How could it handle something exceptionally spiny like a cactus?
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There is a tassel fern, spiny as a pipe cleaner.
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There's a whole universe folded into this slender, spiny novel.
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Puggles are baby short-beaked echidnas, a species of spiny anteater.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson seems to have forgotten about spiny cat penises.
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The tapered shape is inspired by the local spiny Lichnos fish.
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A dead spiny ant with fungal spores erupting out of its head.
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This week's challenge will feature Ctenosaura pectinata, The Mexican spiny tailed iguana.
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Last year, the California spiny lobster retailed close to $23 a pound.
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She watches her hand reach out to smooth its cold, spiny fur.
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How spiny lobsters are able to dig them up remains a mystery.
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The leaves had fallen off the trees, and their spiny branches were bare.
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According to Masury, seafood buyers in China initially preferred the Australian spiny lobster.
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It projected the outline of the spiny creature on a security agent's screen.
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Plump or spiny, tiny or looming, succulents have enormous variety and endless appeal.
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To understand, it may help to consider violins and the California spiny lobster.
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While there are technically two seasons in Florida for harvesting spiny lobster, most of the hype and fanfare associated with spiny lobster stems from the frenzied, two-day mini-season that always falls on the last Wednesday and Thursday in July.
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Despite her attraction, Laurey approaches Curly like a spiny creature, scared of being touched.
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It is October 1, the first day of recreational spiny lobster season this year.
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The Chinese, she says, aren't privy to clawed crustaceans and tend to prefer spiny ones.
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Sheephead and calico, like the spiny lobster, can't be found in the average American supermarket.
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A 60-year-old man unfortunately died while diving for spiny lobster in Cudjoe Key.
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A pair of Norwegian langoustines resembled a spiny, skinny version of a typical restaurant lobster.
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In the field beyond were spiny broom shrubs that shone in the sun like lanterns.
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In seven of nine paintings, the rock is framed on either side by a spiny pine.
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The spiny animals carry Salmonella in their droppings — even though the animals appear fine and healthy.
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Durian is a spiny Asian fruit that emits a distinct odor, which many people find offensive.
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If Mario bumps the floor just as the spiny approaches the barrier, it pops right over.
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We'd first like to apologize to female cats, who must endure male cats' barbed, spiny penises.
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Yesterday I had some spiny lobster that was prepared with potatoes, olive oil, and lemon butter.
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Okay so let's be clear: the spiny mouse's menstrual cycle doesn't actually follow that of humans.
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Weird beetle dick (Image Johanna Rönn)Spiny genitals aren't just some outrageous evolutionary display of masculinity.
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A decade later, though, a spiny eel wriggles in her stomach whenever she thinks about it.
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This narrative of domestic seafood being shipped to other countries isn't just limited to spiny lobsters.
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The local cuisine is comprised largely of seafood, including spiny lobster, conch and fresh mahi mahi.
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The arrangement is reminiscent of single-file formations assumed by modern spiny lobsters during mass migrations.
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After the chimeras reached adulthood, the researchers located the spiny rat iPS cells within their bodies.
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Surpassing value was also placed on the pinkish shells of spondylus, a species of spiny oyster.
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Others—salmon, spiny lobsters, thrush nightingales—may use it for migration and homing, alongside other sensory cues.
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"We got poked and scratched by spiny branches when crawling through to access the animals," said Bartlett.
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The NMFS said Tuesday the daggernose shark, striped smoothhound shark, spiny angelshark and Argentine angelshark are endangered.
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The ball came to rest just alongside and almost underneath the spiny leaves of a gorse bush.
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But instead of handing over what they actually want, she keeps handing them sharp, spiny desert plants.
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And there are separate paths that allow Mario to bump the spiny from one side to the other.
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The spiny dogfish used to be abundant worldwide, but overfishing has caused huge population decline since the 1920s.
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Tiny, spiny eel bones, deep-fried until they're as crunchy as potato chips, are offered as an appetizer.
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The garden includes the stunning Lin Lougheed Spiny Forest of Madagascar, named for the art collector and donor.
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It's a dynamic plant, with fuzzy leaflets that grow into large spiny leaves that sprout bright fuchsia flowers.
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There are only two kinds of egg-laying mammals in existence today – the platypus and the spiny anteater species.
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Echidnas (also known as puggles) are a species of spiny anteater that are notoriously difficult to breed in captivity.
