10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EEL-LIKE»
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The greater siren has tiny front legs but no hind legs, and a long eel-like body. lt
can swim forward and backward by wriggling its body. The feathery gills can be
clearly seen on this lesser siren. Unlike other salamanders, sirens keep their gills
...
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Extraordinary Animals: An Encyclopedia of Curious and ...
The electric eel, like many other electrical fish is nocturnal. It will hunt at night for
anything small enough to be sucked into its capacious maw. • The battery-like
abilities of the electric eel is not the only interesting characteristic of this fish.
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Pansegrouw's Crossword Dictionary
... extract, grow, increase, infer, mature, obtain, open, opine, progress, reason,
surmise, unfold, unroll, wrest eel conger, moray, lamprey, dodger eel basket buck
eel-like aquatic animal lamprey eel-like fish burbot, cusp, lamprey eelpout blenny
, ...
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Snake Robots: Modelling, Mechatronics, and Control
Modelling of Robotic Fish and Eel-Like Mechanisms Research on robotic fish
and eel-like mechanisms is relevant to research on snake robots since these
mechanisms are very similar. A complete treatment of robotic underwater
locomotion is ...
Pål Liljebäck, Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen, Øyvind Stavdahl, 2012
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Aspects of Animal Movement
The way in which the eel-like body reacts all along its length with the water is
described by Gray (1933a). In marked contrast to eels, it is claimed that some of
the scombroid fish do shed nearly 100% of the propulsive force from the caudal
fin ...
Hugh Y. Elder, Edwin Royden Trueman, 1980
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Peterson First Guide to Fishes of North America
GUNNELS These long. eel-like fishes live in the inter- tidal zone. They prefer cold
water. PENPOINT GUNNEL To 1 V3 ft. This uncommon gunnel lacks pelvicjins
and has a strong spine on its analjin. The Penpoint eats small invertebrates in ...
Michael Filisky, Roger Tory Peterson, 1998
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Lake Monster Mysteries: Investigating the World's Most ...
... is dark and eel-like in appearance. George Eberhart, in his excellent
encyclopedia Mysterious Creatures, suggests that Cressie might be an oversized
American eel (Anguilla rostrata). Indeed, “the lake and surrounding ponds are
famous for ...
In extremely elongated eel-like fish, the angles between the spines and the body
axis show less variation. The angles of the dorsal spines of the eel-pout, Zoarces
viviparus, are between 45° and 50° in the abdominal region and 55° over most ...
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The Inland Fishes of Mississippi
A. Eel-like. B. Fusiform. include the pectoral fins, located behind the head, and
pelvic fins, located either below or behind the pectoral fins. In evolutionarily less
derived fishes, the pectoral fins are located low on the anterior part of the body
and ...
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The Untold Story of Champ: A Social History of America's ...
On January 26, 1887, the Plattsburgh Morning Telegraph described a sea
serpent sighting involving a “20 foot long snake” with an “eel-like head and body
thick as a man's, and snake-like tail that was eel-like” that was observed from a ...
Robert E. Bartholomew, 2012
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EEL-LIKE»
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eel-like is used in the context of the following news items.
Birding with Don Reimer: Beach Birds-
The hyperactive terns also forage the Popham inlet, hovering and plunge-diving to capture sand lance, a slender eel-like fish that is a dietary ... «Freepress Online, Jul 15»
The big five extinctions
But the discovery of an intact fossil in Scotland in the 1980s finally revealed their owner – a jawless eel-like vertebrate named the conodont ... «Cosmos, Jul 15»
Ancient fish evolved gills to survive acidic oceans
They are eel-like scavengers that generally lie around and the most active they get is when they use their rasping teeth to burrow into a sunken ... «ABC Science Online, Jul 15»
Saratoga National Fish Hatchery celebrates 100 years
... lake trout populations were decimated by over-fishing and an invasion of sea lamprey, a predacious eel-like fish native to the Atlantic Ocean. «Rawlinstimes, Jul 15»
Spare Parts cast spell of joy, loss
As Abel's wooden puppet head and skinny eel-like body twist and turn underwater before he comes to the surface, gasping for air, we know this ... «The West Australian, Jul 15»
Museum & Gallery Listings for July 3-9
A couple of inches below is a mound of sand around which are swimming little brown eel-like lampreys and bright orange Triops cancriformis, ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
Museum & Gallery Listings for June 26-July 2
A couple of inches below is a mound of sand around which are swimming little brown eel-like lampreys and bright orange Triops cancriformis, ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
Are these the world's first teeth?
(Among the few exceptions is the eel-like lamprey, which recently sent alarms through an Alaska town when the fanged creatures rained from ... «CBS News, Jun 15»
Invasive crab makes strange appearance in Cootes Paradise
Sea lamprey — The parasitic eel-like creature has had a devastating impact on sport fishing. • Round Goby — Aggressive feeding and the ... «Hamilton Spectator, Jun 15»
Breaking Brad: Watch out for drivers on Johnny Rodgers Street
In Alaska, "hellacious, eel-like fish" have been raining from the sky. I may never complain again about all the precipitation in Omaha this spring. «Omaha World-Herald, Jun 15»
