"They had very elongated and sharp mouth parts," said the study's first author, Diying Huang, a paleontologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Nanjing.
This sharp mouth part, known as a siphon, may have allowed the fleas to penetrate the leathery skin of reptiles like dinosaurs, Dr. Huang said.
Seeing-predators would have suddenly needed rigid components to pursue, attack, and eat their prey (e.g., in limbs, jaws, and sharp mouth parts).
It inserts its stiletto-sharp mouth parts in the outer cells of leaves or evergreen needles and extracts the chlorophyll.
As for the performances, Simmons is a sinewy symphony of physicality, his muscular arms and poised fingers waving the drama onward apace, his endlessly expressive eyes alert and ablaze, his razor-sharp mouth playing the paper-cut dialogue like a demonic fiddle.
Black the taper, sharp their mouths in starlight, The sky with icy rootless flowers gauntly glows.
Time quickened, the air glowed, the colors of the day grew sharp; my mouth felt fresh.
Lemon sabayon, more of a lemon tart, was as tangy, sharp and mouth-puckery as I like it.
A massive stuffed crocodile, his family's clan totem, dominates one gallery, its teeth long and sharp, its mouth agape.
Whatever your projection, The Revenant's bear was mythic enough for illustrator and graphic designer Matt Lu to spend several weeks putting together this intricate patchwork rendition of the majestic creature, claws sharp and mouth agape.
