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And these spines don't always drive you to make the best choices.
But why is it that some of our common shrubs have spines which seem to be over-engineered to resist browsing by deer?
RF: So if you look carefully at this, what you see is that they have spines and until a few weeks ago, no one knew what they did.
And where they have a problem with this kind of mesh, because they don't have spines.
The crabs are missing spines, so they have a problem in this kind of rough terrain.
But of course, we can deal with that because we can produce artificial spines.
We can make spines that catch on simulated debris and collapse on removal to easily pull them out.
We did that by putting these artificial spines on crabs, as you see here, and then we tested them.
So to our blueprint, we need to add tuned spines.
Let's slow it down and you can see the spines in action.
Now just because we have a distributed foot and spines doesn't mean you can climb vertical surfaces.
Now if we look at animals, though, to be really maneuverable in all surfaces, the animals use hybrid mechanisms that include claws, and spines, and hairs, and pads, and glue, and capillary adhesion and a whole bunch of other things.
The next step is to make compliant toes, and try to add spines and claws and set it for dry adhesives.
These tuned structures allow the spines, friction pads and ultimately the adhesive hairs to grab onto very challenging, difficult surfaces.
It has spines, gluey pads and claws, but if you take off those feet, they can still go over rough terrain, like the bottom video that you see, without hardly slowing down.
From these drawings, we know that this creature, which lived about 100 million years ago, was very big, it had tall spines on its back, forming a magnificent sail, and it had long, slender jaws, a bit like a crocodile, with conical teeth, that may have been used to catch slippery prey, like fish.
We had long spines, the spines forming the big sail.
All analysis was gone, adrenaline brain kicked in, and I just yanked the spines out.
Now, it turns out, when you've been stabbed with sea urchin spines, and you're two days away from any medical help, the thing that you've got to do is, unfortunately, cook your hand.
Babies' spines just have one curve like a "c."
After all, they don't have lungs, spines, or even a plural noun we can all agree on.
The books also have high-packed LEDs on the spines.
Meanwhile, Tecciztecatl flaunted his riches, using magnificent jade spines and branches adorned with iridescent quetzal feathers for his own blood offering.
Unlike modern turtles, it couldn’t retract its head into its shell, but had defensive spines on its neck.
And one of the other things I'd been interested in and obsessed with over the years is spines and skeletons, having collected a couple of hundred.
One day when I was only seven years old and fishing, I pulled a "pinfish," they're called, with sharp dorsal spines, up too hard and fast, and I blinded myself in one eye.
The chupacabra of legend is a dog-faced lizard-skin greenish-gray monster that hops like a kangaroo, has fangs and claws, has a row of sharp spines sticking out from its back, and sucks the blood of livestock.
Indeed, the scene in which Alison encounters her noisy upstairs neighbor is truly terrifying, and should certainly send the ice water coursing down the spines of most viewers.
These small alien creatures latch on to human's spines and control their nervous system and their entire bodies.
The movie's title on the front and back covers and both spines is embossed.