Terrestrial animal life was limited to unwinged insects like millipedes and scorpions. |
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Pulmonate snails, millipedes, scorpions, spiders and mites were certainly present, but are not known from fossils. |
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Ticks belong to the class Arachnida, which counts mites, spiders and scorpions among its members. |
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Mark's passion for peculiar pets started when he collected caterpillars, beetles and scorpions as a child. |
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I used to think it was to guard against scorpions or other stinging insects, but realised now that it was to prevent jigger attacks. |
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Although they have two small eyes, whip scorpions rely on their first pair of legs to help feel their way around. |
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This is the tactic used by scorpions, another group of chelicerate predators. |
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In some chelicerates, such as scorpions and some eurypterids, the pedipalps are modified into large claws. |
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Despite their foreboding appearance, whip scorpions are harmless to humans. |
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Only about 25 of the 1,500 known species of scorpions can deliver stings that are fatal to humans. |
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They look like scorpions without tail or claws, and they live from animals' droppings. |
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A widespread belief that basil bred scorpions is reiterated in the old herbals. |
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Other than scorpions, centipedes have to be the most disgusting bug on earth. |
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Safe for now the Scorpion continued on its journey, its targets for tonight were insects, spiders, centipedes, and other scorpions. |
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Besides their unusually long and dangerous tails, scorpions also differ from other arachnids in having large pedipalps. |
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Occasionally, scorpions would lift their pedipalps and pectines, reorient by moving forward or pivoting, then re-adopt the alert stance. |
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Oh, but blimey, while we were in there we saw chocolate ants, and chocolate locusts, and sugared scorpions. |
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In addition to honey, their diet included scorpions, spiders, insects, mice, lizards, frogs, snakes and fruit, she said. |
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Even after death, a tree trunk on the ground provides a home for desert night lizards, ants, and scorpions. |
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The sea lashed the rock like angry scorpions wishing for release from a cage making small droplets of water fly up. |
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These monstrous sea scorpions occasionally emerged out of the water to venture onto dry land. |
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It has led, among other things, to his being bitten by a snake and several times by scorpions. |
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Arachnids are members of a class of animals that includes spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks. |
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The false scorpions are small, brownish arachnids with large pincer-like pedipalps and flattened body. |
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My grandmother spends weekends in ghost towns looking for scorpions to cast in lucite. |
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The children were given the chance to handle giant snails, snake, frogs, tarantulas, scorpions, millipedes and cockroaches. |
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Toys made of rubber in the shape of snakes, lizards, chameleons, scorpions and crabs are selling like hot cakes. |
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These hot and dry rocky slopes support scorpions, tarantulas, collared lizards, pygmy rattlesnakes, roadrunners, and prickly pear cacti. |
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A gaff is also good for beating off wayward locals, snakes, centipedes, scorpions, dogs etc. |
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This type of feeding can be found among certain spiders, mantids, scorpions, copepods, and midges. |
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A few yards away, a South African officer has found one of the small but highly poisonous scorpions which infest the area. |
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Scientists had noted that during a sting, scorpions expel a clear liquid followed by a cloudy one. |
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The cast includes rabbits, pigs, cows, cats, scorpions, seagulls, snails, penguins and bats. |
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While the true scorpions have been classified in the Arachnida along with the scorpions, spiders, mites, etc, these being primarily terrestrial. |
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More than 70 species of mammals, 300 species of birds, 80 species of reptiles and amphibians, and hundreds of insects, spiders and scorpions have been recorded in the reserve. |
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Adorno's sentences twist around like scorpions to deliver a valedictory sting. |
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Greek respect for scorpions prompted the naming of the constellation Scorpius, a sign of the zodiac. |
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Species of whip scorpions range from small, light colored kinds about 3 or 4 mm long to the huge, black M. giganteus that may be almost 3 inches long. |
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Meerkats use their claws to dig for insects, snakes, lizards, spiders, scorpions, and plants. |
