Sentences with phrase «stinging barbs»
Snorkel and Dive First of all, these huge manta rays are gentle, and do not possess stinging barbs like their stingray cousins.
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Dark and sultry - looking, Rita La Roy was burlesque queen Taxi Belle Hooper in Josef Von Sternberg's The Blonde Venus (1932) and thus on the receiving end of some of Marlene Dietrich's more stinging barbs.
According to the researchers, the lip mucus probably serves a double purpose, forming a seal on the coral's surface while shielding the fish from stinging barbs known as nematocysts.
Surprisingly, Rays, the fish with wing - like fins and a remnant sting barb, express this awareness.
Not exact matches
When a bee stings a human, bear, or other mammal, the barbs of the stinger become embedded in the opponent's flesh.
When a live animal — a small shrimp, perhaps — brushes against its tentacles, the hydra shoots out poisoned barbs to sting and paralyze its prey.
The bee's stinger evolved originally for inter-bee combat between members of different hives, and the barbs evolved later as an anti-mammal defense: a barbed stinger can still penetrate the chitinous plates of another bee's exoskeleton and retract safely.