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Both quadrates are preserved in articulation with the respective mandibles.
All species are sleek, raptorial predators, relying on fast locomotion and large mandibles to actively chase down a variety of arthropod prey.
Leaf-cutting ants travel from their nests to trees and hack off bits of leaves, which they grip in their mandibles.
Other eusocial animal groups defend themselves with stingers, mandibles, and sharp teeth.
A nauplius consists of the first three cephalic segments and the appendages belonging to those segments, the antennules, antennae, and mandibles.
It is clear from the well-preserved articulated mandibles of KUVP that the sutural surfaces of the apposed adsymphysials did interpenetrate.
The human remains comprise one complete mandible, two fragmentary mandibles, and a cranial fragment.
The young birds' mandibles begin to cross about two weeks after they fledge, and they learn to extract seeds soon after that.
The trap-jaw ant fires its mandibles with such force to propel itself to the front of the pack.
They crush the honeybees in their mandibles one after another until the bees are all dead.
Yet the actual morphology of mandibles is very different, a result of distinct mandibulate and haustellate modifications.
The horizontal axis is a bicephalous serpent with mandibles made from jade that symbolize water and feathers.
The symphyseal region of the mandibles is short, wide, and slightly downturned.
It also had a tail adorned by a pincer with spikes on the inside of the mandibles.
The mandibles have distinctive doubled condyloid processes, forming a double articulation.
One female searched in various spots from 1050 to 1149 hrs before she began digging with the mandibles and forelegs.
These seven males carried the egg away from the nest in their mandibles or rolled it out of the nest by pushing with the culmen.
The mandibles were exposed to dermestid beetles, cleaned, and the coordinates of 16 landmark points were digitized for the right hemimandible.
The larvae have a non-retracting head capsule, consisting of sclerotized chitin, which bears opposing mandibles, antennae, eyespots, and various other sensory structures.
Behind the mandibles, Mandibulata bear one, or more typically, two pairs of maxillae, frequently with a long palp, as in the second maxilla of Macrocyclops.
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I must also be careful of its legs and mandibles, the least touch of which would rip open the nurseling.
The mandibles are prominent, so as to terminate the head in an angle, toothless and forcipate.
It has its mandibles for a pick-axe and its tarsi, armed with tiny claws, for rakes.
The second antennae, mandibles and two pairs of maxillae may also be claimed as of malacostracan type.
The eyes were probably stalked, the antennae and mandibles biramous and natatory, and both armed with masticatory processes.
Logs and skulls of baleen whales had been set on end for walls, and mandibles and ribs of whales had been used as rafters.
There are three distinct examples of the occiput and fragments of the dentigerous portion of three mandibles.
When the flea is feeding, the epipharynx and mandibles are thrust into the skin of the victim, the labium serving as a guide.
The piercing proboscis consists of three long needle-like organs, the epipharynx and mandibles, and a lower lip or labium.
Max il' l, the appendages just back of the mandibles in arthropods.
It moved, like other dipterous larv, by means of its mandibles.
The mandibles, however, are in part derived from the chondrocranium.
But other mandibles of the same kind of ape are very different.
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