Here's a bullet piercing an apple, an exploding bunch of roses, an x-ray of angel fish, a microscopic closeup of the proboscis of a hummingbird moth.
Microfilia eventually migrate into the bloodstream and are drawn into the proboscis of a mosquito when it bites the host.
The trunk, or proboscis, of the elephant is one of the most versatile organs to have evolved among mammals.
In a Hirst-esque glass tank, the proboscis of an industrial robot slowly traces the outline of a single stag's horn carved in wood.
He was happy to don the putty proboscis of the absurd, love-lorn hero in Franco Alfano's Cyrano, which he will sing next year at Covent Garden, because he approves of the man.
He would die by dehydration, or crushed in the beak of a bird, or chopped into pieces by the jaws of an enemy ant, or, less quickly, pierced by the bloodsucking proboscis of an assassin bug.
Swammerdam, meanwhile, focused on insect development, demonstrating to an astonished audience at Thévenot's academy that the wings, head and proboscis of a future butterfly could be seen inside a silkworm caterpillar, which he slit open with a scalpel.
The proboscis of this hawk moth is long enough to reach the nectar receptacle of the orchid, which is between 20 and 35 cm (8 and 14 inches) in length.
Plant viruses, however, have not evolved their own systems for injecting nucleic acids into host cells, and so they are transmitted by the proboscis of insects that feed on plants.
For example, a Madagascar orchid, Angraecum sesquipedale, with a nectar receptacle 20 to 35 cm (8 to 14 inches) long, depends for its pollination exclusively on the local race of a hawkmoth, Xanthopan morganii, which has a proboscis of 22.5 cm (9 inches).
There are few studies on the transport of liquid food in the proboscis of a liquid-feeding butterfly.