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They have the power to trample down serpents and scorpions, and to control the evil spirits. |
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In general, scorpions have the largest number of primitive arachnid features, and spiders and mites are the most highly evolved. |
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Yesterday, he took his Rainforest Roadshow to the school and introduced the children to tropical insects such as millipedes, tarantulas and scorpions. |
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The bolts fired by scorpions were certainly capable of being wrapped in rags, covered with oil or pitch, lit, and thus launched. |
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Some of the more poisonous scorpions lived in the deserts of Egypt. |
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I should say, incidentally, that I'm an amateur entomologist — or, more specifically, arachnologist — and that scorpions are my specialty. |
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Today we can offer you 30 venoms of different scorpions, snakes and batrachians. |
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The mealworm is offered as feed to captive arthropods like bird spiders, scorpions and praying mantises. |
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The pictures of the scorpions, spiders and camel spiders are great. |
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Meerkats have a highly varied diet that includes dangerous and fast-moving creatures like scorpions. |
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Other typical residents include desert tortoises, Gila monsters, tarantulas, scorpions, and a variety of lizards and snakes. |
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Aside from recounting his actual experience in the film, he brought several insects, such as centipedes, tarantulas and scorpions. |
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In the adjacent display cases you will see various small animals such as tarantulas and scorpions. |
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Despite my worries about snakes and scorpions, the glory of waking up to the sunrise in the Red Centre got my adrenaline going like never before. |
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During those early days of the campaign in Sicily, Canadian soldiers were mostly concerned with fleas, scorpions and mosquitoes. |
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Ants, spiders and scorpions may cause problems, especially during flooding. |
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He also mentions that scorpions have been the way they are for more than 400 million years. |
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Then, when the young are more agile, the parents give them live scorpions from which they have ripped out the sting. |
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Miller said he also hopes to study the relationship, if any, between Doliodus problematicus and giant, ancient sea scorpions, a type of eurypterid related to horseshoe crabs. |
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They include such things as spiders, leeches, millipedes, pill bugs, flatworms, mites, beetles, and water dwellers such as water scorpions and nematode worms. |
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We have a vacant plot next to our house and since the grass has caught up to a 6 foot wall, we are experiencing housebreaking, snakes, leguaans and scorpions. |
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Robert Oppenheimer, one of the scientists who created the American atomic bomb, characterized the atomic age as like two scorpions trapped in a glass jar. |
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Jungle pythons, carpet pythons, gecko lizards, tarantulas, scorpions, millipedes and cockroaches all now live in a specially insulated garage at the bottom of his garden. |
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The horseshoe crab, which is not really a crab but more closely related to scorpions and spiders, has been described as an armored box that moves. |
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Giant cockroaches the size of house mice, together with scorpions and fuzzy-brown tarantulas, run for their lives along with myriad smaller insects. |
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Snakes drop from the ceiling and scorpions rush you from the shadows, but somehow you force your way though them and follow Eddie down the flickering passages. |
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And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. |
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Shoot the snakes and scorpions first, because they move in fast. |
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The emphasis in these mountains lies again on chameleons and geckos, but many other creatures like millipedes, scorpions, beetles and butterflies are spotted during the search. |
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The discovery is published in the current issue of Biology Letters. The creature is believed to be the extinct aquatic ancestor of scorpions and possibly of all arachnids. |
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During his gruelling expedition he has dodged pit vipers, electric eels, anaconda and scorpions. |
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Here, there is a clear trend to acquire more and more exotic animals as house pets, because the Center has had to extend its care to tarantulas, scorpions, and monitor lizards. |
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There were snakes and scorpions that bit people and many more miseries. |
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In fact though, specialities such as turtle, sea serpents, snakes, bears' paws, cicadas, scorpions and rats are no less exotic to many Chinese than they are to Europeans. |
