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  • Falling to earth as a cloud of spores, Hedorah hatched into millions of microscopic tadpole-like creatures which began to feed upon the toxins mankind had poisoned its air and water with.

    Godzilla Hedorah | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • The opening images of untold tons of garbage collected in the ocean sets an appropriately queasy tone; soon, multiple tadpole-like Hedorah monsters are born of the mineral waste, laying waste to ships at sea before merging together into a creature capable of coming ashore and, eventually, flight the parallels to basic evolutionary theory are amusing, but, alas, go relatively untapped.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • The opening images of untold tons of garbage collected in the ocean sets an appropriately queasy tone; soon, multiple tadpole-like Hedorah monsters are born of the mineral waste, laying waste to ships at sea before merging together into a creature capable of coming ashore and, eventually, flight the parallels to basic evolutionary theory are amusing, but, alas, go relatively untapped.

    Screening Log: Dirty Harry, Godzilla vs. Hedorah, Godzilla vs. Gigan and The Limits of Control 2009

  • ID creationists claims that all animal body plans developed in an implausibly short period of time in the Cambrian are refuted by this small tadpole-like ancestor.

    Steve Steve and end of the Cambrian Explosion as we know it (part 1) - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • A tadpole-like beastie similar to the chordate amphioxus.

    Steve Steve and end of the Cambrian Explosion as we know it (part 1) - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • We followed Ranunculus, who darted, appropriately tadpole-like, through the labyrinth of narrow squalid alleys which were his natural habitat, until at last we came to a corner where men were sitting, leaning against the wall, passing a jar of wine back and forth.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • We followed Ranunculus, who darted, appropriately tadpole-like, through the labyrinth of narrow squalid alleys which were his natural habitat, until at last we came to a corner where men were sitting, leaning against the wall, passing a jar of wine back and forth.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • One of them, with a big head, tadpole-like tail and generally frayed and sea-tattered appearance, is, in fact, accepted in some quarters as a ray, while the shovel-like skate is commonly regarded as a shark.

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • Abruptly, within the ichor-stained folds of the corpse's purple tunic, something stirred, then wriggled out tadpole-like across the ground, seeking to escape.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • Abruptly, within the ichor-stained folds of the corpse's purple tunic, something stirred, then wriggled out tadpole-like across the ground, seeking to escape.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

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