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Unlike the Maine lobster, the spiny lobster lacks massive delicious claws, leaving the tail as the only edible part.
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Up close, the land was spiny and jagged, a pile of pinkish granite with squat trees and tough succulents.
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They can make themselves look like a cobbled seafloor, a spiny piece of coral or a hunk of granite.
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One species, spiny dogfish, accounted for 238 percent of all commercial shark landings in the United States in 210.
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As just one example, the infamous and rage-inducing blue spiny shell has been nerfed a bit this time around.
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She described to me how the plant grudgingly yielded its prize, how the spiny shell would scrape open her fingers.
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Spiny lobster caught in California—95 percent of which is typically exported to China—is on the menu as well.
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The clawless spiny Caribbean lobsters caught off its coast tend to be more prized in China than Maine's pincered ones.
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The track designs are wonderful, the weapon balance (Spiny Shell aside) feels right, and there's definite scope for planning and strategy.
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The National Marine Fisheries Service on Tuesday listed the daggernose shark, striped smoothhound shark, spiny angelshark and Argentine angelshark as endangered.
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It's not only about where you travel, but with whom you're breaking bread (or in our case Japanese spiny lobster shells).
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Female spiny mice have a 9-day cycle and they spend about three of those days bleeding, according to Nature News.
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It's not uncommon to find shingleback lizards in backyards, spiny echidnas in suburban parks, or poisonous brown snakes in office workplaces.
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American lobsters tend to be less expensive in China than other live seafood, such as spiny lobsters and geoduck clams, she said.
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The so-called Spiny Forest in the region is blanketed with low-lying vegetation and dotted with several species of large trees.
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The others — from families as diverse as catfish, elephant fish and spiny eels — are found in the shallower waters along the riverbanks.
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The Health Issue With a kid's hubris, I was certain I could take care of two hermit crabs into their spiny dotage.
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Red Lobster is a major purchaser of Caribbean spiny lobster, a species that lives in coral reefs in the western Atlantic Ocean.
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When they were on the move, they could use it to scale the spiny trunks of drunkwood trees to harvest wild honey.
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And some of California's most important seafood — including the spiny lobster, the market squid and the Dungeness crab — are becoming increasingly vulnerable.
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The combination of full moon, muted light, celadon palette, spiny, sentinel-like pines, and solitary rock formation evokes an otherworldly hush and reverence.
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Monadjem: There was the giant rat, there were spiny mice, there were soft-furred mice that I caught quite commonly in the traps.
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In the past, he's done dental work on primates in Indonesia, wrangled lizards in Botswana and watched the echidnas (spiny anteaters) of Australia.
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This close to the panels, she could see weeds growing in the shadows and spiny lizards lying in the sun, soaking up heat.
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Our red, spiny friends are, of course, not to be ignored in the canon of seaside food, whether you're in Maine or Cornwall.
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Without them, the Caribbean spiny lobster fishery, which generates more than $450 million a year, would not be as robust as it is.
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The spiny mammal will look more like the rapid rascal you remember, with bigger eyes and fewer teeth than its original movie persona.
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The spiny lobster became the first known example among animals of the stick-slip phenomenon, a deeply studied principle of science and engineering.
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The footage shows an orange-ish colored fish with billowy brown fins and what appear to be spiny legs scuttling around the ocean floor.
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Go deeper: The three species are Allocyclosea bifurca and Cyclosa turbinata , both types of trashline orb-weavers, and the spiny orb-weaver ( Gasteracanthea cancriformis).
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Just last May a spiny hill Turtle was born at the zoo, described by the International Union of Conservation for Nature (IUCN) as endangered.
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The most sold shark species for both fishmongers and takeaways was the spiny dogfish, but sales of nursehound and starry smoothhound were also common.
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Fortunately, Sapp seems to be taking the whole affair pretty damn well and it hasn't soured his opinion of spiny lobster in the least.
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All things said, it seems as if Sapp is fine with shedding a bit of flesh in exchange for some freshly caught spiny lobster.
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The female stem cells in this study were able to approach mature sperm development because of the Amami spiny rat's unique biology, she said.
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Among the finds were 124 species and eight subspecies believed to be new to science, like the spiny rat, whiptail lizard and orchid below.
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Though a lobster farm is being developed in Asia, it will raise spiny lobsters, not the big-clawed North American lobsters that Americans crave.
