Sentence examples for grasping prey from inspiring English sources

Their front legs often are thickened distinctly and sometimes spined for grasping prey.

The legs may be modified for leaping, burrowing, grasping prey, or swimming in various ways.

The front legs, when specialized for grasping prey, have tibia and tarsus adapted to fold tightly against a thickened femur.

The front legs are adapted for grasping prey; the hind pair is flat and oarlike adapted for swimming.

Both the beak and the antennae have four joints, and the front pair of legs is adapted for grasping prey.

Suchomimus sported a narrow skull with hooked teeth for grasping prey as well as a half-metre sail on its back.

This can pop out and grasp prey.

The teeth at the front of the jaw would have helped grasp prey, says Fitzgerald, while serrated edges on the back teeth sliced through flesh.

Features include limbs used for sensing, feeding, and swimming; a "furca," probably used to grasp prey and carrion; and a stout copulatory organ--the oldest penis in the fossil record.

Although larval teeth are shaped like pointed cones, the teeth of adults are adapted to enable them to readily grasp prey.

They are carnivorous, using their many grooved tentacles to grasp prey and pass it to their mouth, where a beak-like jaw tears it and passes it to the shredding radula.