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A beautiful poem about "a huddle of just-hatched geese," it surely evokes sighs at readings.
Chicken Spaghetti: 2009
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A beautiful poem about "a huddle of just-hatched geese," it surely evokes sighs at readings.
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USA Today says this about the upcoming documentary Babies, "If you were enraptured by just-hatched creatures of March of the Penguins, wait until you see Babies."
Joel Schwartzberg: "Babies" the Movie: Sure They're Cute, But What's the Point? 2010
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Paleontologist and snake expert Jason Head says that the snake, known as Sanajeh indicus, lacked the wipe-jaws needed to swallow eggs, but just-hatched baby titanosaurs would have been perfect prey for the 3.5 meter nearly 12 feet long serpent.
Archive 2010-02-28 Bill Crider 2010
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Like all members of the order in which they are classified, the Galliformes, or game birds, just-hatched baby chickens are astonishingly mature and mobile, able to walk, peck, and run only hours after leaving the egg.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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USA Today says this about the upcoming documentary Babies, "If you were enraptured by just-hatched creatures of March of the Penguins, wait until you see Babies."
Joel Schwartzberg: "Babies" the Movie: Sure They're Cute, But What's the Point? 2010
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During the warm, dark nights of July and August they mate, each RV exchanging genetic material, design codes, and license plate numbers with the other RVs, a mass breeding that will eventually send the next generation back east in a cavalcade of just-hatched SUVs.
jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2006
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The color of it must be spring green, impossible to describe until I see a just-hatched lizard sunning on a stone.
Bella Tuscany: Summary and book reviews of Bella Tuscany by Frances Mayes. 1999
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I think you will have to modify your belief about the difficulty of dispersal of land molluscs; I was interrupted when beginning to experimentise on the just-hatched young adhering to the feet of ground-roosting birds.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant
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I was interrupted when beginning to experimentise on the just-hatched young adhering to the feet of ground-roosting birds.
Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916
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