tortoise

Stand here for a few moments and look at this gem of a fountain with its four youths, each holding a tortoise and each with a foot resting on the head of a dolphin.

A tribe in ancient India believed the earth was a huge tea tray resting on the backs of three giant elephants, which in turn stood on the shell of a great tortoise.

In doing away with the tea tray, the elephants and the giant tortoise, science has developed a series of rationally defensible explanations of the cosmos.

In the cave, he found a tortoise and killed it, then removed the insides.

He used one of the cow's intestines and the tortoise shell and made the first lyre.

* Atlas Turtle ( Colossochelys atlas ), a prehistoric giant tortoise, formerly in the genus Testudo

The representation of Aphrodite Ourania, with a foot resting on a tortoise, was read later as emblematic of discretion in conjugal love ; the image is credited to Phidias, in a chryselephantine sculpture made for Elis, of which we have only a passing remark by Pausanias.

It is claimed that he was killed by a tortoise that fell out of the sky when dropped by an eagle ; however, this story is very likely apocryphal.

Obverse: Land tortoise.

In Chinese manuscripts, gold, camphor, tortoise shells, hornbill ivory, rhinoceros horn, crane crest, beeswax, lakawood ( a scented heartwood and root wood of a thick liana, Dalbergia parviflora ), dragon's blood, rattan, edible bird's nests and various spices were among the most valuable items from Borneo.

The oracle bone script numerals were found on tortoise shell and animal bones.

Though the Shang did not have a concept of " medicine " as distinct from other fields, their oracular inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells refer to illnesses that affected the Shang royal family: eye disorders, toothaches, bloated abdomen, etc., which Shang elites usually attributed to curses sent by their ancestors.

* Cassiopeia, a tortoise featured in Michael Ende's fantasy book Momo ( novel )

Reptiles include the aegean wall lizard, balkan green lizard, Chamaeleo chamaeleon, ocellated skink, snake-eyed skink, moorish gecko, turkish gecko, Kotschy's gecko, spur-thighed tortoise, and the stripe-necked terrapin.

Apollo chased her, and in order to win her favours turned himself into a tortoise, of which the girls made a pet.

When Dryope had the tortoise on her lap, he turned into a snake.

* Gopher tortoise ( genus Gopherus ), distributed in North America

* several species of giant tortoise on Seychelles and Mascarene Islands

* 2012 – The last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise, dies, making the species extinct.

They are in the sequence of the 1st Thirthankara to the 24th are: bull, elephant, horse, monkey, redgoose, lotus flower, swastika, crescent of moon, crocodile, shade providing tree, rhinoceros, buffalo, pig, porcupine, vajra ( a kind of weapon ), deer, goat, fish, jar, tortoise, lilly flower, conch, snake and lion.

Kotos may or may not be adorned, some adornments include inlays of ivory and ebony, tortoise shell, metal figures, etc.

The goods they sought — gold from the mines of Rhodesia, ivory, slaves, tortoise shell and rhinoceros horn — could more conveniently be gathered by local people in the interior and sold to the traders at the coasts during seasonal markets.

The Japanese name means " tortoise shell ," and is commonly written as べっ甲.

In addition, several animal species are so named, including Apistogramma agassizi Steindachner, 1875 ( Agassiz's dwarf cichlid ); Isocapnia agassizi Ricker, 1943 ( a stonefly ); Publius agassizi ( Kaup ), 1871 ( a passalid beetle ); Xylocrius agassizi ( LeConte ), 1861 ( a longhorn beetle ); Exoprosopa agassizi Loew, 1869 ( a bee fly ); and the most well-known, Gopherus agassizii Cooper, 1863 ( the desert tortoise ).

Many of the same surgeries performed in humans can be applied to animal cases-everything from an egg-bound tortoise to a German Shepherd can benefit from MIS.