What is interesting is that his positive qualifications for the post were revealed only as a kind of tail to his candidacy.

The order Caudata ( from the Latin cauda meaning " tail ") consists of the salamanders, elongated, low-slung animals that mostly resemble lizards in form, though this is a symplesiomorphic trait and the two groups are no more closely related than salamanders are to mammals.

Salamanders lack claws, have a scale-free skin, either smooth or covered with tubercles, and a tail that is usually flattened from side to side and often finned.

Locomotion on land is by walking and the tail often swings from side to side or is used as a prop, particularly when climbing.

In aquatic salamanders and in frog tadpoles, the tail has dorsal and ventral fins and is moved from side to side as a means of propulsion.

Some species in the Plethodontidae have a weak zone at the base of the tail and if the salamander is in danger or if the tail is grabbed by a predator, it breaks off, a process known as autotomy.

Adipose tissue is another important means of storing energy and this occurs in the abdomen, under the skin and, in some salamanders, in the tail.

A few days later, the tail is reabsorbed, due to the higher thyroxine concentration required for this to take place.

The tail is regenerated later but the energy cost to the animal of replacing it is significant.

The ears are disproportionately long, and the tail is very thick at the base and gradually tapers.

An aardvark's length is usually between, and can reach lengths of when its tail ( which can be up to ) is taken into account.

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.

One rumor is that Page was asked to leave after eating a fish tail with a neighbor.

The tail is long in the male and long in the female.

The most common description is that of a kangaroo-like creature with the face of a horse, the head of a dog, leathery bat-like wings, horns, small arms with clawed hands, cloven hooves and a forked tail.

The strings are gathered at the tail like an archtop guitar, but the top is flatter.

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.

Because the volatility of a comet's material decreases as it gets further from the Sun, the comet becomes increasingly difficult to observe as a function of not only distance, but the progressive shrinking and eventual disappearance of its tail and the reflective elements it carries.

The depiction of Cerberus is relatively consistent between different works and authors, the common theme of the mane of serpents is kept across works, as is the serpent's tail, most literary works of the era describe Cerberus as having three heads with the only notable exception being Hesiod's Theogony in which he had 50 heads.

In computer science, a double-ended queue ( dequeue, often abbreviated to deque, pronounced deck ) is an abstract data type that implements a queue for which elements can only be added to or removed from the front ( head ) or back ( tail ).

The Chinese hamster ( Cricetulus griseus ), although not technically a true " dwarf hamster ", is the only hamster with a prehensile tail ( about 4 cm long ) — most hamsters have very short, nonprehensile tails.

The tail of the Indri is only a stub, while avahi and the sifaka tails are as long as their bodies.

INTERCAL-72 ( the original version of INTERCAL ) had only four data types, the 16-bit integer ( represented with a, called a ' spot '), the 32-bit integer (, a ' twospot '), the array of 16-bit integers (, a ' tail '), and the array of 32-bit integers (, a ' hybrid ').

In Shaka's day, warriors often wore elaborate plumes and cow tail regalia in battle, but by the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, many warriors wore only a loin cloth and a minimal form of headdress.

Jason released the dove as advised, which made it through, losing only a few tail feathers.

The only sample of kryptonite on Earth was a single fist-sized chunk, caught in the tail of the infant Kal-El's rocket and carried to Earth along with him upon the explosion of Krypton.

Circularization is thought to promote cycling of ribosomes on the mRNA leading to time efficient translation, and may also function to ensure only intact mRNA are translated ( partially degraded mRNA characteristically have no m7G cap, or no poly-A tail ).

If the IMF has a southward component, this not only pushes the magnetopause boundary closer to Earth ( at times to about half its usual distance ), but it also produces an injection of plasma from the tail, much more vigorous than the one associated with substorms.

The head-and-body length is, with the vestigal tail adding only a further.

Eukaryotic mRNA can then be isolated through the use of oligo ( dT ) cellulose chromatography to isolate only those RNAs with a poly ( A ) tail.

Economists therefore sometimes state that the Pareto law as stated here applies only to the upper tail of the distribution.

In 1998, the discovery of one specimen assigned to P. kochi shed light on the life appearance of Pterodactylus, as it preserved unique soft-tissue traits not present in previous fossil skeletons, including long, bristly pycnofibres ( a fur-like body covering known only in pterosaurs ) on the neck, details of an urpatagium ( hind wing membrane between the legs and tail ) that also stretched between the toes as webbing, and a pelican-like throat pouch.

It is generally agreed though that non-pterodactyloid pterosaurs had a broader uro / cruropatagium, with pterodactyloids only having membranes running along the legs ; Pteranodon in particular might have developed / redeveloped an uropatagium, given the structure of the tail.

Now that most offensive formations have only one or two running backs, the original designations do not mean as much, as the fullback is now usually a lead blocker ( technically a halfback ), while the halfback or tailback ( called such because he stands at the " tail " of the I ) lines up behind the fullback.

: but only one tail.

When a modern ski is tilted on to its edge, a gap is created between the ground and the middle of the ski ( under the binding ) as only the sides near the tip and the tail touch the snow.

In head to head configuration this separation is only by 2 carbon atoms and the separation with tail to tail configuration is by 4 atoms.

However, such a tail highly flexible at the base but intensely stiffened elsewhere particularly against vertical movement is only found in association with the predatory foot claw ( to a lesser extent in troodonts ), and its design suggests and allows its use as an aid to the efficiency of the 2nd toe claw.

Big is a purple, noticeably overweight cat who must rescue his best friend Froggy who became possessed by Chaos ' tail, and swallows Big's " lucky charm ", a Chaos Emerald, which causes him to mutate.

This species is 18 – 20 cm long ; it lacks the two elongated central tail feathers possessed by most of its relatives.

The Queen Mother deity of the west, Hsi Wang Mu, sometimes possessed a tail of a tiger in her depictions and, like the tiger, was associated with the mountains ( Waterbury 1952, p. 76 ).

He possessed extended talons which contained deadly venom, he was bioengineered with a poison-spiked bionic tail, and was totally amphibious.

:" appears every reason to conclude that either its back was armed with a formidable row of spines, constituting a dermal fringe, or that its tail possessed the same appendage ".

It also possessed a powerful tail which later developed into a propulsion mechanism through water in its descendants.

Brought to the area as a colt, oral histories state that the " Rocky Mountain Horse ", as he was known, possessed the preferred chocolate color and flaxen mane and tail found in the breed today, as well as the single-foot gait.