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Although they are not particularly diverse morphologically, scorpions are quite adaptable in terms of ecology, behaviour, physiology, and life history. |
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And they found bear claws, 400 live tortoises, a chameleon in a handbag and scorpions in postal packages. |
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Dr Han suspects that scorpions may provide an answer. |
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During the magical journey into the fascinating world of magicians and fakirs powerful constrictors, dangerous crocodiles and deadly scorpions cast a spell on the visitors. |
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Eurypterids, giant ravenous sea scorpions, and other invertebrate predators hunted fishes. |
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Roman siege engines such as ballistas, scorpions and onagers were not unique. |
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Some species' tails are armored, and some, such as those of scorpions, contain venom. |
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For example, while observing the water scorpion, Karima noticed that water scorpions have two little eyes and legs to capture their prey. |
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The same two trenches, home to fish and insects including the harmless but nasty sounding water scorpions, are used every year. |
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The story brings to life the food chain of glass shrimps, wrigglers, plague minnows, and of course water scorpions. |
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Eccentric flints show a great variety of forms, such as crescents, crosses, snakes, and scorpions. |
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Other displays are home to scorpions, golden web spinning spiders, assassin bugs and a whole host of other venomous creatures. |
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While some of the megaliths are blank, others are carved on their broader sides with elaborate designs featuring foxes, scorpions, lions, and other imagery. |
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I feel I should warn hon. members opposite that having dined in Asia upon worms, sea slugs and scorpions, I am ready for any challenges that might arise in the House. |
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There are scorpions and spiders, bees, butterflies, stick insects and the amazing leaf-cutter ant colony in the insect house. |
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The cave was populated by albino scorpions, blind salamanders, and other troglodytes. |
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The population consists of crabs, spiders, scorpions, sand fleas, beetles, large roaches, and many species of birds. |
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The haul totalled 95 eels, 487 pollack fish, 11 cod, six herring, three plaice, three lobsters, crabs and two long-spined sea scorpions. |
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Six species of living scorpions belonging to six genera were used in the taphonomy experiments. |
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Sun spiders, scorpions, centipedes, beetles and ants also are common, but most are nocturnal and spend the day underground. |
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These include 272 species of true bugs, 130 species of spiders and scorpions, 36 species of bees and 11 species of vascular plants. |
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Among the smaller animals found in Samoa are several species of lizards, two snakes of the boa family, centipedes and millipedes, scorpions, spiders, and a wide variety of insects. |
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The fossil record from that time includes land scorpions, primitive spiders called trigonobartids, large millipedes measuring several centimetres long, and even the first insects, which resemble today's silverfish. |
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Hidden Kingdoms Series that looks closely at the world of small creatures like the elephant shrew and grasshopper mouse, which can see off venomous scorpions. |
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The grasshopper mouse from dry regions of North America feeds on insects, scorpions, and other small mice, and only a small part of its diet is plant material. |
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Because of negative photokinetic behaviors in scorpions, the end of the track was shaded while the beginning was well-lit to encourage unidirectional movement. |
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Every night all you hear is explosions and you have got big, rats, snakes, scorpions and camel spiders, so if I do get to close my eyes either way I'm always a bit on edge. |
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They compared this to the nervous systems of horseshoe crabs and scorpions and found without doubt that the creature belonged to the chelicerate family. |
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The emergence date at the start of the second instar is comparable to the point when young, newly mobile uropygids and scorpions descend from their mother's back. |
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Like the deadly sandworms in the Dune science fiction series, a host of animals from scorpions to snakes burrow in desert sands across the planet. |
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The members also caught undersized turbot and sea scorpions. |
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They're also totally hardass and can even take out scorpions. |
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So he imports this special breed of scorpions and feeds them on metal meal and the scorpions turned a phosphorescent blue color and sort of hummed. |
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Topics covered range from scorpions, spiders, ants, and bees to mites, ticks, lice, bed bugs, sand flies, biting midges, mosquitoes, and horseflies. |
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