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A wheeled buffalo figurine—probably a children's toy—from Magna Graecia in archaic Greece [1]. Several organisms are capable of rolling locomotion. However, true wheels and propellers—despite their utility in human vehicles—do not play a significant role in the movement of living things (with the exception of the corkscrew-like flagella of many prokaryotes).
L. Frank Baum's 1907 children's novel Ozma of Oz features humanoid creatures with wheels instead of hands and feet, called Wheelers. [26] Their wheels are composed of keratin, which has been suggested by biologists as a means of avoiding nutrient and waste transfer problems with living wheels.
A lindworm may swallow its own tail, turning itself into a rolling wheel, to pursue fleeing humans (compare ouroboros and hoop snake). [1] The head of the 16th-century lindworm statue at Lindwurm Fountain (Lindwurmbrunnen ) in Klagenfurt, Austria, is modeled on the skull of a woolly rhinoceros found in a nearby quarry in 1335. It has been cited ...
The rotifers (/ ˈ r oʊ t ɪ f ər z /, from Latin rota 'wheel' and -fer 'bearing'), sometimes called wheel animals or wheel animalcules, [1] make up a phylum (Rotifera / r oʊ ˈ t ɪ f ər ə /) of microscopic and near-microscopic pseudocoelomate animals.
Kalavinka – a fantastical immortal creature in Buddhism, with a human head and a bird's torso and long flowing tail; Karura – divine creature with human torso and birdlike head; Kinnara – Half-bird musicians; Lamassu (Mesopotamian) – goddess with a human head, the body of a bull or a lion, and bird wings
Billionaire Elon Musk said on Thursday many federal government agencies must be eliminated as part of President Donald Trump's push to radically overhaul the U.S. government. The comments came as ...
More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, [7] that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. [8] [9] Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, [10] of which about 1.2 million have been documented and over 86 percent have not yet been described. [11]
Pat Sajak Courtesy of CBS Pat Sajak is ready to take his final spin as host of the long-running game show Wheel of Fortune. The host’s forthcoming farewell episode — which will double as the ...