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Sentence Examples
Perth Zoo is another fine place to see native wildlife, such as the platypus and echidna that were the inspiration for the Olympic mascots.
The mascots at the Summer 2000 games in Sydney, Australia, were a platypus named Syd, an echidna called Millie, and a kookaburra called Olly.
To the kangaroos and emus of the outback, I was able to add sightings of wallabies, a wombat, and an echidna.
In the echidna, anteaters, and pangolins, there are qualitative differences in tongue construction.
The echidna depends more on its hearing than its eyesight, though it does see reasonably well.
But it is the immediate predecessor of modern mammals, such as the platypus and the echidna.
The echidna is a nocturnal animal which means it only comes out at night and it is rare to see one during the day.
The mammals the researchers studied were the platypus, echidna, opossum, wallaby, hedgehog, mouse, rat, rabbit, cow, pig, bat, tree shrew, colugo, ringtail lemur, and humans.
The platypus may be common in quiet waterways, and the echidna, or spiny anteater, also survives, even in urban areas.
Like these higher mammals, the platypus and the echidna also have a jaw composed of a single bone, three inner-ear bones, relatively high metabolic rates, and hair.
However, the five species of monotreme, the platypus and the four species of echidna, lay eggs.
More primitive mammals, such as the echidna, can only hiss, as sound is achieved solely through exhaling through a partially closed larynx.
The long-beaked echidna does not share much in common with the golden-rumped elephant shrew, although both are endangered.
The echidna is a monotreme, which is the extremely small subset of oviparous mammals.
Under a microscope, the structures resembled electroreceptors in the egg-laying platypus and echidna, and looked somewhat like dolphin whisker follicles.
With this dog, her own son, Echidna incestuously begat the Sphinx.
Examples from Classical Literature
The interclavicle is absent from all mammals except echidna and Ornithorhynchus.
Dr. Klaatsch thinks that these smaller and included pouches are the equivalents of the mammary pouches of echidna.
The Ornithorhyncus has fur, the echidna has spines, with hairs between them.
There are two varieties of this species, the Port Moresby echidna and the hairy echidna.
The echidna of Australia is sometimes called porcupine ant-eater.
Man-serpent, therefore, in Dante, as echidna is woman-serpent.
In Ornithorhynchus the zygomatic arch is much stouter than in echidna.
Readers have to look very carefully, just as Nan told Simon to do, to find the butterfly, frog, gecko, echidna, owl, and stick insect concealed in the illustrations.
This fact perhaps lessens the significance of the perforation of the acetabulum of Echidna.
In Echidna the carpus is broad, the scaphoid and lunar are united and there is no centrale.
The acetabulum is perforated in Echidna as in birds, but not in Ornithorhynchus.
The pterygoids are smaller than in Echidna, and the hard palate does not extend so far back as in that genus.
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Along the way the three friends meet and defeat Procrustes, Charon, Medusa, Echidna, and Ares, who is masquerading as a Santa Monica biker bad guy.
