200 microns per second (equivalent to 100 of the nanomachine's body lengths)-- by also adding hydrazine, an ammonia - derived chemical compound that accelerates hydrogen peroxide oxidation.

When spread out, those feathers span a diameter that is over 60 percent of the peacock's total body length.

In your article on ants» swimming skills, the measure used is how many body lengths an ant can cover per...

But for small insects, this distance represents several body lengths, a relatively long distance.

What Burnette found was that even when the target is relatively far away from the fish (up to six times the body length of the animal), the forces on the target showed little reduction with respect to a closer target.

But in the pythons, the HOX genes were active from the top of the spinal column to skeletal remnants of the hind limbs, says Cohn, explaining why snakes have ribs along almost their whole body length.

During tests, it demonstrated its ability to run nearly seven times its body length in one second.

Peacock spiders and other jumping spiders use internal hydraulic pumps rather than leg muscles to leap 30 times their body length.

And the necks of some of these dinosaurs made up much of their entire body lengths — up to 15 meters in the aptly named Supersaurus.

Exposure during the first and second trimester also came with decreased body length, decreased placental weight, and decreased anogenital distance, which can reflect abnormal hormone levels, says Blum.

Their analysis concluded that whale body length had varied randomly for about 30 million years before making a leap to more than 10 meters between 4.5 million and hundreds of thousands of years ago — a stretch of time that straddles the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, commonly referred to as the Plio - Pleistocene — which was more recent than previous research suggested.

Visitors could also see how far they could leap like a frog, an animal that can jump a distance of more than 10 times its own body length.

Considering only the commonly applied destructive extraction method, small spiders are useful for only a few years while those with a body length of around 3 mm or more have a good chance of yielding a barcode sequence for about 20 years after collection.

M.I.T.'s robo - fish prototypes cut through the water at close to one body length per second — fast for a robotic fish, but no match for the genuine article, which can swim as fast as 10 times their body length per second, according to the researchers.

For its size — 23 centimeters long and 1 kilogram in weight — it may be a record - holder among other robo - quadrupeds, its developers say, attaining speeds seven times its body length per second.

But using nondestructive extraction, even small spiders with a body length of 4 mm or less have a good chance of yielding a DNA barcode sequence for about 15 years after collection while spiders above this size can yield barcode sequences for a considerably longer time.