Sentence examples for carapace shell from inspiring English sources

The fossilized carapace (shell) of a turtle from the Hell Creek formation of eastern Montana, USA; about 65 million years ago.

Down in the basement of the museum in the now-famous Zoology Dry Storeroom No. 1, McCarthy was going through some unlabeled specimens when he came across a small tortoise with its plastron (undercarriage) loosely wired to its carapace (shell).

Some crustaceans, mainly crabs, use sponges for camouflage by removing a piece of a living sponge and holding it against their carapace (shell); the best known example of this type of mutualistic association is that of the sponge Suberites domuncula and hermit crabs, which live in the shells of gastropod mollusks.

Isopods lack an obvious carapace (shell), which is reduced to a "cephalic shield" covering only the head.

I immediately confiscated the carapace (shell) with its gobs of elastic goodies inside, then cracking open the knuckles and legs to extract the sweet meat.

Sclerotin is found in the cuticle (external covering) and egg cases of insects, the body shell (carapace) of certain crustaceans, and the bristles of terrestrial and marine worms.

Notice whether or not the carapace (shell-like covering) is silver.

Countless species are found growing on everything from seagrass blades to turtle carapaces, clam shells to bare rock.

Fabrication of mineralized structures is a widespread phenomenon among living organisms (e.g., shells, carapaces, spines, spicules, bones and teeth).

Carapaces, yes, but the shells they live in are scavenged from sea snails, nautiluses, and other miscellaneous mollusks.

In addition to teeth, GIS-like feature extraction is applicable to many other objects that approximate 2.5D surfaces, both biological [turtle shells, beetle carapaces, mollusk shells, faces, bird beaks, insect eyes, skin wrinkling, joint surfaces, fish body shapes and footprints] and non-biological (land forms).