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Swordfish are ectothermic animals. Along with some species of sharks , they have special organs next to their eyes called heater cells which function to heat their eyes and brains. [ 13 ] Their eyes are heated to temperatures measured between 10 and 15 °C (18 and 27 °F) above the surrounding water temperature; this heating greatly improves ...
Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga (鳥獣人物戯画, literally "Animal-person Caricatures"), commonly shortened to Chōjū-giga (鳥獣戯画, literally "Animal Caricatures"), is a famous set of four picture scrolls, or emakimono, belonging to Kōzan-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan.
Bai Ze – A creature from Chinese mythology with the head of a human and the body of a cow with six horns and nine eyes. Catoblepas - One version of the creature in Gustave Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony depicts it with the head of a wild boar and the body of a black African buffalo. Criosphinx – A Sphinx that has the head of a ram.
Final cartoon in which Sylvester speaks; 102 The Wild Chase: February 27 MM Friz Freleng and Hawley Pratt (co-director) DVD: Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4; with Speedy Gonzales, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner; Only pairing of Sylvester and Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner; Final cartoon directed by Friz Freleng
Protosphyraena is a fossil genus of swordfish-like marine fish, that thrived worldwide during the Cretaceous period (Albian-Maastrichtian). Fossil remains of this taxon are mainly discovered in North America and Europe, and potential specimens are also known from Asia, Africa and Australia. [1]
In cartoons and humorous popular culture, the sawfish—particularly its rostrum ("nose")—has been employed as a sort of living tool. Examples of this can be found in Vicke Viking and Fighting Fantasy volume "Demons of the Deep". [citation needed]
The Chinese paddlefish (Psephurus gladius; simplified Chinese: 白鲟; traditional Chinese: 白鱘; pinyin: báixún: literal translation: "white sturgeon"), also known as the Chinese swordfish, is an extinct species of fish that was formerly native to the Yangtze and Yellow River basins in China.
Instead of hunting animals, she cares for them to smothering lengths [5] and falls into the stereotype of the "spoiled and piercing-voiced girl." [5] She is one of the few human characters in the series and she attends Acme Looniversity with the animal characters, where she also serves as the nurse. In two episodes, Elmyra's family is shown ...