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No, no; it was no stroke that would let a man stand on his legs, like a horse between the shafts, and then walk off as soon as you can say "Gee!" But there might be such a thing as a man's soul being loose from his body, and going out and in, like a bird out of its nest and back; and that was how folks got over-wise, for they went to school in this shell-less state to those who could teach them more than their neighbours could learn with their five senses and the parson.

After millions of years of disinterested, shell-less floating and

There Was No Before (Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles)

The performances of laying hens including hen-day egg production, defective eggs (misshapen eggs, grosscracked, broken, softshell and shell-less eggs, excessively small or large eggs) and the number of dead birds were recorded by cage daily.

Effects of Declawed Males on Laying Performances, Egg Quality Characteristics and Feather Cover of Layer Breeders in the Mating Cage

In the study, the team used a unique platform it created -- a shell-less avian embryo -- to visualize the growth and spread of cancer cells in real time.

Putting the Brakes on Metastatic Cancer

But he's shell-less. He's a turtle without a shell.

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In short, productive performance including hen-day egg production, egg weight, egg mass, and broken and shell-less egg production rate was recorded daily.

Effect of superdosing phytase on productive performance and egg quality in laying hens

A video uploaded on YouTube by Wondering Channel Animal Fights on May 25 illustrated the step-by-step process, called shell-less culturing, an in-vitro fertilization method for chickens and ducks.

WATCH: Japanese HS students hatch egg outside its shell

Newborn, free-swimming, microscopic, shell-less, eyed larvae are quickly placed in a special warm tank in the hatchery to set on calcium carbonate or shell fragments that are crushed up primarily from surf clams.

Shell fishermen happy with bounty