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Together we swam up to a pair of red-glowing eyes that belonged to a large painted spiny lobster bristling with an exotic armored shell.
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Unlike other rodents, the spiny mouse — a nocturnal mouse found in northern Africa — menstruates regularly, according to a study published in bioRxiv earlier this month.
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Thirty seconds is far too short to find an inner tranquility, but these spiny forms don't fail to endlessly mesmerize even in their separate corral.
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The gentle, teasing flavor of fire and smoke finds its way beyond grilled local spot prawns and spiny lobsters — into salt, into fruit, into salads.
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One of them has an Asian theme, with extraordinary bonsai, while another is planted with the cactuses and spiny plants of the American Southwestern desert.
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Both female and male Amami spiny rats have only one X chromosome, an arrangement only known to occur in a handful of rodents among mammals.
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Adorning her own ear at Phillips was the Delphine, a nest of spiny pavé diamond claws with a dime-size green tourmaline dangling boldly beneath.
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At least 763 people have gotten sick and two people have been hospitalized with Salmonella after getting a little too close to their spiny, fuzzy friends.
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Scientists lodged minuscule temperature sensors into dozens of spiny lizards—who are native to Texas and Oklahoma—and conducted controlled experiments in the New Mexico desert.
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This process, called chemotaxis, is seen in present day crustaceans like spiny lobsters, which also line up in an antennae-to-tail procession as they migrate.
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Alternatively, here's Curry in his first race of the day (as Yoshi in the top left), hitting a spiny and then driving straight into a hole.
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He pulled out a rock crab from California with a lovely speckled shell and a pair of California spiny lobsters with deep black and red shells.
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Although the spiny dogfish is classed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, selling it for food in Britain is not necessarily illegal.
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The most damaging five were collared peccaries (a New-World cousin of the pig), red brocket deer, pacas, agoutis, and spiny rats (the last three being rodents).
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Roaches also have spiny legs, so if you push the bug too deep down by using tweezers or a Q-tip, you risk tearing apart your eardrum.
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Scientists captured 50 male turtles in ponds in southeastern Oklahoma belonging to four species: western chicken turtles, Mississippi mud turtles, common musk turtles, and spiny softshell turtles.
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It centers around a group of brittle stars, echinoderms with four-to-five forked and spiny arms that usually measure three feet across, and one lonely squid.
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The increased demand from China has raised prices of the California spiny lobster to the point where most Americans consumers are not willing to pay for it.
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The process involved Mr. Kelly's carefully measuring a real spiny lobster in inches, before converting it into feet, then bolting the structure's 0003 pieces together in midair.
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The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) said Tuesday it will add daggernose sharks, striped smooth-hound sharks, spiny angel sharks and Argentine angel sharks to the list.
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A pillow encased in wax slumped against the floor, its texture spiny and rough, as if white barnacles had grown over its hope of ever cradling someone's head.
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The reason diners might not know that, though, is because spiny dogfish is often sold under other names like huss, flake, and rock salmon, as The Guardian reports.
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As we lumbered along through a sea of spiny ocotillos with red blooms on their fingertips, we had an unadulterated view of the Guads' much-studied rock exposures.
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Anybody who has spent a decent amount of time in South Florida can tell you just how big of a deal the spiny lobster season is to locals.
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The overpopulated, spiny invertebrates mow down kelp, but now a company looking to collect and sell urchins to gourmands could offer the ailing ecosystem a chance to rebound.
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For instance, Bramatherium was a thick-set Asian giraffe with four, spiny skull projections that formed an erect forehead shield, making it look like some kind of fuzzy dragon.
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Bartlett and colleagues spent days working in 100 Fahrenheit heat at a care facility in one of the tortoises natural habitats - the spiny forests on the island's southwestern coast.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Sonic the Hedgehog got a dental makeover this week – Paramount Pictures redesigned its upcoming movie after fans freaked out about the spiny blue hero's teeth.
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Hefting bags and babies, they climbed a muddy dirt path that cut through spiny brushlands, walking toward the agents, who awaited them at a gap in the border wall.
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His spiny lobster catch has been hit with costly tariffs as part of the White House's trade war with China, yet he supports President Trump, and Mr. Curbelo, anyway.
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The Schneider's Skink lizard, Lapwing, and Cyprus Spiny Mouse were presumed to be endangered or extinct in Cyprus until they were found thriving in the buffer zone in 2007.
