Much of its body is covered in prickly sensory hair-like structures called setae, researchers said.
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Lauren Liebhaber
September 8,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
Revenge wears a wry smile in this prickly comedy from Paul Weitz (the director of American Pie and About a Boy), as Fonda and Tomlin inhabit former best friends who reunite for a funeral.
There is nothing quite like the view from Monterey Bay—jagged coastline and evergreens framing a strip of blue.
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Beth Lew-Williams,
New Yorker,
13 Sep. 2025
Visitors will find themselves with jaws agape at the striking jagged mountain peaks, looming glaciers, and slick icebergs, all set to the backdrop of moody, misty weather—this is a photographer’s dream adventure.
One of the most poignant choices is to intercut scratchy film of the train that in 1921 transported the Unknown Soldier to Rome in a coffin draped with patriotic banners and flowers, to be enshrined in the Altar of the Fatherland with an eternal flame at the Vittorio Emanuele II monument.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
Now, people who don’t have a technical understanding, there might be bootlegs, but that is scratchy stuff with not very good sound.
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