Sentences with phrase «when lizard»

There are sights, sounds and smells that keep him happy and on alert, as he never knows when a lizard might cross his path!

And when the lizard brain looks at something in the environment, it says, «Do we eat it?»

When a lizard sees a fruit, it climbs up the side of a cactus and grabs it.

Another observation: when lizards aren't under the constant threat of death, they're less picky.

Surprisingly, though, warmer springs rather than warmer summers are the killer, because this is the time when lizards reproduce and so need lots of extra food.

When lizards do show up, the gameplay changes to a series of quick - time events for the getaway.

«When lizards are displaying amongst trees, where the background is shaded, a feature like this actually makes a lot of sense,» said Leal.

Not exact matches

It was only when Mark slowed to the pace dictated by his son that he was able to notice things: rabbits, flowers, lizards, butterflies... things Mark had previously missed in the hurry of everyday life.

An old nun, old and as white as a lizard, used to pray in Sacred Heart Church when I was a boy.

You know the one after the time where it was in the tree tempting Eve, so I guess when it tempted Eve it looked more like a Lizard, but then afterward God plucked it's limbs off for punishment along with giving women birth pains.

Worst of all however was last year, when an unapologetic lizard walked onto the circuit during a practice session.

«The lizard brain rules only when people allow it to rule.»

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Through years of research, scientists at Blue Lizard Australian Sunscreen have created a high - grade formula that is non-greasy and invisible when applied to the skin.

When visiting ponds, rivers, dams and lakes, keep an eye out for frogs, lizards and other small reptiles.

Lizard Nightmare - Baby Sign Language Story When my son was about 12 months old, we had a bunch of those 2 - 3» hard plastic lizards you get out of the quarter machine.

Equally stomach - turning, in India at least 50 school children were recently sickened when a dead lizard was reportedly served to them in their school meal.

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When the authors tested the ability of the lizard and snake versions of this limb - genital enhancer to function in mice, they found that the lizard version was capable of driving gene expression in the legs and the genitalia (much like the mouse version), while the snake version was only capable of driving gene expression in the genitalia.

Toasty temperatures trump genetics when it comes to the sex of a bearded dragon lizard.

When things get hot, embryonic bearded dragon lizards turn female — and now scientists might know why.

When the researchers analyzed their data, the results showed clear selection pressure in favor of the most heat - tolerant lizards in the transplanted lizards, but no trend among the controls.

When he was an undergrad at Bard College in New York, tarantulas shared his dorm room with a hawk, ferrets, a monitor lizard, and a ball python.

The changes were observed by Mats Olsson of the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia, and colleagues when they measured the telomeres of wild sand lizards, Lacerta agilis (Biology Letters, DOI: 10.1098 / rsbl.2010.0126).

His life took a turn toward the nonaverage in the early 1980s, when a colleague innocently asked him to examine a fossil of a diseased marine lizard to identify what ailed it — something he regularly does for his living Homo sapiens patients — and Rothschild got hooked.

When the cats were kept awake by encouraging them to play with toy lizards for 6 hours — an unusually long stretch between cat naps — adenosine levels soared higher than during normal states of alertness.

Anolis lizards have a thing or two to teach humans about love — or in scientific speak, sexual selection — at least when it comes to territoriality.

When Goldman fed this torrent of data into a computer model, he discovered that the main mechanism underlying sand swimming was a wave that passed from head to tail, pushing off from the sand and generating enough thrust to propel the lizard forward.

When University of Geneva biologist Michel Milinkovitch started studying naked bearded dragons, he just wanted to know why the lizards didn't have scales — he never expected to solve a major evolutionary puzzle.

When the researchers repeated the chamber experiments, they found the cold tolerance of the surviving Brownsville lizards had increased — the animals could right themselves down to 6 °C, just like the northernmost lizards, Campbell - Staton and his colleagues report today in Science.

But when the robot lifted its tail after it left the ramp — just enough to make up for the vehicle's forward pitch — it landed even more gracefully than the lizards.

The Swiss researchers have demonstrated that, when EDA is malfunctioning in lizards, they fail to develop a proper scale placode, exactly as mammals or birds affected with similar mutations in that same gene can not develop proper hairs or feathers placodes.

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Scientists are not sure how the mothers know when to give extra estradiol, but they note that side - blotched lizards have excellent color vision — better than humans — so it is easy for them to tell the color of their lizard neighbors» throats.

When the researchers determined the evolutionary ties between the lizards based on their DNA, they discovered that the three accepted Hydrosaurus species are actually four.

McGuire and his colleagues and students have collected reptiles and amphibians throughout the island — flying lizards are his particular love — and taken genetic samples to reconstruct the evolution of species over time and perhaps shed light on how and when the islands came together.

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«Wait until you see how angry the American people get when they discover... NIH [has] been using federal tax dollars to study «lot lizards,»» coalition director Andrea Lafferty declared in an open letter.

When they're on the run, some lizards take to their hind legs, dashing about like miniature dinosaurs.

These preserved specimens of snakes, lizards, frogs, fish and other animals can last up to 500 years when processed in a chemical called formalin.

As for the cactus, it provides the fruit during the day, when few other herbivores apart from these lizards are active.

His model indicated that a lizard would start to run on two legs when it reached a certain rate of acceleration — the same way a powerboat rears out of the water and a motorcycle pops a wheelie.

That's a good thing for the skink, because lizards can drop their tails when in danger and regrow them later.

When alive, the creature was probably about 40 centimeters long — about the size of a large lizard — and weighed about 2 kilograms.

When researchers studied the present - day distribution of anole lizard species across the Caribbean, they found that an island's geographic isolation no longer necessarily corresponded to fewer species.

When attacked, a lizard releases its tail either by direct trauma or sometimes before it is even touched.

But when Jagnandan observed leopard geckos with a tail in his laboratory, he realized that they wag it as they walk, suggesting that these movements may be key to the lizards» locomotion.

But since the lizards only forage when it's warm, the flowers are opened when insect pollinators are likely to be about.

Coastal horned lizards suffer when invasive ants chase out the lizards» native prey.

The coastal horned lizards feed almost exclusively on ants, but they much prefer to munch on the native varieties — exactly the ants that are driven out when Argentine ants move in.