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"We've got a really old boy that comes through every night," Anne Carter said, adding that sightings of echidnas — also known as spiny anteaters — and wombats are also common.
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Dr. Vannier and his colleagues examined specimens of Ampyx priscus found in Moroccan fossil beds, which preserve single-file lines containing as many as 22 of the small spiny arthropods.
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The spiny hills of Rinca and Komodo islands loomed before us, home to some of the last of the few thousand Komodo dragons (they take their name from the island).
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After sharks were seriously overfished around Australia, for instance, the octopus population increased dramatically and preyed heavily on spiny lobsters – decreasing the crustacean population and causing hardship to local lobster fishermen.
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There won't be any red shell throwing or bananas along the route, so if you're leading the pack then you don't need to worry about a surprise spiny shell at all.
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They range from smaller, coastal sharks near land — spiny dogfish, sandbar and sand tiger sharks, for example — to larger great white, blue and mako sharks in the open ocean (pelagic sharks).
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Because Fairchild is at the same latitude as that country, it is able to nurture the spiny octopus trees, swollen baobabs, cactuses and desert roses found on the world's fourth largest island.
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Politicians in Madrid are grappling with outstanding issues in the implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which aims to avert catastrophic global warming, including the spiny issue of accounting for carbon emissions.
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Brainerd: And they do that anywhere 2115 or 210 times, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, until they inflate completely, and then they hold it and they'll just be a big, spiny ball.
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In the central hall, Ramiro Gomez's installation "Cut-Outs" (2015) hugs the length of two walls, depicting domestic workers tending stark California modernist spaces amidst painted blue pools and spiny green palm trees.
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Bermuda has a growing problem with the lionfish, a spiny and voracious invasive species with no natural predators that is a threat to its native fish and the health of its coral reefs.
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Brainerd: And they do that anywhere 10 or 15 times, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, until they inflate completely, and then they hold it and they'll just be a big, spiny ball.
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In a paper published on Thursday in Current Biology, Dr. Higgs and colleagues report that sea-grass-dwelling lucinid clams make up 20 percent of what Caribbean spiny lobsters eat in artificial reefs.
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Critical darlings have been anointed, most notably Analeise Gregory, the chef at Franklin, who not only serves sea urchin roe draped around linguine with wild fennel, but also dives for the spiny beasts herself.
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KINGSTON SOUTH EAST, Australia — On a grassy patch of land beside the Princes Highway, Casey Sharpe sighed as he looked up at his most prized and problematic possession: a 2220-foot-tall spiny lobster.
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In a study published in Science Advances on Friday, Japanese scientists suggested that cells of the endangered Amami spiny rat, from Japan, are sexually flexible and capable of adapting to either ovaries or testes.
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It is a wildlife haven, with its own varieties of kangaroos, echidnas (a spiny anteater) and cockatoos, as well as a koala population seen as insurance should disaster strike the species on the mainland.
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Alongside bringing in tourist dollars, healthy coral reefs, seagrasses and salt-tolerant mangroves provide habitats for many species that generate an income for fishermen - from spiny lobsters in Belize to bonefish in the Bahamas.
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Nearby are spiny leaves of the Mexican poppy, bending stems and white flowers of bloodroot, slender blooms of the Pacific bleeding heart, elaborate petals of orchids, and bright yellow flowers of the narrowleaf evening primrose.
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It couldn't have outrun even a human, and that's why it had a spiny club at the tip of its tail, Horner says: it used it to defend itself against the more agile T. rex.
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The research, led by Bárbara Goettsch of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), confirms fears about the increasing vulnerability of this iconic group of spiny plants to poaching, invasive bugs, and habitat loss.
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Marine life found at the reef include enormous sponges, multiple types of algae, corals and related animals, hydroids (small predators related to jellyfish), spiny lobsters, at least 73 different species of fish and other organisms.
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In honor of Pixar's latest short film, here's a close look at spiny tongues and month-old bird-sperm This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals.
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Those wildly varying habitats are home to thousands of animals, according to a new survey, including 124 species and eight subspecies believed to be new to science, like the spiny rat and the whiptail lizard.
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The garden was founded in the mid-1960s by Hans Thiemann, a then-38-year-old agricultural engineer in Bremen, Germany, whose family had for generations nurtured a passion for the slow-growing spiny succulents.
