Sentence examples for bizarre anatomy from inspiring English sources

These days, molecular biologists, too, are falling under the spell of snakes, pursuing the secrets of their bizarre anatomy and powerful venoms.

Ever since the spindly-legged creature was first identified back in the 1970s, they've been baffled by its bizarre anatomy.

The reason largely revolves around the fact that a significant number of these early animal fossils have very unfamiliar, if not bizarre, anatomies, exhibiting a combination of characters not encountered in any extant phyla [1], [2].

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Most specimens are incomplete and flattened into two dimensions, and their anatomy is so bizarre that paleontologists sometimes disagree about which bones are which.

Is this a bizarre exploration of the human anatomy and nature, and evolution, a sort of timeline of the human race?

A less traditional guide is The Unfeathered Bird, by Katrina van Grouw (Princeton), a bizarre but irresistible examination of the anatomy of birds, which gives us genuinely new insights into the behaviour of living species.

By the end of her evening with the bones, Montross comes to see that "the most alarming moments of anatomy are not the bizarre, the unknown," the bones in the trunk.

Shelley Jackson's bizarre, often marvelous story collection, THE MELANCHOLY OF ANATOMY (Anchor, paper, $12), is a surreal satire of Robert Burton's classic "Anatomy of Melancholy," divided by headings -- Choleric," "Melancholic," "Phlegmatic" and "Sanguine" -- drawn from that eccentric 17th-century treatise on the four corporeal humors (among other subjects).

"I selected paintings, where the model's anatomy or face were really distorted, or bizarre," Borsi says.

Even more bizarre is the gradual draining of humor from his work; the anatomy of horror demands a tongue in the cheek to go with the baring of teeth, but much of "The Village" is a proud and sullen affair.