Sentence examples for robust limbs from inspiring English sources
It is characterized by small rounded ears, small eyes, short and robust limbs with five digits on each foot, and a white spot under the ears.
"The most surprising features include an unusually large and wide head, highly pigmented clusters of scales on the shoulders, robust limbs, patagiums (skin flaps) behind the hind limbs, and a highly pigmented cloaca".
For example, in both the hobbit and the cretins, the top of the upper arm bone is unusually straight and untwisted, and both have relatively thick or robust limbs.
These impressions show, when alive, they had smooth skin, robust limbs with webbed feet, and a ridge of skin on their undersides.
It had shorter and more robust limbs than the ruffed lemurs, and the fore- and hindlimbs were closer in length (intermembral index of approximately 97).
They had shorter, more robust limbs, heavily built axial skeletons (trunks), and large heads and are thought to have shared the common lemur trait of low basal metabolic rates, making them slow-moving.
Studies of ancient human skeletal remains frequently proceed from the assumption that individuals with robust limb bones and/or rugose, hypertrophic entheses can be inferred to have been highly physically active during life.
In both Experiments 1 and 2, subjects showed a robust limb-dependent difference in proprioceptive bias in the left-right direction.
In mammalian carnivores, having robust limb bones is thought to be an adaptation in order to resist axial and bending stresses [ 29] related to multiple activities such as moving excavated soil during digging (e.g., the European badger) or withstanding body weight loads generated during hunting in large cats [ 25, 29, 33, 36, 51, 52].
Scutellosaurus had small forelimbs and robust hind limbs indicative of a bipedal stance; however, some authorities maintain that its forearms were strong enough to support quadrupedal movement.
The robust hind limbs and hip region indicates the animal moved slowly.
