And the bedspread was no ordinary blanket but the boy's own dear Beastie, a flat headless creature of soft fur that loved him like a dog and tried to follow him out of the room whenever they took him away for some new test or procedure.
What do we make of "convergence" – while nature is endlessly inventive, why does it endlessly reinvent the same general forms and life-solutions in remarkably similar forms, such as the predilection for flat, armoured creatures, including trilobites and horseshoes?
To snare an arapaima, Meyers says, fishermen wait until one of the flat-snouted creatures comes up for air, then they toss a large hunk of meat near its mouth.
The leptocephalus (meaning "slim head") — a long, flat, transparent sea creature — was long thought to be a distinct species, until one was kept in captivity long enough to metamorphose into an eel; it was merely a larva.
These people often seem like flat Pirandello-esque creatures, moved about by the author as chess pieces in a mirror game played out between reality and art, the actual and the imagined.
It's a fundamental fact of calculus and non-Euclidean geometry, small sections of large curved surfaces will always look flat to little creatures that crawl upon it.
Bedbugs -- flat, reddish brown, wingless creatures -- are enjoying a feeding frenzy these days.
When the US astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explained how small sections of large curved surfaces will always appear flat to the little creatures that crawl upon it, his message was seen by some Flat Earthers as patronising and dismissive, Landrum said.
They are wingless creatures with flat bodies and six legs.
The creature had a long, flat head, likened by Brusatte to a toilet seat lined with thousands of tiny teeth.
