Sentences with phrase «winged animal bodies»

Cherubim, perhaps of Mesopotamian origin, were images with winged animal bodies and human heads.

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If you've ever noticed an animal shake itself as they all do, or a bird flap its wings profusely (usually after after a particularly intense situation for them), that's because they are alleviating themselves of the initial and sudden stress that the situation created within their bodies.

That's because the pterosaur used its wings to «stall» as birds do, says the team, so that the animal's body swung up from a horizontal flight position to near vertical, enabling it to land gently on its hind feet.

When bats go into hibernation, their body temperature drops and the fungus takes hold, eating away at the animals» muzzles and wings.

Researchers have bred butterflies to have disproportionate wing - to - body ratios, suggesting that natural selection plays a larger than expected role in determining animal form.

Wingspreads are a group of option trading strategies named after flying animals like butterflies and condors because they typically are composed of four options: two at outlying strike prices, called the «wings», and two at an equal middle strike price, called the «body».

As the name implies, your child gets to design a unique creature and, for the subtle educational part, they can also learn about where an animal might live based on recognizing certain body parts or structures (like wings would indicate the creature can fly).