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    was somewhat American and perhaps a bit heavy[citation needed], with rudimentary tail fins. The body was an expanded version of the earlier, Facel-bodied...
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    females will be slightly larger than the males. They have short legs, a rudimentary tail and round ears. Their lateral and dorsal coloration tends to be grey...
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    artificially mutilated parents, and yet there was not a single example of a rudimentary tail or of any other abnormality in this organ." The experiment, and the...
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    The long-tail boat (Thai: เรือหางยาว, RTGS: ruea hang yao, pronounced [rɯ̄ːa̯ hǎːŋ jāːw]) is a type of watercraft native to Southeast Asia that uses a...
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    Examples of vestigial structures (also called degenerate, atrophied, or rudimentary organs) are the loss of functional wings in island-dwelling birds; the...
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    artificially mutilated parents, and yet there was not a single example of a rudimentary tail or of any other abnormality in this organ." Weismann was aware of the...
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    round, fuzzy ears. Unlike any other living lemur, the indri has only a rudimentary tail. The silky fur is mostly black with white patches along the limbs,...
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  • Spyro: A Hero's Tail is a 2004 platform game developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software and published by Vivendi Universal Games for the PlayStation 2...
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    in—but varies between—all lemurs, is very spotty. The ring-tailed lemur also has a rudimentary foveal depression on the retina. Another shared characteristic...
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    Fin (redirect from Fluke (tail))
    such as cetaceans, actively propel and steer themselves with pectoral and tail fins. As they swim, they use other fins, such as dorsal and anal fins, to...
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    Coccyx (redirect from Tail bone)
    four or five rudimentary vertebrae. It articulates superiorly with the sacrum. In each of the first three segments may be traced a rudimentary body and articular...
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    viviparous–matrotrophic. Only some species of doliolids still have a rudimentary tailed tadpole stage, which is never free-living and lacks a brain. Tunicates...
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    dorsal nerve cord, an endostyle or thyroid, pharyngeal slits, and a post-anal tail. In addition to the morphological characteristics used to define chordates...
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    in search of insects. The fantail built a cup-shaped nest, with a rudimentary tail, of decayed wood fibre and grass, bound with cobwebs and lined with...
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    The band-tailed pigeon (Patagioenas fasciata) is a pigeon native to the Americas, and the largest pigeon native to North America. They are a native species...
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    Dolphin (redirect from Tail-walking)
    Although dolphins do not possess external hind limbs, some possess discrete rudimentary appendages, which may contain feet and digits. Orcas are fast swimmers...
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    female during copulation. Pelvic spurs are the only external sign of the rudimentary hind legs and pelvis and are seen in all boas and pythons. The coloring...
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    long, but most do not exceed 30 cm (12 in). Thick and flabby with a rudimentary tail, the oval electric ray seems virtually incapable of swimming. Instead...
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    Fish fin (redirect from Caudal tail)
    interact with water to generate thrust and help the fish swim. Apart from the tail or caudal fin, fish fins have no direct connection with the back bone and...
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    the wings or tail of a bird; those on the wings are called remiges (/ˈrɛmɪdʒiːz/), singular remex (/ˈriːmɛks/), while those on the tail are called rectrices...
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    on the Isle of Man, with a mutation that shortens the tail. Many Manx have a small stub of a tail, but Manx cats are best known as being entirely tailless;...
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    name, nail-tailed kangaroo, was provided by Gould for the peculiar claw at the tip of the tail, noting the presence of only a rudimentary spur in its...
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    maximum length of 38 cm and T. tarakea to 35 cm. The flabby disc and rudimentary tail of the blind electric rays suggest that they are poor swimmers. Instead...
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    which he termed rudimentary, in The Descent of Man (1871). These included the muscles of the ear; wisdom teeth; the appendix; the tail bone; body hair;...
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    commonly has 11 to 13 non-rudimentary gill rakers and the Mexican snook (C. poeyi) is most often found to possess 15 to 18 non-rudimentary gill rakers. The Pacific...
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    (African) crested rat (Lophiomys imhausi) is a nocturnal, long-haired and bushy-tailed East African rodent that superficially resembles a porcupine. The world's...
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    the infraorder Brachyura (meaning "short tail" in Greek), which typically have a very short projecting tail-like abdomen, usually hidden entirely under...
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    during the Iran–Iraq War. The Ababil-2, developed in the 1990s, has rudimentary surveillance capabilities and can be used as a loitering munition, but...
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    each other and to the lower ankle bones, forming a tarsometatarsus. A rudimentary fifth metatarsal is present. The first metatarsal was attached to the...
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    horseshoe crab (Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda), also known as the round-tailed horseshoe crab, is a species of horseshoe crab, a chelicerate arthropod...
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