It's even home to some bizarre-looking Xoloitzcuintle dogs, a rare pre-Hispanic, hairless species.

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Chloe's was just past her hairline, so even after it faded, she'd be left with a large hairless section.

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These tiny, blind, hairless subterranean rodents live in social colonies of 100-300 animals in the harsh, semi-arid conditions of Africa.

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Next came a hairless cat my mother bought on Greene Street.

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Being hairless has become identified with the idealization of youthfulness, explains Professor Susan A. Basow, head of the psychology department at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa.

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We do not even know why we are relatively hairless or why we walk on two legs, so finding the origin of religious belief is a tall order.

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He had collapsed between wicker sofa and African coffee table, his legs hairless and white as wax, his stomach a great pale mound, and his face as pinched and pink as crab shell.

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One early-warning system: inserting rodents with depressed immune systems (known as "nude sentinels, " because they happen to be a hairless breed) into the general population of rodents--canaries in the coal mine, if you will.

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Julian felt a slight rush of panic as Obie opened his shirt wide to reveal a tattoo of a tailless dragon over his liver and one of a disarmed battleship across his hairless chest.

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The progress of his editions on our shelf was like a cartoon of evolution, a slug crawling from the surf to become a mammal, a monkey, and then at last a hairless noble fellow gazing into the future.

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