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One female, collected on an island off the coast of Nicaragua, was gravid and measured 4 feet 8 inches from snout to vent ( her tail should be between 6 and 7 inches long ).
Maggie had shaken himself awake and was licking the sand off his stubby whiskers and his long plume of a tail.
Though equipped with limbs and the ability to breathe air, most still had a long tapering body and strong tail.
At hatching, a typical salamander larva has eyes without lids, teeth in both upper and lower jaws, three pairs of feathery external gills and a long, somewhat laterally flattened body and tail with dorsal and ventral fins.
The ears are disproportionately long, and the tail is very thick at the base and gradually tapers.
An aardwolf is about 55 to 80 centimeters long, excluding its bushy tail about 20 to 30 cm long, and one stands about 40 to 50 cm tall at the shoulders.
Typically for a theropod, Albertosaurus was bipedal and balanced the heavy head and torso with a long tail.
The tail is long in the male and long in the female.
Most bipedal animals move with their backs close to horizontal, using a long tail to balance the weight of their bodies.
The tail is moderately long and slightly wedge-shaped.
They grow to a size of only 13 to 28 cm, with a tail that is very long, sometimes up to one and a half times as long as the body.
They are excellent climbers and can also jump far, using their long tail for balance.
Comets are most interesting when their nucleus is bright and they display a long tail, which to be seen sometimes requires a large field of view best provided by small telescopes or binoculars.
There's never been a worm with that tough a head or that long a tail!
The curved tail is dual-purposed: to be seen more easily in long grass and, in the case of burrowing dachshunds, to help haul the dog out if it becomes stuck in a burrow.
For instance, Freeze Arrows ( introduced in DDRMAX ) which is a long green arrow that must be held down until the tail of it reaches the Step Zone, that is given an " O. K .!
In chemistry, especially biochemistry, a fatty acid is a carboxylic acid with a long aliphatic tail ( chain ), which is either saturated or unsaturated.
Foxes are small to medium-sized canids ( slightly smaller than a medium-sized domestic dog ), characterized by possessing a long narrow snout, and a bushy tail ( or brush ).
The tail ends in a long, dark tuft of hair and is used as a defense against insects.
The species of genus Phodopus are the smallest, with bodies long ; the largest is the European hamster ( Cricetus cricetus ), measuring up to long, not including a short tail of up to.
The hamster tail can be difficult to see, as it is usually not very long ( about 1 / 6 the length of the body ), with the exception of the Chinese dwarf hamster, which has a tail the same length as the body.
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He was shaking with anger, his breath coming in long, painful gasps.
And he was handsome, despite the long thin scar that slanted across his cheek.
only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.
It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.
Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.
Moreover, as long as the weapon was carried openly, the sheriff's office had made no previous issue of it.
he was long past the point of coherent thinking.
`` Well '', he explained, `` s'posin' you was a nester swingin' the long rope??
He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.
So long as Sally's pa was coming out best on the haggle, Dan didn't feel the need of putting in his two-bits' worth.
The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.
It was a rough long ride through the mud and pot holes.
My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.
She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.
Her white blond hair was clean and brushed long straight down to her shoulders.
His long nose wiggled at the smells of frizzling bacon and heating java, but the fire was low, and he wanted to waste no time.
Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.
To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.
They went down in a heap and for a long minute there was nothing to see but flailing arms and legs.
There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.
Commanding the Continental Army for six long years of the Revolution, he was the indispensable factor in the ultimate victory.
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