We had a puppy
with bat wings.
The themes of Happy Place are an elaboration on Joseph Grazi's previous works, including 2012's «Fountain of Youth,» made of colored marbles and plastic toy balls, and 2011's «Legends,» sculpted
with bat wings.
The stadium smells like a campfire, and the Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race logo (a fish
with bat wings, which looks suspiciously like the butt of a rifle) flips around and around on the jumbotron.
Sculpt those biceps and triceps in just minutes
with this bat wing — blasting series from our resident yoga guru, Kristin McGee.
Not exact matches
«Now shall you deal
with me, O prince, and all the powers of hell,» she proclaims, as she rises in a mushroom cloud (the great symbol of unleashed evil in that Cold War era) to transform herself into an enormous horned and
bat -
winged dragon
with Fantasia's Satan's gleaming, slitlike eyes.
A lightweight drone
with features mimicking the
wings of
bats is an agile flyer and could be used to monitor safety risks at construction sites
The compliant
wings of a
bat - like flapping robot flapping at lower frequencies (7 - 10 Hz vs. 100 - 300 Hz of quadrotors) are inherently safe: because their
wings comprise primarily flexible materials and are able to collide
with one another, or
with obstacles in their environment,
with little or no damage.»
«It weighs only 93 grams,
with dynamic
wing articulations and
wing conformations similar to those of biological
bats.»
Bats have long captured the imaginations of scientists and engineers
with their unrivaled agility and maneuvering characteristics, achieved by functionally versatile dynamic
wing conformations as well as more than forty active and passive joints on the
wings.
«Our work demonstrates one of the most advanced designs to date of a self - contained flapping -
winged aerial robot
with bat morphology that is able to perform autonomous flight,» explained Alireza Ramezani, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois who is the first author of the cover article, «A Biomimetic Robotic Platform to Study Flight Specializations of
Bats,» appearing in AAAS Science Robotics on February 1.
For example, insects,
bats and birds have all evolved
wings that are similar in function but have completely different origins, eyes have emerged multiple times, and there is good evidence that nervous systems have also evolved several times,
with some creatures possessing strange systems unlike the brains and spinal cords we are used to.
If long - wave UV light is directed at the
wings of
bats with white - nose syndrome, it produces a distinctive orange - yellow fluorescence.
Inspired by the
wings of
bats, Ifju built a carbon fiber skeleton covered
with a latex membrane that pacifies gusts by acting as a shock absorber.
Among the biggest surprises in store for the researchers was how
bat wings manipulated the
wing motion
with correct timing to maximize the forces generated by the
wing.
«
Bats inspire «micro air vehicle» designs: Small flying vehicles, complete
with flapping
wings, may now be designed.»
This is possible because a
bat's
wings are thin, flexible membranes interwoven
with dozens of highly articulated muscles and joints that move in concert to adjust both lift and drag in subtle ways.
Real
bats have a network of sensory organs across their skin that researchers think provides them
with information about the flow of air over their
wings.
Birds» and
bats»
wings could be called exaptations of arms; however, the structural changes that followed can not be called adaptations because «you are talking about a historical incident; it's not something you can test,» said Mark Norell, a vertebrate paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History, who studied
with Vrba.
But a 2014 study found three fruit
bat species sometimes use a rudimentary method of echolocation: They make a clicking noise
with their
wings to navigate in darkness.
Fossil records show that their unique limbs could have supported flight, but unlike
bat wings or bird
wings, they were made of a living membrane reinforced
with muscle and tissue, stretched like a sail over a single long bone.
It may be missing fangs and
wings, but this two - eared robot has a few things in common
with bats: it recognizes objects using echolocation.
The researchers compared the
wings of the earliest known
bat fossil, a 50 - million - year - old specimen housed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City,
with those of three other species of extinct
bats and 10 species of modern
bats.
And
with water mussing their silky fur and dampening their
wings, bedraggled
bats might also be less aerodynamic.
The advantage to that is if you happen to be wearing an item
with sleeves that are voluminous or have
bat wings.
These sleeves are somewhat
bat -
wing like and I'm just obsessed
with how big they are.
Design 1: White jumpsuit
with bat -
wing sleeves, caplet, and a soft black belt.
The sleeves have a chunky
bat wing effect giving extra volume giving a nice on trend super-sized sleeve
with a smart twist.
The stone in between their
wings is a 7 mm African amethyst,
with tiny 2 mm amethysts in the
bat's mouths.
There's a seemingly permanent student
with an upside - down
bat wing for a mustache, a portly salesman who's older than some of the teachers.
It retains the prominent «
bat wing» rear fins, but pairs them
with a sleeker front grille, and replaces the»59 model's large teardrop tail lamps
with three conical lamps on each side.
The canyons, dry wash rivers, sandy creek beds, ditches, and gullies that joined up
with the Cap Rock cliff form the graveyard of past Indian civilizations, flying and testing grounds of herds of leather -
winged bats, drying grounds of monster - size bones and teeth, roosting, nesting, and the breeding place of the bald - headed big brown eagle.
One mouse has a revelation when he sees
bats flying overhead: They're little more than mice
with wings, so who's to say a mouse can't fly?
Kitting themselves out
with all sorts of makeshift
bat costumes, ranging from cardboard masks and logos to totally over-the-top capes and
wings.
It is a small black
bat with relatively big
wings with red sections and small feet.
There's a primitive figure of a man
with bat's
wings, a horse
with six heads and a woman crouching like a toad.
The work, which was recreated in part in Huang's House of Oracles retrospective, was a full - scale model of the cockpit section and left
wing of an American EP - 3 spy plane, filled
with taxodermically preserved
bats.
The argument that other things kill birds and
bats, and that fossil carbon is bad, falls to the ground like a Peregrine Falcon at Ivanpah Solar
with its
wings burnt, when you ask how effective wind turbines have been in putting coal mines and gas pipelines, and sounding for oil in the Arctic, out of business.
Monologs are green tree trunks
with a pair of
wings with webbed skin, similar to those possessed by
bats or dragons.