Sentence examples for eating tough from inspiring English sources

For cichlids are hardly coming up with new genetic solutions to eating tough snails as they each crank up the BMP4 or tinker with other toolkit genes.

Considering the number of teeth in each creature's mouth (Diplodocus, center and right), that means that the adults of these species lost a tooth's worth of material either through the normal wear and tear of eating tough vegetation or by actually shedding a tooth on average, every 1 or 2 days.

Cattle and horses, being heavy and large-footed, can trample and eat tough young trees that encroach on finer plants.

Because the teeth were always replaced, the animal could have used this mechanism throughout its life, and could eat tough plant material.

Parasaurolophus had uniquely formed jaws and thousands of rows of teeth perfectly adapted to eat tough, chewy pine cones, which they savored in their Cretaceous marshlands habitat as fossils attest.

Thus, primates that consume hard, brittle foods tend to have heavily pitted, complex microwear surface textures, whereas those that eat tough leaves or stems have more anisotropic surfaces dominated by long, parallel striations [8], [9].

You've eaten tougher saveloys than these ninnies.

By chewing, suminia would have been able to eat tougher parts of the plants and to digest its meals more quickly.

The extant baseline taxa represent two species known to consume, at least on occasion, hard objects (Cebus apella and Lophocebus albigena) and two that eat tougher foods including leaves and stems (Alouatta palliata and Trachypithecus cristata).

I moved on to examine a display of koala teeth, young versus old, the latter worn almost to nubbins by eating the tough leaves.

The fossil jaws and teeth that were found indicate that the bear was also able to eat very tough plant material; today's panda is the only living bear with these unique dietary habits.