Sentences with phrase «wriggling worms»

DiChristina: Even Charles Darwin wondered about this puzzle, and he had an idea about it; he thought that it may be the worms were trying to escape a predator, moles who are seeking protein in the form of wriggling worms.

Imagine a tiny donut - shaped droplet, covered with wriggling worms.

His students and postdocs call them the Lost Years: those 2 years in the»70s, long before he ever pondered the charms of a wriggling worm named Caenorhabditis elegans, when Harvard geneticist Gary Ruvkun lived the life of a long - haired hippie nomad.

Not exact matches

However, the deposited larvae did grow into adult worms and begin wriggling around on the surface of the Beckley's eye.

As a result, alcohol - exposed worms stop wriggling — the C. elegans version of the sluggish, uncoordinated behavior characteristic of inebriated humans.

Their photosynthetic partners provide the worms with everything they need, so they can simply wriggle into the sand for cover when the tide comes in and avoid being swept away.

Unlike deep - dwelling European earthworms, the Asian jumping worms — named for the way they flop and wriggle when held or disturbed — prefer to live and eat within a few centimeters of the soil surface.

But rather than people, she is describing the movements of tiny transparent worms as they wriggle about in laboratory dishes at the Rockefeller University in New York, where she holds the position of Torsten N. Wiesel Professor.

The movie begins with a catastrophe at a Chinese power plant: a malicious little worm of code has wriggled its way into the system and shut down turbines in the cooling pool, leading to a reactor breach and the threat of meltdown.

How to Eat Fried Worms wriggles onto DVD just in time to add indigestion to your Christmas celebrations... which might make it the perfect gift for those worried about weight gain over the holiday season!

As hazel, dogwood and wild cherry go in, there's a shriek, as a worm is picked up by one of the boys who lets it wriggle across his palm.

One night, something that might have been a big worm but could also have been a small snake (and that at least was not a scorpion) wriggled out of the shower drain when I turned on the hot water.

Annelid aficionados Mastertronic today announced their barmy bunker of banana bombs and bazookas, Worms Collection, will be wriggling its way into stores on August 31st for the Xbox360 and 7th September for the PS3.