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    Technically a type of sea slug, it floats on the surface upside-down, with its belly (or “foot”) and mouth facing toward the sky. It has the appearance of a tapered cross with six arms instead of two, each arm culminating in a burst of short radiating tentacles, cetera, which give the impression of feathered wings. Most of its body is a bright silvery blue, while a richer navy colors the two silver stripes that run down its center and the tips of its cetera. Its appearance, overall, has proven…

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    valves, then pushes it forcefully back out to move backwards. The fins in the top of the body are used to move forward during an attack. Speaking of attacks, they have 8 tentacles and 2 arms, both with suction cups on them. During the attack, the squid forms a cone shape while creeping up to their prey, then it opens the 8 tentacles with the 2 arms quickly coming out and grabbing the prey, with the suction cups for holding and gripping. These squids live in deep ocean waters, down to 3,000 feet…

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    Long Purple Teeth In the darkness, all I could see of the creature were its glowing tentacles, sparkling eyes, and long purple teeth. I stood unwillingly on the small patch of dead, faded grass, cornered by two walls. The walls, made of thick cement, began to feel like they were caving in on me. My eyes shifted to see what could have been a door behind the creature. It was the only way out. The eight-foot-tall creature stood hovering over me. It opened its mouth, revealing all of its gruesome…

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    Hydra Viridis Analysis

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    At the point when Trembley first watched Hydra viridis, he believed that they were plants and not animals on account of their appearance, green colour and immobility. Trembley at that point watched that the body withdrawals and relaxations and the movement of the body happens when the encompassing water was bothered. Their shape and colour still established a connection on Trembley, and he started to view them as extremely delicate plants. This influenced Trembley to cut the polyps and watched…

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    or how they give birth. Neither do we know how the young behave or which gender is the longest or heaviest. But it is better then how we knew the colossal squid in the 20th century. The only items of evidence scientists previously had were beaks, tentacles, and other parts of fallen colossal squids that were slowly digesting in the stomachs of sperm whales (one of the colossal squids predators) that had been beached and had died or previously captured and killed whales. This all changed in…

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    America Campaign Speech

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    grateful for the success on the attack against the sleeping ogre of the United States. Without the leadership of our beloved emperor and the efforts of the flowers of the Japanese soldiers, we would be under the perils of the United States' inky black tentacles right now. We were able to sink every single American Pacific carrier, no battleships were left behind. The Americans were greatly unprepared and were no match for our brave imperial forces. We attacked the beast with a preemptive strike.…

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    said, “the family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to” (Goodreads, 2017). Smith illustrates a significant picture: a family is an octopus which an individual will never really be let go of. While individuals believe they have cut ties with their family, their family members, experiences, relationships, and overall dynamics will forever touch them. Within the family tentacles, families are unique with their own systems,…

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    Introduction Mary Sibande was born in Mpumalanga in 1982, and currently lives and works in the city of Johannesburg. She is a fine arts graduate from the University of Johannesburg and received her B-Tech degree in fine art in 2009 . Gaining inspiration from South African Colonial and apartheid history Sibnade creates unique mixed media life size installations (13). She has a love for fashion and originally wanted to pursue a career in fashion design, which is evident I her elaborate costume…

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    local journalist, Henderson, and soon a crowd, including the narrator, gathers around the cylinder. The narrator suspects the object has come from Mars, but he does not think that it contains a living being. He and the crowd are shocked when grayish tentacles emerge from the cylinder. The crowd flees as the huge creature appears; it is the size of a bear, with a sheen like wet leather, two large, dark eyes, and a lipless mouth, heaving and pulsating. Just before the narrator runs away he catches…

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    Paper On Cestles

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    or four shallow bothridia. It cna be covered with minute microtriches. Four tentacles emerge from the apex of the scolex. These tentacles have a muscular bulb at its base and a retractor muscle originates at the base or in front of the bulb. When the retractor muscle contracts, it cause the tentacles to invaginate and results in the parasite detaching from the host tissue. When the bulb contracts, it causes the tentacles to protrude and dig into the host's intestinal wall. It also contains a…

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