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bats
Both the Boeing Company and bats (the furry, flying mammals) are leaders in aeronautical performance and versatility, yet they have strikingly different ...
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Pufferfish Inflation
But when threatened, the puffer undergoes a remarkable transformation, its body swelling until the fish is three times its usual size and has become a rigid ...
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Pufferfish Inflation
To answer that, one need only picture a deflated, pleated puffer-it would be a ... Both fish first expand their mouths to draw in water, but the puffer then ...
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Pufferfish Inflation
But when threatened, the puffer undergoes a remarkable transformation, its body swelling until the fish is three times its usual size and has become a rigid ...
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Pufferfish Inflation
But only the spiny puffer (Diodon holocanthus) combines inflation and pointy ... Also called balloonfish, spiny puffers belong to the Tetraodontiformes, ...
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Throwing Yourself into It
In the Mexico City long-jump finals, in a transcendent display of physical ... would actually generate more power, leading to an increase in jump distance. ...
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Lab Alumni
Jan 10, 2008 ... Brian Sears - Shark skin puncture resitance - 2005. Excellence in Research 2005. Bryan Nowroozi 2005-2006. B.A. Berkeley ...
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Batoid wing skeletal structure: Novel morphologies, mechanical ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML Swimming Mode and Skeletal Structure. In undulatory swimmers there is reduced (cate- ..... trated catalogue of shark species known to date. Rome: FAO. ...
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'Nemo' May Hook Public on Plight of Marine Life
By Jerry Hirsch, Times Staff Writer. In "Finding Nemo," a tropical fish named Gil, ... Eric Cohen, co-owner of Sea Dwelling Creatures Inc., a Los Angeles ...
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Silk Biomechanics
In 1887 an obscure California medical journal published a frontier physician's observations on the remarkable properties of silk. ...
