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"Tamirkhan's hind legs are long and slender with distinctive ankles, traits that are unmistakably zalambdalestoid," said study author Shawn Zack, a paleontologist at the University of Arizona.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Halfway to the trap, she stops, sits back on her hind legs and warily eyes the bowl of food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
He had lost 10% of his body weight and had several of his toes missing on a hind leg, which zoo officials said happened in the wild.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Sauropods were plant eaters, so rising onto their hind legs may have allowed them to reach vegetation high in trees that was unavailable to shorter animals.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
Our dog was on her hind legs, straining toward the dog run, whimpering.
From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee
"I'd like to issue former condolences to oliver stark, aisha hinds, angela bassett, and the rest of the 911 cast for having to work with ryan guzman," said another.
From Fox News ● Jun. 1, 2020
“Two hinds graze in our fallow garden,” she continues.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2020
Indeed, it was all around him here in the west Highlands, with herds of hinds and stags roaming the hills, and deer-stalkers in bloodstained tweeds riding by on their quad bikes.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2018
They are especially dangerous during the rutting season in autumn when stags and bucks will fight for the right to breed with the finest hinds.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2015
By the look of them it was a single deer, probably a buck: they don’t pick up their feet as high as hinds do, and Torak saw drag marks in the snow.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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