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Their dorsal skin is smooth, while their ventral skin is granular.
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Their venomous spines are on both dorsal fins, the pectoral fins, pelvic fins, anal fins, and several on the gill cover.
Their pectoral fins are quite small ; as a result they steer mostly with their dorsal and anal fins, which makes them very maneuverable, and they also use these fins to move with an exotic type of propulsion reminiscent of a propellor.
Their two dorsal fins are widely separated with the anterior fin having five spines, the posterior fin having one spine and nine soft rays.
Their dorsal fins are often continuous and long ; the pelvic fins typically have a single embedded spine and are short and slender, situated before the pectoral fins.
Their eyes and terminal mouths are large, with a single long, continuous dorsal fin which begins just behind the head ; the anal fin is similarly extensive, and both it and the dorsal fin may either have 1-2 spines, or none at all.
Their adaptation can be seen in many unique physiognomic characteristics such as the dorsal blowhole, baleen teeth, and the cranial ' melon ' organ used for aquatic echolocation.
Their dorsal side is covered with small bumps, which gives a rough texture and appearance while their ventral side is thin, transparent, and smooth.
Their watery muscle is not suited to fast swimming and long pursuit, so it is likely that they are ambush predators, using their narrow body profile and silvery colouration to conceal their presence, then use their large dorsal fin to generate large acceleration, and large mouth and teeth to engulf prey before it can escape.
Their ventral skin is a whitish color, and the dorsal and ventral skin is separated by a dark brown lateral stripe that goes from the eyes to the groin.
Their knuckle walking involves flexing the tips of their fingers and carrying their body weight down on the dorsal surface of their middle phalanges ( middle segments of their fingers ).
Their dorsal and anal fins are long and continuous, with the dorsal fin extending forward onto the head.
Their and skin
Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.
Their skin contains little keratin and lacks scales, apart from a few fish-like scales in certain caecilians.
Their tough skin is covered with dermal teeth ( again with Holocephali as an exception as the teeth are lost in adults, only kept on the clasping organ seen on the front of the male's head ), also called placoid scales or dermal denticles, making it feel like sandpaper.
Their sparkling, glittering scales contast to the smooth, even, metallic skin and scales seen in the Ogon varieties.
Their skin varies in colour depending on the subspecies, with some having light or dark gray skin and others having pinkish or even reddish skin.
Their temperature control mechanism relies on action by the bird, which uses its wings to cover the naked skin of the upper legs and flanks to conserve heat, or leaves these areas bare to release heat.
Their wings were formed by a membrane of skin, muscle, and other tissues stretching from the legs to a dramatically lengthened fourth finger.
Their moist skin usually makes them reliant on habitats in or near water, or under some protection ( e. g., moist ground ), often in a wetland.
Their skin consists of numerous, fine transverse rings and is often inconspicuously coloured orange, red or brown, but sometimes also bright green, blue, gold or white, and occasionally patterned with other colours.
Their skin, being both rigid and strong, as well as soft and supple, is recognized as being ideal for the production of leather gloves.
Their stings are often incapable of penetrating human skin, so the hive and swarms can be handled with minimal protection.
Their mouthparts are elongated to form a drill-like structure that allows them to penetrate the thick skin of their host.
Their skin is very similar to the common hippo's, with a thin epidermis over a dermis that is several centimeters thick.
Their collective cultures are known as " Creole ", though many non-Louisianans do not distinguish between the two groups, or do not recognize the distinctions made in the New Orleans area between the original white colonists whose offspring were the original first born in Louisiana and Creoles that were a mixture of people of European ancestry and slave populations ( or free men and women of color ) and whose skin was mulatto for lack of a better descriptor.
Their children for many years played upon the skin of the white bear – from which the lake derives its name, and the maiden and the brave remembered long the fearful scene and rescue that made them one, for Kis-se-me-pa and Ka-go-ga could never forget their fearful encounter with the huge monster that came so near sending them to the happy hunting ground.
Their album, Distort Yourself, released on 13 September 2005 achieved moderate success and the single " Bulletproof skin " was used in the motion picture Stealth.
Their teeth are variously suited to being able to grab bits of skin with the scales attached, and such bits of skin and scale formed major components of the stomach contents.
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