• 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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  • Mr Sigai, 37, managed to escape with cuts to his back and hand, as pictured in the Daily Mail, by poking the creature in the eyes - which experts agree offers the only possible chance of fending off such an assault.

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  • While mini-Crandall is becoming increasingly fascinated by the furry creature sharing his home, Crandall says dog E.

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  • While watching a jellyfish at Boston's New England Aquarium, he was struck by how the creature used a muscle to pump its way through water, a mechanism similar to a beating heart.

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  • He and South African shark expert Craig Ferreira have teamed up with the crew of a Padstow fishing boat to search for a great white shark - the creature made infamous by the Hollywood blockbuster Jaws.

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  • In scientific terms, probably the most significant effect of the Sea Empress spill has been felt by a tiny creature known as the brooding cushion-star, or Asterina phylactica to those in the know.

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  • The mysterious creature was traced by a joint team from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Sri Lanka who conducted about 1, 000 nocturnal searches in mountain forest.

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  • Mr Carter (to whom Mr Dean talks regularly) seized the White House by presenting himself as a very different creature from the hapless president he later became.

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  • The tronador (whip) they carry and their masks emphasize this role, the latter characterized by accentuated noses that evoke the beak of the condor, creature that represents the spirit of the sacred mountains.

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  • Moreover, the creature is powered by four D-cell batteries in the main compartment, plus a pair of cells in each foot to keep the jive alive.

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  • Leveling up creatures gives significant stat boosts and access to potent new abilities, and is accomplished by sacrificing other creature cards into the one a player is interested in leveling up.

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  • But even by the standards of this group, the creature's size has astonished scientists.

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  • The portrait of the Brotherhood that emerges from her book is scarcely attractive but it is a weaker, more fractured thing than the sleekly dangerous creature depicted by Mr Vidino.

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  • The creature can vary the contrast of the lenses by controlling this fluid.

    ECONOMIST: REPORTS

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Microrefrigeration

  • The creature did not attack, but was scared off by his alarmed screaming.

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  • But in recent years knots of people often gathered there to watch an odder creature creeping, by feet and hands alone, across the high sheer face of boulder, buttress or cliff.

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  • Sophisticates and Wall Street's quantitative wizards hate the notion, but the stock market is a psychological creature driven as much by a manic-depressive pathology as it is by corporate earnings and economic indicators.

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  • Sophisticates and Wall Streets' quantitative wizards hate the notion, but the stock market is a psychological creature driven as much by a manic depressive pathology as it is by corporate earnings and economic indicators.

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  • First, there was just a blur some kind of creature shooting through the trees, a rushing shape silhouetted by the red fire beyond.

    NEWYORKER: Max at Sea

  • Mr Long is not worried by his encounter and says whatever the 'Beast' is, it is clearly a timid creature that shies from human contact.

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  • All those who saw us playing with the creature were immediately transfixed, be it due to nostalgia for Furbies gone by, or fascination with this strange new creature.

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  • The creature's partial skull was dug up last summer in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard by a Norwegian-led team.

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  • Second, Ari Rapkin, a computer graphics software engineer at ILM, introduces an amazing paradox: What the special-effects crews are doing is often not emulating physics but tweaking it--because storytelling is better served by showing the audience what it expects, not what would actually happen if a 3-foot-tall creature drew his light saber.

    FORBES

  • 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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