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This study shows that the spiny rat's sex cells have "astounding" fluidity, said Diana Laird, an associate professor in reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, who was not involved in the study.
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My mother would collect shells for her expanding pile in the hallway bathroom back in North Carolina — spiny urchins, weathered sea glass, fishing nets with skate eggs and sand dollars, displayed like shiny brass trophies.
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I also asked Philip Reno, a Penn State anthropologist who was part of the team that analyzed the Neanderthal genome for the spiny penis gene, if there's anything we can learn about female Neanderthal sexual organs.
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There's a ton of these spiny and smooth succulents for sale, either individually or arranged in terrariums by the staff, plus a lot of actually reasonably priced pots to nestle your new Instagram-able additions in.
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These days, spiny lobsters form similar columns, maintaining contact by resting their long antennae on the animal in front, when they are migrating to and from the deep waters where they overwinter to escape the cold.
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Sheila Patek, a biologist at Duke University, is an expert in spiny lobsters, among other oddities of the animal kingdom, and several years ago discovered that some species of the clawless crustaceans do something utterly unusual.
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It is a complex, wonky bit of science, deeply researched and best explained by a battery of experts — from shoe designers to rubber scientists, mechanical engineers to acoustic experts, even a biologist familiar with spiny lobsters.
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"The dinosaurs in my series look and think of the world as if they were aliens, but also in a very rationalist and critical manner," Saenz said of his toys he has named 'Dino,' 'Spiny' and 'Brachy'.
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Vast "urchin barrens" — stretches of denuded seafloor dotted with nothing but hundreds of the spiny orbs — have spread to coastal Oregon, where kelp forests were once so thick it was impossible to navigate some areas by boat.
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The study of spiny damselfish, a small species from Australia's Great Barrier Reef, found that those best able to tackle high carbon levels in the water produced offspring with flexible body clocks that helped adapt to acidification.
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"The minimum size limit for California spiny lobster is three and one-fourth inches, from the horn of the lobster to the rear edge of the body shell," Thomas Templar, a scuba instructor at Ocean Safari, says.
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This is a fact that former NFL hall of famer Warren Sapp learned the hard way after being bitten by a shark while diving for spiny lobster two days ago at the start of the mini-season.
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There are always a handful of softer challenges to get us started; for me today, that was SUBJECT / SUSPECT, SPINY / SPITZ, BONKERS / BORDERS … the entries that had letters involved that just didn't work in too many cases.
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His skeletal designs inspired both the multi-mouthed xenomorphs that stalked through the shadows of the series, and the spiny architecture of the alien world in Prometheus, and make their way into the world of Metroid as well.
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Yorgos Lanthimos's confrontational, bleakly funny sci-fi satire about love, death, and turning into a dog was undoubtedly one of the year's best films, but it's rare that the Oscars recognize such a small, spiny movie at all.
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Cosima updates Delphine on Aisha, and how they're manipulating tumors not with chemotherapy, but with gene therapy, something Leaky had been studying in spiny mice — which just so happens to be the type of mouse given to Kira.
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Almost 90 percent of the fish and chip takeaway shops analyzed were selling a species of shark called Squalus acanthias, or spiny dogfish, which is currently considered endangered in Europe by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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Back in 2008, Ted Danson (yes, the Good Place actor is apparently also big into ocean conservation) said that the fish-and-chip-related decline in spiny dogfish populations indicated a need for better guidelines on shark fishing.
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Since 2014, Fujio has been traveling around his country, documenting its old playground equipment that takes on massive, delightful forms, from slides shaped as giant animals to jungle gyms that resemble spiny monsters half-buried in the earth.
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The paintings are modest in scale, and the recurring subject is a landscape — hills, rock formations, spiny pines, a river and/or waterfalls — presided over by a full moon in a celadon green sky punctuated by faint, orange stars.
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"At the International Conference on Fun with Algorithms taking place this week in La Maddalena, Italy, Demaine will describe how the key to building a locked door in Super Mario Brothers is to exploit a monster called a "spiny.
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Daphne shook the word "alien" out of her head; she'd picked it up from one of the comment threads on the news articles, some bozo theorizing that the spiny lumps came from space when they clearly just came from the ocean.
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John Stamos rung in his 54th birthday on Saturday by giving his 2.1 million Instagram followers quite the present: a steamy photo of him scrubbing down in an outdoor shower, with nothing but some spiny palm fronds to cover his backside.
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