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Their and skin
Their skin evolved and became more capable of retaining body fluids and resisting desiccation.
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 skin is tan or gray in color and hair is dark brown or black.
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 secretes a natural sunscreen substance which is red-colored.
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 skin is a light blue, and they possess a long, curled tail.
Their dry skin is thick and warty.
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.

Their and was
Their work was lonely.
Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.
Their social status was achieved in some cases by birth, as with Washington, Jefferson and Jay ; ;
Their policy ran counter to the traditional idea that a good fighter was usually a libertine, and that in sex affairs `` God-given passion '' was a proof of manliness.
Their answer was: it can be done, and we will do it.
Their only hope of survival was to hold to the road and keep marching.
Their house was a centuries-old Colonial which they had had restored ( guided by an eminent architect ) and updated, and added on to.
Their world, again, was a still simple, traditional age which was only slowly beginning to appreciate the complexity of life.
Their study showed that it was possible to transfer 3 to 4 lb of oxygen / hr. / hp.
Their onrush and retreat, he reported, was accompanied by a great hissing, roaring and rattling.
`` Their house '', writes Albert S. Flint, `` was always a haven of hospitality and good cheer, especially grateful to one like myself far from home ''.
Their territory lay to the north, near the sources of the Alabama, the Tombigbee, the Tennessee, and Cumberland rivers, and was easily accessible to traders among the near-by Cherokees.
Their joint statement was welcomed by the Western delegations who will attend tomorrow the nineteenth plenary session of the fourteen-nation conference on the future of Laos.
Their flight was delayed, Dunn said, when a boarding ramp inflicted some minor damage to the wing of the plane.
Their singing was well-balanced, clear and, within obvious limitations, extremely pleasing.
Their collaboration in the Beethoven Second Symphony was lucid, intelligent and natural sounding.
Their strategy was sound enough and, he reasoned, had been defeated only by Philip Spencer's unwillingness to sanction an idea he had not originated.
Their robust Calvinism was publicized in such confessions as the London Baptist Confession of 1644 and the Second London Confession of 1689.
Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.
Their second was Louisa May, who fictionalized her experience with the family in her novel Little Women in 1868.
Their goal was to regain access to Eden by finding the correct formula for perfect living, following specific rules governing agriculture, diet, and reproduction.
Their most famous battle against Rome took place in Argentoratum ( Strasbourg ), in 357, where they were defeated by Julian, later Emperor of Rome, and their king Chnodomarius was taken prisoner to Rome.

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