But even by the standards of this group, the creature's size has astonished scientists.
The strange creature's arched, frownlike snout makes it look oddly different from other living whales.
And adaptation is not without costs: dealing with lower pH may divert a creature's resources from other ends.
The creature's partial skull was dug up last summer in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard by a Norwegian-led team.
The least cruel method is apparently to shine a torch in the creature's face and dispatch it with a high-powered rifle.
The muscular contraction creates vortices doughnut-shaped rings of water below the creature's body.
The eyes have lost the inlays of another unknown material that once were there, but they still glare, heightening the tension created by the creature's aggressive pose.
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Every few seconds, the creature's head or dorsal fin would poke through the murky waters, creating ripples and drawing murmurs from onlookers, who stood in the cold with cameras.
The creature's discovery has astounded scientists because their age puts them within two recognized groups of pterodactyls -- primitive long-tailed forms and advanced short-tail forms -- and they display characteristics of both.
Working in a two-man team, on opposite sides of the animal, packers sling a pair of manty-wrapped loads to the sides of a mule's aparejo and lay a 12-15-metre (40-50ft) lash rope gently across his creature's back.
If it is listed, campaigners will argue that anything that might impinge on the creature's habitat, such as recently announced plans for oil and gas exploration off the Alaskan coast, must either be cancelled or put under much more rigorous scrutiny.
On film Branagh cast him as Bardolph in Henry V (1989), as Stephen Fry's father in the comedy Peter's Friends (1992), Don Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing (1993), the blind grandfather - playing opposite Robert De Niro's Creature - in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994).
The little creature's also got four additional touch sensors, a temperature sensor, a gravity sensor and an internal clock to tell the time of day, improved motors, and basic voice recognition -- and the Hong Kong packaging suggests the dinos will even come in two different sexes.
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Apparently the microwavable pad housed a chemical substance (manufactured by ADEKA) not quite stable enough to handle the heat, sparking a lengthy list of of cases where the liquid erupted from its container and provided an uncomfortable surprise to the poor soul embracing the creature's volcanic warmth.
It's a creature of the U.S. Tax Code that can have no more than 75 shareholders.
He's a creature of habitual poses -- lips pursed in a smile that mocks mirth, eyes narrowed by a need to dominate, and, beneath it all, motives as opaque as the squid ink he requires for his drawings.
NPR's staff and friends pretend that NPR isn't such a big deal, that it's just one creature in the great forest of talk radio, which happens to be funded--but only fractionally--by the federal government.
It's impossible to have a creature that physical and spiritual size in your home and not have it leave a gaping wound when it's excised.
The mongoose-like creature has been called Durrell's vontsira (Salanoia durrelli) in honour of conservationist Gerald Durrell.
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In the loch's waters, a creature 21.3m (70ft) long and with three humps was said to have been spotted in 1870.
He was never a creature of the capital city's social scene, living in a spartan apartment in the city not far from the Supreme Court offices on Capitol Hill.
Mayar told deputies he got the creature to commemorate rapper Tupac Shakur's 1996 death.
Being a creature of Silicon Valley, it's a big deal to Google to be considered a "thought leader" and not a follower.
Director James Whale's adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel and Karloff's compassionate portrayal of a creature groping for identity make Frankenstein a timeless masterpiece.
Featuring legendary makeup artist Bud Westmore's brilliantly designed monster, Creature from the Black Lagoon is an enduring tribute to the imaginative genius of its Hollywood creators.
If it were not for this kick, the apparatus would be behaving just like Maxwell's Demon, a hypothetical creature (conceived of in the 19th century by James Clerk Maxwell) that could cause the spontaneous separation of hot and cold particles and thus do serious damage to some of the laws of physics.
Sam Worthington stars as a former Marine paralyzed from the waist down offered the chance to have a healthy body again by becoming an "avatar" -- a 10ft tall, blue-skinned creature genetically engineered to resemble the planet's humanoid life forms.
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