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The upper body is covered by a dark grey bony carapace of squarish scutes. In the mid part of the body, this carapace is divided into a series of ten to thirteen mobile rings, giving the animal some degree of flexibility. Although there are some bristly hairs around the margins of the scutes, the tail and underside of the animal are hairless.
Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden is a collection of obscene stories, with accompanying obscene poems. All sorts of sexual scenes are presented, some quite taboo, but the intent is less to sexually titillate the reader than it is to shock his or her sensibilities through extremes of filth.
Peltephilus, the horned armadillo, is an extinct genus of armadillo xenarthran mammals that first inhabited Argentina during the Oligocene epoch, and became extinct in the Miocene epoch. Notably, the scutes on its head were so developed that they formed horns. Aside from the horned gophers of North America, it is the only known fossorial horned ...
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Glyptodonts are an extinct clade of large, heavily armoured armadillos, reaching up to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in height, and maximum body masses of around 2 tonnes.They had short, deep skulls, a fused vertebral column, and a large bony carapace made up of hundreds of individual scutes.
A scute (/ s k j uː t / ⓘ) or scutum (Latin: scutum; plural: scuta "shield") is a bony external plate or scale overlaid with horn, as on the shell of a turtle, the skin of crocodilians, and the feet of birds.
Cover of the novel Zhuchun yuan, collection of the Fudan University. Zhuchun yuan (traditional Chinese: 駐春園; simplified Chinese: 驻春园), [a] also translated into English as Dwelling in Spring Garden [1] or The Garden of Spring Residence, [2] is a Chinese caizi jiaren romance novel from the 18th-century during the Qing dynasty.
"A Patch of Old Snow" "In the Home Stretch" "The Telephone Machine" "Meeting and Passing" "Hyla Brook" "The Oven Bird" "Bond and Free" "Birches" "Pea Brush" "Putting in the Seed" "A Time to Talk" "The Cow in Apple Time" "The Encounter" "Range-Finding" "The Hill Wife" "The Bonfire" "A Girl's Garden" "Locked Out" "The Last Word of a Blue Bird ...