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Land-dwelling tortoises, meanwhile, have domed shells that can slip free of predators’ jaws and help them turn right-side up if they fall on their backs.
Leatherback and softshell turtles have shells without the ring of bone around the edge of the carapace or the tough scutes covering it, making it easier for them to squeeze into tight spaces.
It's made up of 16 concentric shells.
They were built as shells— thin-walled but strong, and much lighter than the Roman ships.
Crabs, stingrays and other fishes with crushing teeth appeared, smashing shells and leading to an arms race between predators and prey.
Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.
Barely pausing to say hello, he offers him hematite, dried seaweed, and empty shells to grind up for lime and chew with coca leaves.
So we dug a hole and I covered her in sand and shells and drew this little mermaid tail.
And if you look even closer, you'll see, in that limestone, there are little shells and little skeletons that are piled upon each other.
This sediment is 100 percent made up of the shells of microscopic plants.
So one of the things we're seeing is organisms are having to spend more metabolic energy to build and maintain their shells.
I want to see solar cells seamlessly integrated into our building shells to be both resource-efficient and a pleasure to look at.
Being in this area on investigation, we have revealed start-up jet shells by insurgents .
A few examples: in an early scene Soviet infantry are attacked by the Germans; instead of staying in their trenches to shoot at them, they advance into open ground to fight them,contrary to all infantry tactics; Kate, one of the central characters, is supposedly the daughter of a White Russian and obsessed with her Russianness, yet she does not speak Russian; a guilt-stricken German airman attacks an anti-aircraft gun- the gun, however, does not fire shrapnel shells but scores a direct hit on his 'plane, which doesn't look much like a German 'plane of WWII.
From the minuscule and unconvincing set (snipers seem to be about ten meters away) apparently made of plaster, to the actors who are also apparently made of plaster with "amusing" stereotypes painted thinly on top, to the oddly warm pool in a frozen cave, to the survival of the cast uninjured when medium artillery shells burst a few meters away on open ground, and finally the awful script that reads like a training manual more than a film....
The Burtons have done a superb job directing the cast to break out of their shells and create new and inventive characters.
How can people survive when there are artillery shells falling as close as 20 feet away?
"Breaking and Entering" is about breaking the shells that separate people and entering their lives.
There should have been a lot more explosions of French artillery shells bombarding the city.
I see only a few faults other than those listed---officers and sailors out on deck watching 11 inch shells going over their heads--and they have no battle gear on?
I cared nothing for the characters, they were just empty shells with nothing to say or do but look scared and get blown to bits.
Shotguns don't hold 100 shells nor do 9mm hand gun clips provide that kind of firepower.
It literally has hundreds of soldier running into battle and artillery shells blowing up around them and killing some.
Then Johnathan and his mother have wonderful times together skipping on the beach and collecting shells and junk.
At the end the seemingly unstoppable train is being stopped by a bomb made of black powder from two dozen shotgun shells!
They were a beast of a gun! it pumped out shells like no tomorrow, had a frickin shotgun stapled on the bottom, and it sounded awesome!
There were a couple of characters that were somewhat interesting, however, the storyline never delved deeper into their personalities the way I had hoped...and left them being empty shells of people with no real backgrounds or insights into what made them tick or why they were the way they were.
She had lost an eye and he a hand to Israeli shells in the war of 2008-2009.
Similarly, after North Korean shells killed innocent South Korean civilians in November 2010, China remained essentially silent.
All the global opportunities of the new decade could fade if countries withdraw into their own national shells.
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