What is "arthropods"

Usage examples of "arthropods".

She had examined trees, shrubs, moss, fungi, and arthropods with singular intensity.

Although he had barely a high school education and was self taught in the sciences, Walcott became a leading authority on trilobites and was the first person to establish that trilobites were arthropods, the group that includes modern insects and crustaceans.

The sea swarms with tiny arthropods today that have left no fossil record.

The idea is that just as mammals bided their time for a hundred million years until the dinosaurs cleared off and then seemingly burst forth in profusion all over the planet, so too perhaps the arthropods and other triploblasts waited in semimicroscopic anonymity for the dominant Ediacaran organisms to have their day.

We wandered through a confusion of departments where people sat at large tables doing intent, investigative things with arthropods and palm fronds and boxes of yellowed bones.

This act is called enrolment, a rather common behaviour for arthropods, and it seems to me that this is what Tom has been doing these past weeks.

Vertebrates do it by means of a backbone and internal skeleton, arthropods achieve structural rigidity by means of a tough external skeleton or shell.

Through the mist loomed more many-storied arthropods, gnawing through one another even in death.

Why a cluster of arthropods should escape while a much smaller container of half-centimeter-long wigglers remained behind he could not fathom.

In front of them several dozen small arthropods with metallic green backs were marching along in single file, each using specialized gripping organs to maintain contact with its relative immediately in front.

The single-minded arthropods were not the first example of communal living they had observed among the Xican fauna, but they were by far the most attractive and amusing.

Le-jardin, who was standing outside one of their two huts stacking a half dozen recently collected arthropods held in compact observation and display cases.

He was not above dining on the local arthropods when other food was scarce, spading them from the soil or digging them out from beneath the bark of the peculiar trees.